Posted on 09/24/2016 3:37:31 AM PDT by V K Lee
Due to the one of the most asinine endorsements of the century, revenue has hit rock bottom for the Dallas Morning News as thousands of the Dallas newspaper subscribers are cancelling their subscriptions.
The moronic endorsement broke a 75-year streak in the paper’s history of endorsing Republicans, and generated a lot of reader pushback in the form of angry comments and vows to unsubscribe from the paper. Although Dallas is relatively liberal, the state hasn’t gone Democrat in a presidential election in 40 years.
On September 6th the Morning News foolishly announced that they were refusing to endorse Donald J. Trump for President in 2016. The board of the Dallas based newspaper has repeatedly ripped into Trump for what they claim is Trump’s “admiration” of Russian President Vladimir Putin and disavowal of trade deals like the Trans-Pacific Partnership, as well as national security ideas that the newspapers leadership claims “put sound bites over sound policy.”
The Dallas Morning News had previously endorsed every GOP nominee dating back to 1940. In 1964, it was neutral between Texan and incumbent Democratic President Lyndon B. Johnson and Republican Arizona Sen. Barry Goldwater.
Susan Bennett, a circulation manager for the Dallas Morning News told Get Off the Bs that, “It has been a madhouse here. We are having to work overtime to answer thousands of angry calls from subscribers, who are cancelling their subscriptions to our publication.”
According to Bennett, there has been no loyalty to their newspaper amongst their democratic leaning advertisers, who are “pulling” their advertisements due to the “catastrophic decline” in the newspapers daily subscribers.
The Dallas Morning News is a daily newspaper serving the Dallas–Fort Worth area of Texas, which at the start of September 2016 boasted 271,900 daily subscribers. It was founded on October 1, 1885, by Alfred Horatio Belo as a satellite publication of the Galveston Daily News, of Galveston, Texas.
Today circulation has fell below 134,000 daily subscribers, largely due to the newspapers asinine endorsement of Rotten Lying Hillary Clinton on September 7th, claiming that Trump is “unfit to serve as our nations next president.”
The recent demise of the Dallas Morning News, which was once one of the 20 largest paid newspaper circulations in the United States and which boasted nine Pulitzer awards, should come as no surprise to anyone with any brain cells still functioning because the whole nation has been witness to the demise of many of idiots who have foolishly attacked Trump.
Get Off The Bs humorously asked Mr. Trump if he found it counterproductive to destroy businesses and people who attack him, to which Donald replied, “Lacy, their all dishonest. What did I ever do to the Dallas Morning News? Trump will bring back jobs 100%.”
This is Brenda Corpian reporting for Get Off The Bs and with a message to the leadership team of the Dallas Morning News. I am laughing my ass off at you stupid pundits and will party likes it is 1999 again when your dishonest newspaper bytes the dust. Vote for Trump because voting for anyone else is just plain stupid!
“...at the start of September 2016 boasted 271,900 daily subscribers...Today circulation has fell below 134,000 daily subscribers...”
WOW! They’ve lost almost 140,000 subscribers in less than 3 weeks! That’s awesome!
I find it hard to believe this paper did not endorse Truman 1948. I didn’t know it sat out 1964; so it doesn’t have a Republican streak as far as it claims. It is also opposing Wayne Christian, the Republican nominee in 2016 for the Texas Railroad Commission.
May the NY Times suffer a similar fate.
We can only pray for such an end result. The people who own these media outlets must not only go out of business, they simply must be punished for trying to brainwash the American people for YEARS. Going out of business will not be enough. Liberals got me fired from SEVERAL public schools where I taught -- they deserve nothing less than unemployment themselves and a form of punishment as a warning to others to NEVER do that to someone again.
Someone suggested here on FR the other day that the newspaper was already in financial distress, and they were just doing this to come up with an excuse for why their readership was in the toilet.
With the exception of the New York Times, the Washington Post, and maybe a few other big-city rags in liberal enclaves, most people who read newspapers are probably voting for Trump. I say this because the Democrats have spent decades targeting their agenda to people who can't read anyway.
Good point.
Ha Ha.
I've fell, and can't get up.
If only it could happen to other deserving rags, like the NYT and the Compost.
Words have meaning, actions have consequences.
The Enquirer.
It used to be as conservative as a paper might get which is to say not very but still better than most.
You know the drill...they claimed to be ‘adapting to the marketplace’ and shrunk the paper down to cocktail napkin size while bringing in the usual assortment of swivel-eyed lefties they somehow believed would turn things around.
Cuban is too smart a businessman to pump money in a losing proposition
Most newspapers and magazines have long participated in an audited circulation measurement consortium even down to listing free office copies, copies ruined in the print process etc.
In the good old days it was a bit of a brag but it was also a signal to advertisers that their dollars were well spent.
Unfortunately for them those same audited figures aren’t so pretty now but they can’t necessarily keep them a secret.
Daily print newspapers will be dead and gone in a generation. Barely anyone under the age of 50 subscribes to a print newspaper.
I remember a time when the Sunday newspaper came and it was so thick you had to carry it with two hands and it took you most of the day to read through all of it.
The last editions I received, before cancelling altogether about six years ago were as thin as a weekly classified ad circular.
Carlos Slim.
I note the above grammar fail, and a couple of others in the article. I don't beat up on FReepers who use poor grammar, because they don't write for a living or a hobby, but this level of grammar fail is unacceptable for somebody who is a wanna be reporter, and really undercuts the credibility of whoever wrote this. IMHO
And I agree with your point - what is the source documentation for the writer's assertions?
The only newspapers that make money are the small circulation dailies.
Newspapers lies about their circulation big time.
They dump newspapers in hotels, airports, any public place for free and call it “circulation”.
If they get really desperate they dump the newspapers in dumpsters and call it “circulation”.
If you want to “strike back” contact their advertisers, claim the newspaper is lying about circulation, and demand that they do a telephone poll or other independent measure and not trust any other source to estimate real circulation.
That will get these newspapers biting the dust even quicker than their current trajectory to oblivion.
P.S. Don’t forget to remind the advertiser to sue the dirtbag newspaper to recover previously fraudulently obtained ad money.
Soros will jump in to save them :p
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