Vanity Fair breaks subscription record after Trump attack on Twitter
Source: The Hill
Vanity Fair magazine broke a record for subscriptions on the same day that President-elect Donald Trump blasted the magazine on Twitter, increasing subscribers a reported hundredfold.
The magazine had the highest number of subscriptions sold in a single day among Condé Nast publications on Thursday, the company told Folio Magazine.
Becky Peterson (@beckpeterson) December 16, 2016
The magazine put up a banner on its website following the criticism from Trump, calling itself the magazine Trump doesnt want you to read and encouraging readers to subscribe.
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Lucinda
(31,170 posts)ProudProgressiveNow
(6,129 posts)Hekate
(90,901 posts)Nwgirl503
(406 posts)see? it's working! he's making Vanity Fair great again!
Chimichurri
(2,911 posts)We need them now more than ever
leftyladyfrommo
(18,874 posts)NYT is doing well, too.
bucolic_frolic
(43,393 posts)I thought Trump attacked Twitter
It was actually a Trump Twitter attack on Vanity Fair
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)has been from local journalists who've known them all, and those who associate with them, for years. The New Yorker and New York Magazine also. If this surge of interest encourages Vanity Fair to continued extensive in-depth coverage, great...
Dark n Stormy Knight
(9,771 posts)Considering adding NYTimes or WaPo next.
bettyellen
(47,209 posts)The times is going to stay on my shit list a while longer.
WaPo and Newsweek are for me!
jumptheshadow
(3,269 posts)They often publish interesting and thought-provoking stories by good writers. The Annie Liebowitz photos are stellar, too. The magazine is well worth the money.
trof
(54,256 posts)niyad
(113,662 posts)let's see--VF gets a huge number of new subscribers. . . . . starbucks is being targeted by having pukes buy their coffee. . . . "hamilton" is being boycotted--sold out til next year sometime. .
boy, these pukes really know how to go after businesses, don't they?
NastyRiffraff
(12,448 posts)Love the magazine. They did reporting in the Bush years that few in the media would touch. The review of Trump Grill(e) was hilarious. I won't eat there myself, but I'll look around for people in the DC area who have.
mobeau69
(11,163 posts)"The ""Way Down, Big Trouble, Dead!"" Magazine Donald Trump Doesn't Want You To Read".
Makes a great last minute gift for those deplorables in your family.
raven mad
(4,940 posts)Haven't missed an issue since 1989!
moonscape
(4,674 posts)Danascot
(4,695 posts)but there is no subscription choice that doesn't involve getting physical magazines. I'll take just a digital membership or I'd just give them money for standing up.
bettyellen
(47,209 posts)Cha
(297,852 posts)Thanks bettyellen
P.S. hehe on your last post.