Posted on 11/01/2004 4:31:37 PM PST by prfix
There is a substantial measure of skepticism in the air following Tribune Company's recent announcement that lower circulation numbers at the LA Times and Chicago Tribune are due to steep declines as opposed to the findings last June of inflated circulation at two other Tribune newspapers, The Hoy and Newsday.
The difference between steep declines and inflated circulation is important to advertisers.
Readers of the LA Times in particular will be wondering, is this just more media spin..... on the media?
The internet is the newspaper of record, by the way.
I wouldnt wipe my kerry with that rag.
The Belo Corp. had to admit two months ago or so, that the Dallas Morning News subscription numbers had been keep up by inflation, and the VP in charge of circulation had to resign. My bet is that his counterpart at the LAT had better be checking their employment section.
i suggest that a better suggestion would be to keep the free subscriptions and get as many people together with free subscriptions together and have a "paper burn". sure to gather some attention and the advertisers would get the hint....
The MSM isn't the mainstream anymore. So my tagline says...
they have been delivering newspapers to people who have cancelled them years ago!!!
Did you see their editorial today? It's terrible!!!
May God curse those people.
Why would anyone with a computer, read a newspaper? The freaking news is already old before you get it.
The present intense levels of media bias
are not just the tail end of post-JFK negativism, and
are not just the peak of the post-Vietnam arc of
collectivist infestation of the media, and
are not just the decline of print media vs. the internet, and
are not just the breakup of the legacy media monopoly by
alternative and emerging media ...
It's all of the above, happening all at once, and flowing
directly to the bottom line, and then to the paychecks.
A Kerry win is the only chance these propagandists have of
slowing their decline (via hoped-for legislation damaging
talk radio, the internet free speech and "media
conglomeration (aka Fox)).
A Bush win is a cataclysmic outcome. They can't handle it.
I expect Enron-class revelations in the near future.
Quit ANY leftist paper that you subscribe to. And when you do, tell them it is because they consistiently advocate political positions that take $$ out of your pocket. Cancelling their paper is your way of taking $$ out of THEIR pocket. Until their gross bias changes, you will not be back.
I did and I felt so good in doing so. They call back, they beg and plead and you get to tell them over and over again what you think of the leftist media and their socialist political positions.
Oh, I also tell the newspaper people who call that I hope they go out of business.
This tactic frequently results in loss of periodicals authorization with the USPS, and for a newspaper with any sense of pride this is a death knell.
I look forward to watching the entire Tribune combine, and their friends at USPS headquarters, go down in flames with this tactic. Postal Inspectors and Inspector General investigators, keep your eyes open for it!
"It's possible that the circulation is still a lot lower than is being reported. They could be letting the air out of the balloon slowly"
I think that's a good point.. there may be too much bad news to produce all at once.
I agree.. if you know anyone in California that has a subscription to the LA Times, you should urge them to cancel it. In the coming years, the FREEPER AMERICANS will get the playing field level by eliminating the leftist organizations that dominate our MSM. The LA Times is on our list. Don't let up. Don't forget. Even if we have a big win for Pres Bush tomorrow.. we have a war going on in this country from the new limousine liberal billionaires and their suck puppet mediums. Payback is necessary and important.
Sounds like they knocked out the whole keel.
I did this too and I can't tell you how many times they've called to ask me to subscribe since then. I do no tell them to remove me from their call list because every time they call me I get to tell them again what a liberal rag they (Cincinnati Enquirer) are!! I love doing that!!
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