Posted on 10/27/2009 7:38:59 AM PDT by AIM Freeper
Figures released yesterday showed that newspaper circulation is still in a freefall with no end in sight.
From the New York Times
The two-decade erosion in newspaper circulation is looking more like an avalanche, with figures released Monday showing weekday sales down more than 10 percent since last year, depressed by rising Internet readership, price increases, the recession and papers intentionally shedding unprofitable circulation.
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Hmmm - the conservative Wall Street Journal is doing OK.
Giant pages, 9 columns, 8 point type, actual writing by intellectual non-pressitutes individuals, etc., sigh.
And the MSM thinks that we are out of touch.
Less garbage to dispose of - this has to be good for the environment!!!
I dumped the Hartford Courant two years ago.
I dumped it because the “news” section was all leftist opinion pieces, the opinion pages was 5 leftist columns for every one right column.
Occasionally some news would make it to the news section, but it was always something that I’d read on the FreeRepublic 3-4 days earlier.
After a while even the sports page and comix began to lean left, except Dilbert. Bascically, I was getting the newspaper so I could read Dilbert. Wasn’t worth the expense.
I don’t miss it.
bump
A neighbor who is moving soon came over the other day to ask if we could save up old newspapers for a week or so to give them some to use for packing and wrapping things they are moving. I had to explain that we dropped the Palm Beach Post many months ago - and no longer have to take the newspaper recycling bin out. It’s not exactly a habit you miss.
The only market left is the one populated by people like my 81 year old father who will not touch a computer.
As always, to the industry that has continually stuck its thumb in the eye of its supposed customers, I say...
Die you egg-sucking pigs!
OBamBam and the Demonkats will try to pass a bill to bail out the state-run newspapers, be assured.
Yep, the WSJ passed “USA Today” in circulation, and now has the greatest circulation of any newspaper in the U.S., with more than double the circulation of the NYT. The Journal even eked out a slight circulation increase, while most of the rest of the biggies had double-digit declines.
As the voice of the NY Slimes continues to rapidly fade, the national broadcast networks will soon not know what stories they should feature on their news shows. Soon, they’ll have to turn to the WSJ, the Internet, and, gasp, Fox News Channel to figure out what to do. Or perhaps they’ll just go with an all-Obama-press-release-format, which wouldn’t be that much of a change from now, anyway. Naturally, they’ll never start to think for themselves; they’ve depended on The Slimes for their brain for so long, they’re like the Scarecrow in the “Wizard of Oz” before The Wizard awarded him a fake diploma: no brain.
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