[Raycpa]

Are these quarterly decreases or annual?

[Raycpa]

Sunday dropped 3.1% to 49,394,406.

If its like the Hartford Courant, the drop may actually be larger. The courant has started to issue a sunday paper on saturday, calling it an early addition. This will mask circulation figures.

Also the Courant offers a package deal for one weekly paper free along with reduced sunday paper.

[Fruitbat]

Gosh, I'm all choked up with sorrow for these rags.

[Spruce]

The Star Tribune in Minneapolis lost a bit in daily, down 0.2% to 374,528. Sunday the paper took a hit, down 6% to 636,977.

Are these numbers before or after cooking? Strib was in trouble this summer for falsifying circulation numbers.

[SteveMcKing]

Where did all the readers all go?

1) to New Media

2) to the Daily Show/Air America

3) quite literally- they died. Pure demographics.

While numbers 1 and 2 are in direct competition, we at FR may take comfort that #2 relies on MTV / R&B / and gangster rap culture to attract its audience.

Ie., our political adversaries are going nowhere in life.

[roses of sharon]

It matters not, their influence is massive, all broadcast and radio "news" uses the NYT.

Circulation makes no difference.

They run this country, our politicians and our culture.

They re-write our history, set the tone, they are political operatives who run a constant campaign, they cannot be beat.

Unless a campaign is run against them, each news corp and each reporter.

[PAR35]

The drop numbers probably aren't accurate. Circulation hasn't really dropped that quickly. It's just that a few papers got caught inflating the numbers, so most of the papers are taking out some of the padding before the advertisers catch on.

[connectthedots]

Newspapers are in the business of selling advertizing; not the reporting of news. Newspapers have been mailing advertizing for years to reach those who do not take a newspaper. these ads are usually 'wrapped' in a special section called "Food Day" or something similar.

Discount grocers like WinCo don't do any advertizing, yet do much more business because their prices are significantly lower overall than the big advertizers.

[groovejedi]

So... hwree's that Simpsons bully (Francis) going, "haha" and pointing. I think that pic fits here perfectly.

[Onelifetogive]

Bloodbath ...... For Newspaper Circulation

What is this "newspaper" thing that you are referring to? Did people get news printed on a sheet of paper in the past? How quaint...

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

The Boston Globe said its circulation plummeted this period. Daily circ dropped 7.7% and Sunday circ is down 7%.

Worst after the S.F. Chronicle? And deservedly so.

[Uncle Hal]

We take the SF Chronicle for the sports, crosswords etc. I am glad its circulation was down 16%. It is a truly an awful paper. I can tell they are in trouble because they have just a few pages of classified ads in every day. In fact I read some place that they are losing one million dollars a week. It is owned by the Hearst corporation so I guess they can afford it.

[heleny]

The Los Angeles Times is down about 3.7% Monday through Friday to 843,432 copies. On Sunday the paper reported a decrease of roughly 3.4% to 1,247,588 copies.

They have 50% more Sunday subscribers ($1/week) because they advertise the coupons as giving hundreds of dollars of savings each week. While that is sort of inflated, people easily save more than $1 by finding coupons for the things they would buy anyway.

I'm sure a significant number of people get the Sunday paper just for the coupons and don't read the paper at all. If the same advertisements and coupon inserts were available for cheaper weekly delivery without the newspaper (or with foreign newspaper or blank paper), I'm sure many of those Sunday-only people would jump.

[TaxRelief]

The Washington Post reported a drop in daily circulation, down 4% to 678,779. Sunday decreased roughly 4% to 965,919.

FYI, new report.

[Tribune7]

The Philadelphia Inquirer is down about 3% with daily circ at 357,679. Sunday circ is down roughly 4.5% to 714,609. The Daily News in Philadelphia dropped almost 11% to 121,093 daily copies.

Ho ho ho. Ha ha ha. Hee hee hee.

[1Old Pro]

Can't wait to see these headlines in the papers.

[narses]

+

Freep-mail me to get on or off my pro-life and Catholic Ping List:

Add me / Remove me

Please ping me to all note-worthy Pro-Life or Catholic threads, or other threads of interest.

[redhead]

It seems to me that this is a natural consequence of a country filled with people who are not only not taught to read and comprehend, but who don’t read the national language. (as well as newspapers being steadily replaced by “alternative” media, of course!) It sure couldn’t happen to a bunch of more deserving entities.

[Barnacle]

Environmentalists should be thrilled. Few trees cut down and less paper filling landfills.