[HangnJudge]

"They say Knight-Ridder doesn't have a plan. Actually they do, " Ferrick said in an interview. "They are going to jettison the old, shoot the young and … torture the survivors, which, come to think of it, seems to be an industrywide plan."

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-newspapers10oct10,0,2454830.story?coll=la-home-business

[R. Scott]

An industrywide circulation drop of 1.9% for the six months ended in March was one of the biggest in recent times and continued a fairly consistent two-decade decline. Daily newspaper circulation has fallen nearly 9 million from its 1984 peak of 63.3 million, while the U.S. population has grown by about 58 million. The country lost 306 daily papers, 17% of the total, between 1960 and last year.

“The association also presented information from Nielsen/NetRatings that showed the enormous audiences available online, including, for example, 12.8 million unique individuals who visited the New York Times Web pages in a recent month…” - which includes a lot of people like us who open a link, not to be educated by the Great NYT, but to see just how bad it has become. The bulk of the article shows that the publishers don’t have a clue as to why they are in a decline. They continue to curse the Internet, and continue trying to “educate” the ignorant masses about the joys of socialism and the evils of the USA and the Republican Party.