Postal Service Squeezing Small Magazines
 
Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2007 13:16:55 -0500 (CDT)


Postal Service Squeezing Small Magazines
Help FAIR
 
A postal rate increase scheduled to take effect on July 15 will raise the postage rate for FAIR's magazine Extra! by a whopping 12%. This increase, designed by Time Warner and supported by postal regulators, will only slightly increase postal rates for the largest publishers--and in some cases may actually decrease their postage costs.
 
Getting mad yet?
 
Next to printing, postage is already the most expensive item in Extra!'s budget, so this rate hike is a huge blow to FAIR and to the many other small, independent publications across the country. And since Extra! accepts no advertising we are dependent on you to help us offset this new cost.
 
FAIR's financial support comes from subscriptions to Extra! (40% of our
revenue) and by donations from thousands of supporters every year (another 40%). We've recently added a page on our website, "Financial Overview", showing the exact percentages of this support. You can see for yourself how critical this support is by visiting: http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=3063.
 
Your donations and subscriptions fund everything we do at FAIR: our renowned studies and reports, Action Alerts and Media Advisories, weekly broadcasts of CounterSpin, and the indispensable Extra!.
 
That means the more you can give, the more we can do to keep you informed of the latest outrages of the mainstream media. There are a number of ways you can support FAIR:

    * If you're not already a subscriber to Extra!--subscribe today and get the publication dedicated to progressive media criticism: http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=106.

    * Donate to FAIR to support an organization dedicated to giving you story behind the headlines and the soundbites: https://secure.democracyinaction.org/dia/organizations/fair/shop/shop.jsp?storefront_KEY=51.

 
From all of us here at FAIR--thank you for your support.
 
Sincerely,
Deborah Thomas
Publisher, FAIR/Extra!