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[novapsyche]

Reader's Digest to file for Chapter 11 protection -- As a barometer of the nation's economic health, this indicator is a horrible sign.

Obama disses marriage law as Justice defends it -- "President Barack Obama insisted Monday he still wants to scrap what he calls a discriminatory federal marriage law, even as his administration angered gay rights activists by defending the it [sic] in court." Sounds like Marriott owners sympathizing with a woman raped on its premises and suing the hotel even as its lawyers blame her for her own attack.

Comments

[guppiecat]

How is Reader's Digest a barometer of the nation's health?

Circulation rates have been down everywhere, and has hit the hardest on non-intellectual magazines and newspapers. I am unsurprised that Reader's Digest is impacted. I would expect the same of other periodicals that are high in fluff and low in content (TV Guide, People, etc). You can't make money turning trees into crap when crap is getting less valuable and trees more so.