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!
I think it was the Enquirer. They had the gall to claim that Trump was a “clear and present danger” to America. As if Soviet style justice and journalism were not!
Brenda should have stayed awake in 8th grade English.
Mark Cuban would be the most likely suspect. Perot Junior could do it, but I don't see him having the interest. Same with the Hunts that still have the big money.
The really big money in Dallas tends to be low profile.
As I recall, both the NY TIMES and dates Wash Post were bought by foreign billionaires that do not care about subscriptions/advertisers/profit...only the progressive agenda.
Perhaps they are, but good grief! Get it right.
I’m calling BS on this whole article. No way circulation has dropped by half in three weeks.
She also compares subscription numbers to total circulation. I suspect she doesn't know the difference.
I suspect she's lying about the daily subscriber numbers from the beginning of September: " at the start of September 2016 boasted 271,900 daily subscribers"
While I can't easily locate the 2016 numbers, I did find the numbers for 2013, that show DMN daily circulation (subscribers plus box and store sales plus free) for March, 2013 of 190,613. So she has a MASSIVE increase in circulation (circulation is always going to be higher than subscription for a print organ) over a period of 3.5 years when most papers have been losing readers. http://auditedmedia.com/news/blog/top-25-us-newspapers-for-march-2013.aspx
In addition to not knowing the difference between circulation and subscriptions, she also probably doesn't know how to read the numbers. The same 2013 report shows branded circulation of 409,265. But that includes the Spanish language Al Dia, the freebie throwaway Briefing, and the Denton paper.
I have no more tolerance for lying conservative reporters than I do for lying liberal reporters.
The Super , D’OH
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos -Washington Post.
There’s still the Fort Worth Star Telegram, the city next door.
I’m glad to see the financial impact of this, a 50% drop. It shows that despite the jokes of Dallas having become an eastern liberal city plopped on the plains, it isn’t as hard blue as many like to say it is.
Hih... we have a newspaper here? Ok.
The Dallas market will be hit with a wave of new waiters and waitresses from the BK DMN, Can the fast food market absorb this wave?
50% drop in less than a month??? WOW!
Not only are they losing subscribers, I suspect they have also lost hundreds of advertisers.
I seen what you done.
As Reagan said, "They never see the light, but they feel the heat."
Most of us understand the message and are not Grammar Nazis. The message was 100% accurate.
This WAS NOT a hard thing to predict for them.
All they had to do was look at where their subscriber base lives, and from there they can pretty much tell how they vote and what color skin they have.
If they had done that, they would have found that WHITE REPUBLICANS are their subscriber base, as blacks and Hispanics now, pretty much have their own (also corrupted) media sources.
But no, they didn’t do that...instead they were so hell-bent scared of Trump they threw their newspaper’s survival into the wind.
Serves them right!!
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