Power of Focus on the Family dwindling

[ck4829]

At the age of 71 and semi-retired from the day-to-day operations of his organization, James Dobson is seeing Focus on the Family's fortunes wane - CEO Jim Daly describes them as "flat" - perhaps an inevitability for a ministry pegged to one towering figure. The ministry's expenses have exceeded its revenues for two years - what Daly calls a "drawdown from reserves" - by $4.1 million in fiscal year 2006 and by $9.9 million in 2005. (Figures for 2007 have not yet been released.)

The ministry apparently has been "flat" for some time. For example, in 1994 Dobson's monthly newsletter had a circulation of 2.4 million copies. Today, that circulation is about 1.1 million. Also, in the 1990s, Dobson was drawing audiences of 15,000 or more to his speeches; but in the lead-up to the 2006 mid-term election, only about 1,000 people heard his anti-abortion speech at the 2,500-seat Mt. Rushmore National Monument amphitheatre.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20080125/us_time/isdobsonspoliticalcloutfading

[niyad]

1. ahhh gee....... me widdle heart will bweeeed when they are finally out of here.

their security guards are more heavily armed than the local police force.

[dkofos]

2. That is the best news I've heard in a long time.

Maybe there is a god.

[SpiralHawk]

3. "That's because Pluto is in the final degree of Sagittarius." - Ronald Regan's Dead Astrologer

"As every republicon occultist knows, Pluto moves into Capricorn tomorrow and stays there till 2024. So this merry news about Focus on Phny Values was to be HOPED for."

- Ronald Reagan's (R) Dead Astrologer

[AndyA]

4. See ya, you haven't done anyone any good.

Just a bunch of hypocrites and bigots.

[LeftinOH]

5. They need a new emotional wedge issue to get people riled up....

abortion and gays just don't 'fire up the flock' they way they used to.

[Tyler Durden]

6. Gee. Maybe there IS a God....