Wired Magazine in financial trouble - Merck paid for this????

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October 21, 2009

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October 21, 2009 at 10:38 AM

I read this and all I can think of is the Merck memo calling a jihad out

for all disinters of Vioxx, " destroy them where they live "

Vioxx revenue hit $2.5 billion in 2003, and was one of Merck's biggest

drugs. The six month period ending in June of 2009 Merck took in a

billion dollars in vaccine revenues.

http://biz./e/090803/mrk10-q.html This means the vaccine

business for Merck alone, is a 2 billion dollar a year business.

Merck's advertising budget is roughly 1 billion dollars.

http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-122879099.html Magazines: $125.4

million, Newspaper: $13.6 million, TV: $212.2 million and Internet: $24.5

million.

http://www.fiercepharma.com/special-reports/merck-top-13-advertising-budgets

Exactly how much money is there to destroy those who threaten those

billions in revenue? How much would it take to have an article such as

the one in Wired published? A million? Remember the game we all played

when we were kids, what would you do for a million dollars? Would you

kill someone? Obviously some people kill for the thrill but most of us

drew the line at murder, but I remember a friend of mine said he'd do it

if he wasn't going to get caught. He could live with himself as long as

no one knew about it.

A million dollars.

" The magazine has lost 50 percent of its ad pages so far this year,

ranking among the worst off of the more than 150 monthly magazines

measured by Media Industry Newsletter. Only Portfolio, which Condé Nast

shut down last month, and Power and Motoryacht fared worse.

That leaves Mr. , who makes his living promoting big ideas,

trying to come up with one big enough to reinvigorate Wired’s

business. "

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/18/business/media/18wired.html?pagewanted=all

Mittman, Wired’s publisher said that he thought that the March

issue, with just 38 advertising pages, was the bottom. He was adding new

advertisers in liquor and home furnishings to make up for the pullback in

business advertisers, he said. Asked how he would make up the remainder,

Mr. Mittman smiled. “I dunno. I mean, pray?” he said.

Remember the Australasian Journal of Bone and Joint Medicine, which was

published by Exerpta Medica, a division of scientific publishing

juggernaut Elsevier? Remember how it touted Vioxx and Fosamax? Remember

Elsevier acknowledged that Merck had sponsored (paid for) the

publication, but did not disclose the amount the drug company paid. In a

statement emailed to The Scientist, Elsevier said that the company

" does not today consider a compilation of reprinted articles a

'Journal'. "

" A million dollars, as long as I don't get caught. "

Sheri Nakken, R.N., MA, Hahnemannian

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