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So that makes them doners to Move On?

1% of Americans pay 40% of the income tax.
5% of Americans pay 60% of the income tax.
10% of Americans pay 70% of the income tax.

This accusation would hold water if Jake Tapper came up with a list of advertisers that paid substantially more than MoveOn for the same ad size, type, and positioning.

I purchased ad spots for 20 years and never paid over 50% of the published rate. It’s a typical closing ploy by ad sales people to tell prospects that they talked to their publisher and were able to get the advertiser over a 50% discount because they are so excited to have the advertiser’s business. Upon the next insertion, they always try to have a rate increase.

The discount is probably more related to the type of organization.  Nonprofit organizations such as moveon.org usually receive a discounted rate.  The NYT should probably explain how the rate was chosen, since it probably was based on a standard rate chart, and not given as a special favor to moveon.org…

I read somewhere else that this was a discount off of their political advocacy section of their rate card.

So it would be a discount, not a special rate.

So if they actually would have printed a Swift Boat Veterans ad what would they have charged?

1% of Americans pay 40% of the income tax.
5% of Americans pay 60% of the income tax.
10% of Americans pay 70% of the income tax.

I’m not an expert on election law, but it seems to me that unless NYT can document that they have offered substantially the same discount to conservative 527 groups (such as the Swift Boat Vets), then the discount would have to be reported to the FEC as a contribution to the MoveOn.org PAC, which actually sponsored the defamatory Petraeus ad.

Everyone knows that the NYT stopped being America’s newspaper long, long ago, and is now little more than a mouthpiece for the Democrat party.  Still, it would be amusing to have that fact documented by the Federal Election Commission and the Times Company’s 2007 corporate tax return.

“Capitalism is optimism monetized.”

It’s a typical closing ploy by ad sales people to tell prospects that they talked to their publisher and were able to get the advertiser over a 50% discount because they are so excited to have the advertiser’s business. Upon the next insertion, they always try to have a rate increase.

I used to know a prostitute who did exactly the same thing.  Come to think of it, there probably isn’t much difference between her and the NYT.  Except that she always managed to turn a handsome profit from being a whore.

“Capitalism is optimism monetized.”

Bat One:

I used to know a prostitute who did exactly the same thing.

That reminds me of a true story. A friend and I were in Chicago for a meeting, late a night many years ago, we were walking back from a bar (meal only, wink, wink)) to the hotel, we saw a prostitute propositioning a young guy in a business suit. Apparently, he wasn’t interested in making any purchases at that time, at which point the prostitute grabbed his crotch and held on to his hoohoo for three more blocks hoping to close the sale. I don’t know the outcome, but I admire a salesperson that is not willing to take no for an answer and has more direct sales technigues in mind to close the sale.

In keeping silent about evil, in burying it deep within us, so that it appears nowhere on the surface, we are implanting it, and it will rise up a thousandfold in the future.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn. The Gulag Archipelago

Neiman,

Thank you!  I enjoyed your little anecdote.  Of course, the New York Times has been famously unable to hold onto either its advertisers of its subscribers for quite a few years now, but your story does suggest another analogy… the federal government.  Think about it.

“Capitalism is optimism monetized.”

Neiman,

Thank you!  I enjoyed your little anecdote.  Of course, the New York Times has been famously unable to hold onto either its advertisers of its subscribers for quite a few years now, but your story does suggest another analogy… the federal government.  Think about it.

That is funny.

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At least the prostitute is honest about what she is - can’t say that about the Times.

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