Posted on 10/09/2009 6:04:36 PM PDT by BradtotheBone
NEW YORK (AP) - USA Today is expecting to report a 17 percent decline in circulation. That would be its largest drop ever.
While most large newspapers are struggling to keep print subscribers and newsstand sales, USA Today is also being slammed by the slump in travel. Many of the newspaper's sales come in hotels and airports.
USA Today's publisher, David Hunke (pronounced HUNK'-ee), told staff about the circulation plunge in a memo Friday. From April through September, the average daily circulation at the Gannett Co.-owned newspaper was 1.88 million. That amounted to 398,000 fewer copies than in the same period of 2008.
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I’m overcome with tears.
I’ve noticed that even in airports, people are getting their news from their Blackberry or iPhone.
The newspaper should be happy. Ecology. Less cutting to trees. Its a great thing.
But I wonder how the WSJ is doing.
I buy the USA Today on Tuesday for the high school sports. The columnists are like watching ESPN...bleeding heart liberals.
I’m overcome with tears.
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I have IBS just from the sheer stress of it all! Deary me!
Every day I read my brother at least one of their headlines that we laugh over. The paper has become a joke just like everything else in the MSM.
WSJ is the only paper I read! Love it..subscribe!
USAToday is written at a 6th grade level...that’s most of Govt educated Americans...and guess what???They don’t read newspapers!ha/.HA!
That’s right they’re going green. Isn’t it great and more trees. Makes up for the trees lost in the california fires and the cause, environmentalist.
I think WSJ is holding up better but I dumped shortly after Hussein was elected. Murdoch hired more liberal writers, WSJ was always pro amnesty and Taranto makes fun of birthers. I have zero tolerance anymore.
Forbes got dumped too because they have a column by one of Obama’s closest advisors and funders. Forbes helped make him rich and he is a lousy money manager. He was a key early fund raiser for Obama so Forbes helped get him elected.
USA Today is the newspaper that gets slipped under my hotel door whenever I travel on business. Other than that, I’ve never seen the newspaper anywhere else.
USA Today went radical Left wing. It started off pretty popular trying to appeal to the middle of the road in America. Not for long and now it is following it’s comrades into the gutter.
Watch the dems try to bail our their new propaganda centers when they try and push through the next “stimulous”.
‘WE SUCK IN THE USA’
Women and Minorities hardest hit
More up to the minute.
More accurate.
Less bias.
That would indicate that in the declining economy liberal morons (who would tend to buy USA Today) no longer have the spare change to buy a newspaper written with the written and sold for the sole purpose of reinforcing their ignorance.
Boo.
Hoo.
Now, if they can only get rid of the CNN screens at every freeking airport.
Every hotel I’ve stayed in has given a free USAT every morning. I bet if they excluded those sales, their numbers would be near zero.
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