Special-interest publications should realize that if they are attracting enough advertising and readers to make a profit, the interest is not so special.
Interpretation
Profitability indicates a broader appeal than claimed special interest.
Fran Lebowitz highlights the irony in the concept of 'special-interest' publications by pointing out that if such publications are profitable through advertising and readership, their niche appeal may not be as unique or specialized as they suggest. This commentary invites reflection on the nature of interest and profit in media, suggesting that true 'special interests' may often struggle to find significant financial backing.
In practice
In a discussion about media's role in society.
Your responsibility as a parent is not as great as you might imagine. You need not supply the world with the next conqueror of disease or major motion picture star. If your child simply grows up to be someone who does not use the word "collectible" as a noun, you can consider yourself an unqualified success.
You should make it hard on yourself to write so youβre easier to read.
I place a high moral value on the way people behave. I find it repellent to have a lot, and to behave with anything other than courtesy in the old sense of the word - politeness of the heart, a gentleness of the spirit.
I must take issue with the term 'a mere child,' for it has been my invariable experience that the company of a mere child is infinitely preferable to that of a mere adult.
Original thought is like original sin: both happened before you were born to people you could not have possibly met.
I never took hallucinogenic drugs because I never wanted my consciousness expanded one unnecessary iota.
If you can see your path laid out in front of you step by step, you know it's not your path. Your own path you make with every step you take. That's why it's your path.
A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.
God destines us for an end beyond the grasp of reason.
The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.
Liberty is not to be enjoyed, indeed it cannot exist, without the habits of just subordination; it consists, not so much in removing all restraint from the orderly, as in imposing it on the violent.
I believe in American exceptionalism, just as I suspect that the Brits believe in British exceptionalism and the Greeks believe in Greek exceptionalism.
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