Down boy!
I have seen no explanation of why the Journal is down, rather than up. The Times is up, rather than down, because it is pursuing circulation outside the NY metropolitan area. For instance, the Times is available here, in the Blue Ridge Mountains. They CANNOT be making money on that effort. They have to be doing that to be able to tell their advertisers that their circulation has at least held constant.
Congressman Billybob
Latest column, " 'L.A. Chappaquiddick,' Starring Hillary Clinton."
LA Times....nice..
It's no secret why USA subscription is high. Check into virtually any hotel and USA is available "free". At most finer hotels, you can have the price of 50 cents deducted from your bill if you don't want the paper. You have to take the initiative. This leads me to believe USA has a corporate account and bills many tens of thousands of papers without most hotel guests even aware.
**19. St. Petersburg Times (Florida), 337,515, down 3.2 percent (a) **
I'm surprised the Miami Herald isn't bigger...or even the Sun Sentinel.
The Herald's is at 307,000.
Save trees - don't read newspapers.
Thanks for the info but I get my news either here or from "The Onion." ;)
the nyt owns the boston globe, so things are worse than it first appears.
usa today, corporations are starting to realize that usa today hasn't many "quality readers" = readers who buy the paper intending to read it.
many of usa today's papers go to hotels and motels and the recipients do not read the papers.
so, expect usa today's advertising to go down.
With the NYTimes only circulating 1.1mil in a metro area of at least 10 million, that's pretty sad.
Why do we even pay any attention to this archaic media?
Newspapers are todays equivalent of the 8-track.
I would think circulation figures would be down just anyway.
What was happening in spring 2004? The War in Iraq was meeting heavy casualties. The Democrats were settling on a nominee. The media was doing their best to try to lunch Rumsfeld, Bush or both.
And what's been happening this spring?
Well, nothing other than the Pope dying and a new one getting elected. The Schiavo case was probably deep but not an issue many watched closely. The Iraqi elections might have been a major story if they hadn't gone so well.
So, just from general interest, newspaper readership should be down even aside from the leftist bias, the ancient technology and waste of foresty resources, the dumbing down of our children so fewer even bother to read and the laziness of our press to feed us polls and puffery rather than hard news.
Los Angeles Times, 907,997, down 6.5 percent
And yet we keep posting newspaper articles here and commenting on them. But they really don't reach that many people.
Far better are the postings having to do with CNN etc. but they are going down too.
The Philly Inquirer continues it's relentless march downwards. Like the Philadelphia Phillies, the Inquirer demonstrates how to be a loser even when you're in the sixth biggest market in the US.
I thought that we read that the circulation was down on the NYT, but that profit was up, due to the sale of building or something.
I wonder which six months this is referring to. It seems strange to release figures for November to April.
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