{"id":1909015,"date":"2023-04-03T04:43:37","date_gmt":"2023-04-03T08:43:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/author-james-patterson-blasts-ny-times-for-manipulating-their-best-seller-list\/"},"modified":"2023-04-03T04:45:58","modified_gmt":"2023-04-03T08:45:58","slug":"author-james-patterson-blasts-ny-times-for-manipulating-their-best-seller-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/author-james-patterson-blasts-ny-times-for-manipulating-their-best-seller-list\/","title":{"rendered":"Author James Patterson Blasts NY Times for Manipulating Their Best Seller List"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fauthor-james-patterson-blasts-ny-times-for-manipulating-their-best-seller-list%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1909015&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><br \/>\n<section class=\"post-body\">\n<p>Popular author James Patterson has called out <em>The New York Times<\/em> (NYT) for allegedly manipulating their Best Seller List.<\/p>\n<div class=\"my-4\">\n<div id=\"div-gpt-300x250_4\" class=\"gpt-ad ad-250 text-center\" data-google-query-id=\"CKXVsYGpjf4CFd0DaAgd9FcPaw\">\n<div id=\"google_ads_iframe_\/6177\/redstate\/articles\/300x250_4_0__container__\" style=\"border: 0pt none;\"><iframe id=\"google_ads_iframe_\/6177\/redstate\/articles\/300x250_4_0\" name=\"google_ads_iframe_\/6177\/redstate\/articles\/300x250_4_0\" title=\"3rd party ad content\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\" role=\"region\" aria-label=\"Advertisement\" tabindex=\"0\" sandbox=\"allow-forms allow-pointer-lock allow-popups allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox allow-same-origin allow-scripts allow-top-navigation-by-user-activation allow-presentation\" style=\"border: 0px; vertical-align: bottom;\" data-load-complete=\"true\" data-google-container-id=\"2\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"thm-piano-mop\"><\/div>\n<p>The Best Seller List is highly coveted by authors, and they dream of making it on the list. Most would assume that the list is based on the number of copies sold. However, Patterson noticed that a recent best seller did not make the list, and this made him wonder how the list is compiled.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>What\u2019s up with @NYTimes best seller lists? Anybody besides me notice that @MikePompeo\u2019s book sold more copies than 6 titles on today\u2019s list?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>After Patterson noticed that his book, <em>Walk the Blue Line<\/em>, a collection of real-life stories from police officers across the US, was placed below other lower-selling titles, he contacted NYT to inquire how they determine their list. He was not happy with the answer he received. The Times informed his publishing company that their list ranks based on &#8220;raw sales.&#8221; Patterson was concerned that his book, which humanizes police officers, was not highlighted by the Times.<\/p>\n<p>Feeling aggrieved, Patterson proceeded to write a letter to the NYT editor, complaining about the issue. However, the paper declined to publish his letter. He, therefore, posted the letter on social media instead.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>As a reader of the newspaper, I know mistakes are sometimes made. And that you have an admirably thorough and public process for correcting \u2013 and drawing attention to, and working past \u2013 your mistakes. I also know that this spirit of self-criticism and getting-it-right is too often absent from your bestseller lists.<\/p>\n<p>The fact is that you regularly publish\u00a0lists that say a book sold better, or worse, than another even when it\u2019s probably wrong.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m asking you to please cut it out. We live in a world where truth and accuracy are under frequent fire. This may be a narrow trade industry concern, but this lack of journalistic rigor also redounds to the reputation of what I has always believed is the most truth-loving, influential news outlet in the world.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"my-4\">\n<div id=\"div-gpt-300x250_5\" class=\"gpt-ad ad-250 text-center\">\n            <script type=\"text\/javascript\">googletag.cmd.push(function () {googletag.display(\"div-gpt-300x250_5\");});<\/script>\n        <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Publishing house Regnery cut its ties with <em>The New York Times<\/em> Best Sellers List in 2017, alleging that the list had been &#8220;rigged&#8221; for years.<\/p>\n<h6><em>The opinions expressed by contributors are their own and do not necessarily represent the views of <a href=\"http:\/\/redstate.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">RedState.com.<\/a><\/em><\/h6>\n<div class=\"thm-p \n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bestselling author James Patterson has penned a letter to The New York Times (NYT) excoriating them for \u201ccooking the books\u201d of their famed New York Times Best Seller List. Most people are familiar with the Best Seller list. It is a coveted and illustrious honor to make that list, and every author dreams of having<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1909016,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[12730,3675,5334,5594,13824,23418,23417,4126],"class_list":["post-1909015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report","tag-author","tag-blasts","tag-james","tag-list","tag-manipulating","tag-patterson","tag-seller","tag-times"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1909015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1909015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1909015\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1909016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1909015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1909015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1909015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}