February 6,1959
From the archives Throughout 1999, Commonweal will be celebrnting its 75th anniversary. Here from the issue of February 6,1919, is an excerpl from "The Futurr of The Commonweal" by Edward...
...Much of the influence of this type of magazine is therefore indirect...
...inesiapable that the American journal of opinion occupies a less prominent place on the contemporary landscape than it occupied even as recently as the 1930s...
...This is one way in which quality of readership tends to compensate tor the lack of mass circulation...
...Edward S. SkilLin 7...
...It is...
...And those which are still publishing have had to give ground before the onslaughts of the digests, news magazines, and picture weeklies...
...Here from the issue of February 6,1919, is an excerpl from "The Futurr of The Commonweal" by Edward S. Skillin, long-time editor ami publisher...
...To begin with, there arc not nearly as many such periodicals...
...Among its most interested readers, those who regularly tend to weigh its views on vital issues, are public figures with large followings of their own- newspaper editors, syndicated columnists, radio commentators, professors, teachers, and others prominent in political life...
...All this is eminently true of The Commonweal....But, like other American journals of opinion, the magazine is confronted by persistent economic difficulties...
...More than ever before it would seem that the character of the journal of opinion, rather than the numerical extent of its readership, determines whatever importance it has on the American scene...
...Another is the great extent to which such journals are used in public and college libraries and other important centers of information, here and abroad...
Vol. 126 • February 1999 • No. 3
