« Americans do not want to be involved in politics | Main | Bank fraud by mortgage bank »

NYT readers are middle class


The median income of a NY Times subscriber in 2009 was $115k to $119k.

The aspirational positioning of their well educated readers may explain the appeal of newspaper stories about the guilt felt by benevolent yuppies when they have to lay off their nannies and housekeepers during the current financial crisis. Or how about this one, about the middle class keeping energy costs down on your vacation home.

TrackBack

TrackBack URL for this entry:
http://www.stylizedfacts.com/cgi-sys/cgiwrap/fotohof/managed-mt/mt-tb.cgi/6552

Post a comment

(If you haven't left a comment here before, you may need to be approved by the site owner before your comment will appear. Until then, it won't appear on the entry. Thanks for waiting.)