Hate Sells

Ann Althouse suggests that liberal magazine sales are down now that Obama is in office.  From what I understand, that's not exactly surprising; the conventional wisdom around here is that political magazines do best when their party is out of power.  On the other hand, there is this recession on, and I don't know that conservative magazines have seen their circulation rise.  Personally, I just decided not to renew our subscription to Harper's, not because it's run out of anti-Bush hate, but because I've been reading it less and less.  On the other hand, I guess you could argue that Bush hatred infused the magazine with an energy that it's now lost.