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16,000 respectively, whereas mainstream weekly magazines, as shown below,
are radically higher.73

Table 1.4

Corporate Weekly Magazines

Name Circulation
Time 4,026,000
Newsweek 3,118,000
US. News & World Report 2,035,000

The most prominent of Progressive-Left monthly magazines retain far smaller
circulations than do corporate weekly newsmagazines, as indicated below:74

Table 1.5

Progressive-Left Monthly Magazines

Name Circulation

The Progressive 65,887
Multinational Monitor 4,753
Z Magazine 18,000
Extra! 2 1,000
International Socialist 7,500
Review

Even when added together, five of the most prominent progressive magazines
listed in the table above total just over 100,000 readers a month, which equals
only 6 percent of the total weekly circulation US. News & World Report, the
smallest of the three major corporate magazines. In short, the preoccupation
with the negative effects of corporate media propaganda is well merited, given
the extreme lopsidedness between corporate and Progressive-Left media markets
in terms of their access to, and influence over, the public.