PREDICTION: More Sarah Palin on This Week’s Celebrity Weeklies
Yes. There were four celebrity magazines featuring Sarah Palin last week, including People, OK, Us Weekly, and The National Enquirer.
But guess what! She’s not going away anytime soon.
Look for one of the weeklies to cover Sarah Palin and go with…
US Weekly’s Janice Min Defends Controversial Sarah Palin Cover
Janice Min, the editor of Us Weekly, argued that politicians were fair game:
“This is an election where personality is getting sold, oftentimes far ahead of platform, and that personal interest in the candidates has definitely crossed over into the pop-culture arena,” Min said in the New York Times. “I think that after so many years where people decried the interest in celebrity as a distraction from real issues, I’ve definitely noticed the worlds converging.”
UPDATE: US Weekly Losses NOT SO BAD
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Earlier today there were reports stating that Us Weekly had lost as many as 10,000 subscribers due to its Sarah Palin cover.
A well-placed source at Us Weekly tells Huffington Post that since Wednesday, there have actually been a little more than 1,000 cancellations. This, however, has been evened out by the 1,000 bonus subscriptions from supporters of the magazine.
Us Weekly Losing Subscribers Over Palin Issue: Should Us Press the Panic Button?
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Us Weekly has been receiving a ton of heat over its Sarah Palin cover (above.)
MSNBC is reporting that the magazine has lost thousands of subscribers in just the first 24 hours following the printing of the issue.
“I’m hearing it’s 5,000, maybe more,” says one well-placed source in the industry. Another source claimed that as many as 10,000 readers have already cancelled their subscriptions. A spokesperson for Wenner Media, which publishes Us, says “it is completely false that we are losing 10,000 subscribers.” As for the 5,000 estimate, the spokesperson only said “that is false, too,” but wouldn’t comment further.
Should Us Weekly be panicking over these types of reports?
Us Weekly Cover Story Writer Admits She’s Voting for McCain
Did US Magazine Go Too Far in Attacking Sarah Palin?
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Us Weekly released the harshest cover attacking Republican VP candidate Sarah Palin.
The question is did they go too far?
Leave your thoughts in the comment section!
And make the jump to see the other celebrity weeklies.
Us Weekly’s Scandalous Sarah Palin’s Cover: Maybe Being the Governor of Alaska Wasn’t so Bad?
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Yesterday, CoverAwards shared with you exclusively OK! Magazine’s double cover featuring Sarah Palin and Barack Obama.
Today we see yet another celebrity weekly covering the biggest story of the week - Sarah Palins and her world of drama.
Unlike OK! Magazine, Us Weekly pulls NO punches.
She gets the full celebrity weekly carwash.
In fact - it’s one of those expensive car washes - like the deluxe?!? Look at the main line.
Babies, Lies and Scandal. That pretty much sums it up.
Plus - Us does a good job in highlighting the major points of interest in the upper right dek, e.g. daughter’s pregnancy, controversy over firing her sister’s ex-husband, and the mag even promises more surprises!
Do you think Sarah’s starting to rethink this whole VP thing?
