[HN Gopher] The persistence of the Saturday Evening Post (2021)
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       The persistence of the Saturday Evening Post (2021)
        
       Author : benbreen
       Score  : 16 points
       Date   : 2023-07-23 19:24 UTC (1 days ago)
        
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       | AlbertCory wrote:
       | "the staff had to generate extra editorial material to wrap
       | around all the ads."
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       | If you get newspapers.com and look at the LA Times in the 70's,
       | this is evident: many pages with one inch of article text at the
       | top of a page full of ads, and the article goes on for 10-20
       | pages or more.
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       | I picture the city editor making the "pulling taffy" gesture at
       | his staff to get more words out of them :)
        
       | jmclnx wrote:
       | From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Saturday_Evening_Post
       | 
       | I did not know it was till in print so did a search.
       | 
       | >Garrett became editorial writer-in-chief and criticized the
       | Roosevelt administration's support of the United Kingdom and
       | efforts to prepare to enter what became the Second World War, and
       | allegedly showed some support for Adolf Hitler in some of his
       | editorials
       | 
       | Did not know this, it said this may have cost it readers after
       | WWII.
        
         | ghaff wrote:
         | I had no idea. And circulation isn't bad: 350,000.
        
         | xhkkffbf wrote:
         | If we put aside the complexity of WWII, I think it's almost
         | certain a fact that many readers died during the war. Of course
         | pacifism or isolationism didn't work because the Axis powers
         | attacked the US etc etc. But if your focus is soley on
         | preserving readership, keeping them home and out of harms way
         | is one way to accomplish it. At least for a bit.
        
           | ghaff wrote:
           | I'm pretty sure you don't need to invoke that chain of
           | reasoning. Helping out the UK was quite unpopular in the US
           | and Churchill got quite frustrated with Roosevelt about the
           | latter's hesitancy to provide assistance as a result. That
           | the editor of a popular magazine might honestly share that
           | take is unsurprising.
           | 
           | And, yes, hesitancy to get involved could shade into
           | Germany's not that bad fairly easily by way of justification.
        
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