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Social media. i think thats helped them. it also helped "the new yorker." whenever donald trump attacks an outlet, the subscription numbers increase significantly. one interesting thing thats changed, the newspapers used to be a business of circulation figures and advertising revenue. that business is dying, and both these outlets are in the business now of collecting digital subscriptions. they want people to pay. >> its interesting. so much about the big advertisers in the past now more consum...

And never once have we seen them forced to apologize or say hey, maybe we crossed the line here. of course they do it for hillary clinton. leland: note worthy though, it was the people getting angry at vanity fair are the people vanity fair care about. all the liberal celebrities that they cover and that they do stories about. those are the ones who are tweeting about it. and suddenly you have that from vanity fair. brian brian there will be a great deal. get more subscriptions equal opportunity...

Brian: brian they are posing as sexist for telling her to take up knitting. maybe you georges-hunt go after someone who was vanquished and lost. the thing was rigged or the russians played a role. vanity fair got all this backlash considering for the most part just jumping all over president trump. i find this astounding. his lives i find it funny. its pretty good. leland: people burning their vanity fair magazines and saying they were going to cancel their subscriptions it shows you what the ou...

And human services secretary tom price following his use of private planes. and the withdrawal of president trumps drug czar nominee. >> there was an explosive report by "60 minutes" and "the washington post." >> readership and subscriptions way up in 2017 as investigative reporting held the powerful to account. number 2 is donald trump versus the media, still. we wondered if the new president would tone down his attacks on the fourth estate. but no. >> you are fake news. >> soon after taking of...

That caused the largest number of canceled subscriptions in the history of the magazine, which i was very proud of. >> [ chuckles ] what was his writing like? >> its always been extremely step by step logical. if you can read a column by charles about something and you can still disagree with him after youre through with it, then you know you must have a pretty good argument. >> [ chuckles ] those arguments had conservative columnists like william f. buckley wondering why krauthammer and the new...

That caused the largest number of canceled subscriptions in the history of the magazine, which i was very proud of. >> [ chuckles ] what was his writing like? >> its always been extremely step by step logical. if you can read a column by charles about something and you can still disagree with him after youre through with it, then you know you must have a pretty good argument. >> [ chuckles ] those arguments had conservative columnists like william f. buckley wondering why krauthammer and the new...

Excoriating the nuclear freeze that caused the largest number of canceled subscriptions in the history of the magazine, which i was very proud of. >> [ chuckles ] what was his writing like? >> its always been extremely step by step logical. if you can read a column by charles about something and you can still disagree with him after youre through with it, then you know you must have a pretty good argument. >> [ chuckles ] those arguments had conservative columnists like william f. buckley wonder...

Buy docs or goats or chickens, cows come, cows coming to people in third world countries come especially farmers, people who really rely on these animals for their agriculture and livelihood. and you can. you can give that on behalf of someone you love and make that their president, which is a little bit more meaningful than perhaps just donating to a charity. thats a little more personality. lea: that is donating through world vision.org, where you can donate money for medicine and other things...

Increase in subscriptions. you know cable news ratings are way higher than they were last year because of trump. >> it is just a good thing. >> its a bad thing. >> okay. >> for him, its a bad thing. >> what about for us? >> i think the value the media can have is providing context of the tweets. there is times that white house aides will tell me trump has tweeted things to create distractions or story lines to misdirect the media. and i think the media should not chase the tweets without saying,...

He was struggling at first but his ratings have seen increases and improvements. he is programming for the ratings and what he is seeing works. hes going to get that in the segment of the population and eventually theyre going to get a little bored. they will have to come up with a new shtick. his funniest stuff was when he was, "daily show," comedy central. >> jesse: probably the carryover audience he is looking for. >> dana: is there a market for it? there is money in all things president trum...