"The Nation" subscriptions surging

[LiviaOlivia]

August 17, 2005
Subscription Battles and John Bolton
http://www.thewashingtonnote.com/archives/000904.html

I was stunned to learn this weekend that subscriptions to The Nation are surging. And while it's not precipitous, TWN has been told that subscriptions to the New Republic are falling.

It seems that The Nation has become the more credible "alternative view" political journal as of late -- and while I wouldn't count TNR out, the pro-Iraq War position of the magazine seems to have taken a toll on readership.

In the foreign policy arena, TNR has moved -- sometimes dramatically -- to the right, where the journalistic space is crowded, and perhaps The Nation has absorbed part of the Bush-frustrated centrists while maintaining its liberal base.

One person involved with The Nation told me this weekend in an off-handed chuckle, "realism has become the new liberal foreign policy ideology."

~snip~