4 thoughts on “Young subscribers flock to old media Shunning Trump, the millennial generation does what it once resisted: pay for news”
"[T] he New Yorker, for instance, has seen its number of new millennial subscribers more than double from over the same period a year earlier. According to the magazine's figures, it has 106 percent more new subscribers in the 18-34 age range and 129 percent more from 25-34."
Something missing from these, uh…statistics. Something like actual numbers.
The real problem with Millenials is that they seem to make editors lose their minds.
The numbers depress them. Percentages can help them fool themselves into thinking there's more than there are! 106% sounds much better than "went from 50 to 103."
I had one customer that always pretended to be gone when I came to collect. I finally stopped delivering, they complained to the circulation department, and I got fired. Capitalism sucked then, and it sucks now. They knew, even back then, that information should be free. At my expense.
"[T] he New Yorker, for instance, has seen its number of new millennial subscribers more than double from over the same period a year earlier. According to the magazine's figures, it has 106 percent more new subscribers in the 18-34 age range and 129 percent more from 25-34."
Something missing from these, uh…statistics. Something like actual numbers.
The real problem with Millenials is that they seem to make editors lose their minds.
The numbers depress them. Percentages can help them fool themselves into thinking there's more than there are! 106% sounds much better than "went from 50 to 103."
Exactly.
I had one customer that always pretended to be gone when I came to collect. I finally stopped delivering, they complained to the circulation department, and I got fired. Capitalism sucked then, and it sucks now. They knew, even back then, that information should be free. At my expense.