The Briefing Room
General Category => National/Breaking News => Topic started by: 240B on December 17, 2014, 10:28:29 am
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By Jaime Fuller (http://www.washingtonpost.com/people/jaime-fuller) December 16 at 3:20 PM
In June, Hillary Rodham Clinton appeared (http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2014/06/04/hillary-clinton-lands-her-16th-people-magazine-cover/) on the cover of People magazine for the first time in more than a decade. Real people, not the magazine, talked about what the article might mean for 2016. They talked (http://thecolbertreport.cc.com/videos/q8dzb2/the-drudge-report-on-hillary-clinton-s--walker-) about people talking about whether Clinton was using a walker (She still wasn't).
What they didn't do was buy the magazine. According to a report from AdWeek on Monday, the June 16 issue of People featuring the former first lady and senator was the magazine's (http://www.adweek.com/news-gallery/press/best-and-worst-celebrity-weekly-covers-2014-161939)worst selling of 2014 with 503,890 copies sold. The magazine's best-selling issue --1,169,800 copies -- was the one featuring Robin Williams after his death in late August. (more at link)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2014/12/16/people-magazines-worst-selling-issue-this-year-the-one-with-hillary-clinton-on-the-cover/ (http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2014/12/16/people-magazines-worst-selling-issue-this-year-the-one-with-hillary-clinton-on-the-cover/)
It is, of course, not at all unusual that this happened. It is, however, unusual that it would be reported in America's Pravda style media. Looks like Hillary is on the outs with the 'powers that be' who make the spin in America.