Rolling Stone put Barack Obama on the cover four times last year, yet the top selling copy was the one with the Jonas Brothers on the cover.

THE year 2008 wasn’t grim for magazine sales, but it was great for Barack Obama. Time featured the new president on its cover a staggering 13 times, while Newsweek put him on 11 times. “Obama has become a one-man stimulus media package,” author Michael Levine told Page Six. But some editors may have been motivated more by ideology than profit. Die-hard Democrat Jann Wenner put Obama on the cover of Rolling Stone four times last year, but the magazine’s best seller was its July 20 issue with the Jonas Brothers.

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