POSTAL HIKES COULD DRIVE ALTERNATIVE JOURNALS OUT OF BUSINESS

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STOP THE POSTAL HIKES - A key House Subcommittee will look into the
devastating impact of new postal rate hikes on independent publications,
including some of the country's most important political journals.  In
March 2007, the Postal Board of Governors, the body that regulates
postal policy in the United States, voted to drastically hike postal
rates on small and independent periodicals. The new rates -- which are
based on a proposal submitted by Time Warner -- unfairly shift the
burden of postal costs from magazines like Time and People with large
circulations and heavy advertising onto smaller publications.

"The impact of the new postal rate increase on the flow of ideas and
opinions in America is likely to be significant," said Victor Navasky,
chairman of the Columbia Journalism Review and publisher emeritus of The
Nation. "Precisely those magazines that devote the most space to public
affairs -- to covering in-depth events like the hearings today -- are
being put in serious jeopardy."

http://www.StopPostalRateHikes.com

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