On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 10:04:25PM -0600, Neil Johnson wrote: > Just saw this banner ad at wired.com (They must be real hard up for revenue). > > The text of the ad: > > SHOWDOWN: IRAQ -> IS THIS THE SIGN OF END TIMES ? > Find out from Tim LaHaye and other end time scholars ! > Subscribe to the "Left Behind" Prophecy Club !
Well, Wired News (my former employer) is owned by Terra Lycos, whose U.S. entity is Lycos Inc. in Waltham, Mass. As of when I was there, Lycos had no dedicated sales staff for Wired News, so it's entirely likely that you saw an ad purchase for run-of-U.S.-sites or something similar. My point is only don't conclude that Wired News is that hard up for revenue. They're still around. If they were losing tons of money (they got very high CPM rates), I suspect WN would have been eliminated in one of the rounds of Terra Lycos layoffs in the last few years, including one as recently as last month. -Declan
