You ever notice how, when eating cheerios (or fruit loops) and there are only a few left, they cling together for safety? It's a last gasp effort for survival in the face of impending doom
I was reminded of that when reading this email:
From: "DLC Admin"
Date: July 26, 2006 1:56:38 PM PDT
To: undisclosed-recipients:;
Subject: The New Republic Digital Compliments of the DLC
Dear Friend of the DLC,
We want you to know about an exciting new partnership we've formed with The New Republic. As a result, we're able to offer you a free one-year subscription to The New Republic Digital.
In our years of providing our friends with political analysis and policy prescriptions, we've never offered outside products or promotions, but this deal seemed like a reasonable way to share the intellectual landscape with one of our favorite magazines.
Hilarious. Deseprate to give its product away for free, TNR may have found one of the few organizations in worse shape than they are.