NY Times kicks (conservative) political books off its Bestseller List
Looks like the New York Times - with its readership dwindling year after year - decided to kick out those pesky political books off its famous NYT Bestsellers List. There is no truth to the rumor that this was because the only political books that could make the bestsellers list, were conservative ones - seems that no one wants to buy the liberal books. Nope, that had nothing to do with it. The Times is kicking ALL political books off, not just the conservative ones, can't you see?
Sort of the way that, back in the 1800s, the North-dominated Congress kept passing huge taxes on items like sorghum, rice, and cotton, some up to 50% of sale value. In obediance to the Constitution, these taxes were applied equally across the country, north AND south. The fact that the vast bulk of those crops were grown in the South, had nothing to do with it, nope, nothing at all.
This was one of the main causes of the Civil War, second to slavery. If there had been no slavery, this might have been enough by itself to trigger secession and the resulting war... but now we'll never know.
Now the New York Times, in its lofty ignorance, seems destined to repeat history.
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NY TIMES DISSES FOX NEWS AUTHORS - BEST SELLERS LIST IS NOW POLITICIZED: CONSERVATIVES NEED NOT APPLY
By DICK MORRIS & EILEEN MCGANN
March 16, 2011
It's been widely reported that Bill Keller, the Executive Editor of The New York Times, doesn't like Fox News - and has utter contempt for its conservative audience. He makes no bones about it. According to Keller, those who watch FoxNews are "among the most cynical people on planet Earth."
Now it turns out that he doesn't like books written by FoxNews contributors. So on Sunday -for the first time since the New York Times Bestsellers List first appeared in 1942, best selling political books will not appear in the Hardcover Non-Fiction List. Instead, those books will be relegated to the Advice, How-To and Miscellaneous List, along with The 4 Hour Body and Weight Watchers New Cookbook.
That is if the author is a FoxNews contributor.
Talk about giving cynicism a new meaning!
On Sunday, the following books will appear on the Advice list:
2. Simple Government, Mike Huckabee
3. Revolt!, Dick Morris & Eileen McGann
6. Win, Frank Luntz
What do those authors have in common? Just one thing: Huckabee, Morris, &Luntz are all FoxNews contributors. (McGann is just a cynical FoxNews watcher!)
Last week, the Wall Street Journal listed Simple Government as #3 and Revolt! As #5 bestselling non-fiction books in the country (including Advice books!). That was based on Nielsen point-of-sale data. But, that was too much for The Times - two FoxNews contributors in the top 10 of all non-fiction books sold. So, The Times decided to cook the list.
By the way, the Advice List was started in 1984 because too many how-to books were showing up on the Hardcover Non-Fiction Best Sellers List.
Apparently, too many Fox News Contributors are crowding up the hardcover best seller list, so they've been thrown downstairs.
The ghettoization of the Foxnews books inside the How To list has an important impact on sales. It means that many stores won't put Revolt!, Simple Government, and Win up front with the best sellers but will assign them shelf space back with cookbooks, marital advice, and diet books. We hope you ferret them out anyway and show the Times the limits of its power.
The New York Times is once again showing its liberal bias in overtly politicizing the best sellers list. Conservatives and FoxNews commentators need not apply. Now, it's not just the news that's way over left, it's the best sellers, too.
And the motto of The Times is "All the News That's Fit To Print." Talk about cynical.
(Full text of the article can be read at the above URL)
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