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An industrywide circulation drop of 1.9% for the six months ended in March was one of the biggest in recent times and continued a fairly consistent two-decade decline. Daily newspaper circulation has fallen nearly 9 million from its 1984 peak of 63.3 million, while the U.S. population has grown by about 58 million. The country lost 306 daily papers, 17% of the total, between 1960 and last year.

“The association also presented information from Nielsen/NetRatings that showed the enormous audiences available online, including, for example, 12.8 million unique individuals who visited the New York Times Web pages in a recent month…” - which includes a lot of people like us who open a link, not to be educated by the Great NYT, but to see just how bad it has become. The bulk of the article shows that the publishers don’t have a clue as to why they are in a decline. They continue to curse the Internet, and continue trying to “educate” the ignorant masses about the joys of socialism and the evils of the USA and the Republican Party.

MediaPost Article IT'S OFFICIAL: 2005 WILL BE the newspaper industry's worst year since the last ad industry recession. And things aren't looking much better for next year either, according to a top Wall Street firm's report on newspaper publishing. "Sadly, 2005 is shaping up as the industry's worst year from a revenue growth perspective since the recession impacted 2001-2002 period," says the report from Goldman Sachs, adding a warning that meaningful growth in 2006 is "very unlikely."