Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Catrike Ryder Newsgroups: rec.bicycles.tech Subject: Re: Major Taylor Date: Fri, 30 May 2025 19:25:17 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 88 Message-ID: <9ffk3k1lf8fuktfd8ns7qnmq2tq1m2lpfq@4ax.com> References: <101aggt$210q$1@dont-email.me> <0kgj3kpss9h9tqjico1ulldtv1ki2hdvdh@4ax.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Sat, 31 May 2025 01:25:19 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="ec98f458f8ac2a553e8b31de6cd63207"; logging-data="780749"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX196jqE56wYhc7JC7AIO3Lhw3hFgj8MTrj0=" User-Agent: ForteAgent/8.00.32.1272 Cancel-Lock: sha1:ymAGLVD26tK5ZOM2/d7TIW8n350= Bytes: 4741 On Fri, 30 May 2025 16:14:50 -0700, Jeff Liebermann wrote: >On Fri, 30 May 2025 18:34:34 -0400, Catrike Ryder > wrote: > >>On Fri, 30 May 2025 15:24:57 -0700, Jeff Liebermann >>wrote: >> >>>On Fri, 30 May 2025 12:15:03 -0400, Catrike Ryder >>> wrote: >>> >>>>On Fri, 30 May 2025 07:46:24 -0700, Jeff Liebermann >>>>wrote: >>>> >>>>>On Fri, 30 May 2025 09:59:05 -0400, Catrike Ryder >>>>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>>On Fri, 30 May 2025 09:47:36 -0400, Catrike Ryder >>>>>> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>>On Fri, 30 May 2025 06:25:00 -0700, Jeff Liebermann >>>>>>>wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>>>On Fri, 30 May 2025 06:18:01 -0400, Catrike Ryder >>>>>>>> wrote: >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>On Thu, 29 May 2025 16:36:45 -0400, Frank Krygowski >>>>>>>>> wrote: >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>Major Taylor made the cover of The New Yorker magazine. >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cover-story/cover-story-2025-06-02 >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>He deserves more recognition than he commonly gets. >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>An article in an obscure paywalled leftist magazine isn't going to get >>>>>>>>>him much recognition. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>Not really "obscure": >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>"The New Yorker with its 1.23 million subscribers..." >>>>>>> >>>>>>>In the USA, they're rated as 21st, after The American Legion Magazine >>>>>>>and American Rifleman, both of which are also obscure.. >>>>>>> >>>>>>>Actually, all magazines are obscure, nowdays. >>>>> >>>>>>Sorry, forgot the cite; >>>>>>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_magazines_by_circulation >>>>> >>>>>The Wikipedia circulation list is only up to date to 2016. See the >>>>>"This article has multiple issues" box near the top of the page. >>>>> >>>>>This list seems a little better: >>>>>"Top 100 U.S. Magazines by Circulation" >>>>> >>>>>The New Yorker is 88 out of 100. Not great, but hardly obscure. >>>> >>>>A million and a half subscribers in a USA population of 3.5 million, >>>>and some of them are in other countries. >>> >>>You're off by factor of 100. The US population for 2025 is about 347 >>>million. >>> >> >>Yeah, I know. That makes the subscription rate even less impressive. > >The largest magazine distribution in the USA: > >is "AARP The Magazine" at 23.7 million per issue. By issue, that can >be per week, per month, per year, quarterly, annual, etc. >"The following list shows the 100 largest magazines in the United >States by paid circulation as of 31 December 2023 based on data from >the Alliance for Audited Media". > >3.5 million is smaller than 23.7 million, but hardly "obscure". > >You might also notice that "AARP The Magazine" and "The New Yorker" >address different audiences with different number of prospective >readers. It seems that obscurity is a subjective evaluation. I think the NYer is obscure. You disagree. I'm OK with that. -- C'est bon Soloman