{"id":36620,"date":"2019-07-20T10:50:16","date_gmt":"2019-07-20T14:50:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=36620"},"modified":"2019-07-20T10:50:16","modified_gmt":"2019-07-20T14:50:16","slug":"i-suspect-that-this-is-not-the-first-time-this-has-been-done","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=36620","title":{"rendered":"I Suspect That This Is Not The First Time This Has Been Done"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Thursday The Federalist<\/a> posted an article about The New York Times best seller list. It seems that the list is not as straight forward as it should be.<\/p>\n

The article reports:<\/p>\n

The New York Times fudged book sales data<\/a> in order to deny top-five billing to the best-selling \u201cJustice on Trial<\/a>,\u201d the definitive and deeply reported account of the nomination and confirmation of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, which was written by Carrie Severino and Mollie Hemingway, a Senior Editor for The Federalist. Industry sales figures show that the New York Times ignored actual data<\/a> on nationwide sales in order to depress the rankings not just for the Hemingway\/Severino book, but also Mark Levin\u2019s latest book on the corruption of modern journalism.<\/strong><\/p>\n

According to Publisher\u2019s Weekly, the only public source of point-of-sale data on book sales, \u201cJustice on Trial,\u201d was the top-selling non-fiction book published over the last week. Tara Westover\u2019s blockbuster memoir \u201cEducated\u201d was the top-selling non-fiction overall according to data from NPD Bookscan, but is excluded from Publisher\u2019s Weekly\u2019s list since it was first published over a year ago.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Mark Levin\u2019s \u201cUnfreedom of the Press\u201d came in at #2 on the best-selling list, followed by David McCullough\u2019s \u201cThe Pioneers\u201d at #3, \u201cThree Women\u201d by Lisa Taddeo at #4, and Michelle Obama\u2019s \u201cBecoming\u201d at #5. Hemingway\u2019s and Severino\u2019s book outsold each of those books placed ahead of it on the New York Times list, according to nationwide sales data<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Amazon.com, the online retail giant, reported that \u201cJustice on Trial\u201d was also the top-selling non-fiction book on its site last week. It was Amazon\u2019s top-selling book overall, non-fiction or otherwise, from Monday through Friday of last week.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The New York Times, however, reported a very different ranking at complete odds with the Publisher\u2019s Weekly\/NPD Bookscan sales figures<\/a>. Instead of accurately reporting that \u201cJustice on Trial\u201d was the second best-selling hardcover non-fiction book in America last week according to widely accepted industry sales data, the New York Times put the book at #6 on its list, behind Mark Levin\u2019s book at #5. Neither ranking can be justified by actual sales figures.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The article concludes:<\/p>\n

Rather than collecting nationwide data on book sales across all platforms and locations, the New York Times reportedly surveys only select retailers, the identities of which the paper refuses to disclose.<\/strong><\/p>\n

In a 2007 column, former public editor Clark Hoyt all but admitted that the New York Times Best Seller list was fake news.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The list \u201cis not a completely accurate barometer of what the reading public is buying,\u201d Hoyt wrote<\/a>. \u201cFor my money, if the main list is a best sellers list, it ought to reflect what\u2019s selling best.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

So I guess The New York Times best seller list is about as accurate as the rest of their reporting.<\/p>\n

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