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Newspaper Circulation Plummets
New York Times ^ | 10-27-09 | Don Irvine

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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TOPICS: Politics
KEYWORDS: bailout; msm; newpaperbailout

1 posted on 10/27/2009 7:38:59 AM PDT by AIM Freeper
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To: AIM Freeper

Hmmm - the conservative Wall Street Journal is doing OK.


2 posted on 10/27/2009 7:41:42 AM PDT by 2banana (My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
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To: AIM Freeper
One of the reasons I love old movies is to see how actual newspapers used to look like.

Giant pages, 9 columns, 8 point type, actual writing by intellectual non-pressitutes individuals, etc., sigh.

3 posted on 10/27/2009 7:43:05 AM PDT by norraad ("What light!">Blues Brothers)
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To: 2banana
The conservative WSJ is doing OK -- and Fox News is number one in the nation.

And the MSM thinks that we are out of touch.

4 posted on 10/27/2009 7:45:42 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (Play the Race Card -- lose the game.)
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To: AIM Freeper

Less garbage to dispose of - this has to be good for the environment!!!


5 posted on 10/27/2009 7:46:32 AM PDT by sodpoodle (Never give up- Keep Up!!!)
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To: 2banana
Investors Business Daily seems to be doing OK. Could be that people buy newspapers for NEWS rather than the latest in leftist opinion.
6 posted on 10/27/2009 7:47:25 AM PDT by YankeeReb
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To: AIM Freeper

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.


7 posted on 10/27/2009 7:53:56 AM PDT by kidd (Obama: The triumph of hope over evidence)
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To: AIM Freeper

bump


8 posted on 10/27/2009 8:07:51 AM PDT by VOA
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To: VOA

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!


9 posted on 10/27/2009 8:27:49 AM PDT by Wally_Kalbacken
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To: AIM Freeper

OBamBam and the Demonkats will try to pass a bill to bail out the state-run newspapers, be assured.


10 posted on 10/27/2009 8:55:12 AM PDT by Babu
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To: 2banana

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.


11 posted on 10/27/2009 9:53:10 AM PDT by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Made from The Right Stuff)
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