Who is the Listener listening to?

• all_your_base
• 16 years ago
• Categories: articles
• Tags: critic, finlay mcdonald, listener

Here’s an interesting piece from Otago University student magazine, Critic – “Who is the Listener listening to”:

Substance does not always equate to sales. [Editor] Stirling admits that during the 2005 election, their eight ‘political covers’ bombed. Yet there are perennial features that seem bigger sellers than others, and one of the Listener’s eternal stalwarts is house prices. [Former editor] Finlay Macdonald confesses: ‘I was talking to a friend the other night about the ultimate Listener cover. We decided it would be ‘Do House Prices Make You Look Fat?’ We would have to put something about NCEA in the by-line too – just to be safe.’

(Hat-tip: PM (no, not her))