Is there ever a time when you feel the content of your publication hurts your ability to develop your audience the way you want?

As an Audience Development professional, is there ever a time when you want or need to give feedback as to the content of your publication?

I read an article today that made me wonder how many times Audience Development managers get feedback from their audience as to specific content they want to get from the publication. Is that something that is regularly captured and relayed to anyone?

Or am I just a noob who is asking a noob question? :)