Magazine Eyeballs Its Subscribers

No_Weak_Heart writes "Talk about 'know your customers' -- the NY Times has an interesting article about Reason Magazine's upcoming June issue. Each of the print magazine's 40,000 subscribers will receive a copy of the mag with their name and a satellite photo of their home on the cover!" Although described as a "cover stunt", the magazine's editor "said that the parlor trick could have profound implications as database and printing capabilities grow."

Comments

Re:slow news day?

[Ryan Amos]

Sadly, Fox News is no longer "niche" press. They're just as mainstream as CNN, CBS, etc. Which is fucking scary as the mythical "liberal bias" no longer exists (and hasn't really since the Carter administration) to counteract the extreme conservative bias on Fox News. I should probably start learning the words to "O Canada."

FOX Will Misreport the Story

[Anonymous Coward]

Fox News will break a story like this and "force" the more mainstream media outlets (CNN, CBS, etc) to carry a story. At least this time it would presumably be doing some good.

Except FOX will most likely misreport the story so badly that it will sound like Reason magazine is surveilling it's subscribers.

Anyone remember the story about the teacher and the baby rabbits that FOX (Chicago) misreported? Fox News reported that a school teacher asked the children in her class to bury some baby rabbits alive since no one wanted them. When they refused, she did it in front of them. Well, it turns out that the real story was the babies were rejected by the mother and were already dying. The teacher also didn't bury them alive.

Re:"Libertarians" are dominant faction in GOP.

[MsGeek]

Bullshit. The Republicans have been pretty much taken over by the Religious Right and the pro-war Neo-Conservatives. The Libertarian wing is pretty much an endangered species. Most of them have died out, like Barry Goldwater, some of them migrated to, yes, the Libertarian Party, and the rest of them...well, there's John McCain and there's...who else? [shrug]

The Heritage Foundation is not a Libertarian organization, it's a Religious Right organization. You must have them confused with the Cato Foundation which is the parent of Reason Magazine.

Oh well indeed.