Oregonian's falling circulation

Willamette Week ^ | November 9, 2005 | Editorial staff

[DuckFan4ever]

Lousy circulation numbers may help explain why The Oregonian's felt a need to move to "high-definition Sundays," the mid-September makeover much mocked by the paper's reporters. The O's Sunday circulation numbers for the six-month period ending Sept. 30 fell 2.5 percent, to 394,992 Sunday subscribers, a number below the 400,000-subscriber figure that triggers higher ad rates. Not that The Oregonian was alone in the decline: National numbers reported Monday by the Audit Bureau of Circulations showed only one of 17 large papers (The New York Times) gaining readers on Sundays.

[Vor Lady]

Wow the governor has the qualifications for national office! He could run in '08 for the Dems for the White House!

[Vor Lady]

You've hit the nail on the head with the illiteracy thing! My youngest brother graduated in 1990 with a B average from his Salem, Oregon high school. He can not read well enough to fill out job applications! How does someone who can't read graduate with a B average? He also doesn't read the newpaper.

[investigateworld]

I believe the lad held an important position during the Clinton Administration

[OregonRancher]

Amen to that..

[Salvation]

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[TruthWillWin]

The Oregonian kind of blew it when they got scooped on the former Democratic Governor's abuse of a 14 YOA child.

Not once when reporting on this story did the Oregonian mention that the former Gov was a Dem?? If he had been a Republican that fact would have been repeated in every paragraph.

[albee]

"Ironically, part of the problem is that too many people are functionally illiterate. The education system that large dailies support are turning out people who can not bring themselves to read anything much more complicated than a STOP sign."

I think you hit the nail on the head!

Reading is no longer stressed in classrooms and the kids never picked up the habit.

Result?

Buh-Bye Mainstream Print Media!

[Cold Heart]

I stopped buying the Oregonian over twenty five years ago when I decided I didn't like their slant. The culminating factor was when I wrote a letter to the editor and they slipped out a few of my words & slipped a few of their own in. They completely changed the position I was presenting.

[rudy45]

Sorry if I missed it: what is "high definition Sunday"? Thanks.

[daybreakcoming]

Ah, the Oregonian. I remember my grandfather read it every day and cuss the politicians Then he would use it to start fires in the wood stoves. Today he would take it straight to the stove. He would not recognize Oregon today.

[ForGod'sSake]

..wonder what the individual stockholders are thinking as surely they see their investments fade away?

It might be instructive to get a list of major stockholders; that is, the one's we don't know about, of the major media players. Buffett, Disney, GE are a who's who of capitalist success; so what is it about capitalists that turns them into reasonable facsimiles of Bolsheviks when they reach the pinnacle? Does it come from the desire to control one's environment, which is always there, but now having the wherewithall to influence world events, they're actions become engines for social change?

Corporatism at its finest? The rest of us are just customers.

FGS

[eeman]

Thanks for the Ping.

As for the Oregonian, when I lived in Portland, I cancelled the paper. As a result, they kept giving me 90 day free offers and then I would promptly cancel on the 89th day. After doing that twice, however, I turned down the next offer because their paper is not even worth it even when it is givenn to you free.

[kcvl]

The Austin Un American Ultra Liberal Non Statesman is throwing FREE papers one every two weeks and one Sunday paper per month.

Our local paper was doing that too until I called and told them I would report them to the police for trashing my yard if I found it again.

[FBD]

The Oregonian isn't a publicly traded newspaper...it's owned by the Newhouse family. Liberal editors in the Newhouse family papers are allowed to run wild and free.
Sandra Rowe, editor of the Oregonian is a flaming lib.

Read more about the "Newhouse Way" HERE:

http://archives.cjr.org/year/00/1/newhouse.asp

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[snip]:

"Clifton now runs a Newhouse paper, and he is discovering the Newhouse Way.

Suddenly, he had no real budget to prepare. There was no five-year plan, no mission statement, no threat of "mid-course corrections" if revenue estimates don't pan out..."

[Lancey Howard]

Great news BUMP!
Die, liberal newspaper, die. Just hurry up and die.

[Windcatcher]

I wonder how much longer it will be before the MSM tries to get the Internet banned so people will once again be forced to go through their media filter.

[FBD]

To all Oregonians:

Like to comment about un-fairness, and in-accuracy in the news coverage and editorial pages of The Deadfishwrapper, AKA: "The Oregonian"?
Contact the public editor, Michael Arrieta-Walden, at 503-221-8221 or toll-free from outside the 503 area code at 1-877-238-8221, by fax at 503-412-7060 or send an e-mail to:

publiceditor@news.oregonian.com.

[ForGod'sSake]

Read more about the "Newhouse Way" HERE:

Interesting AND, close knit bunch. While none of the "family" appears to take much interest in the day to day operation of these rags, they DO have a family member as CEO/COO at each of the major pubs. Simple plan: hire firebreathing liberals as editors and turn 'em loose.

The really troubling thing about this outfit is they seem to be bucking a trend as most of the old media slides into the abyss.

FGS

[Grampa Dave]

Facinating reading.

I'm all ways amazed at the size and scope of some these privately held family organizations.

What is even more amazing in some industries like fly fishing industries, these private companies often own and control the major players in the industry. By not allowing public owned stock, they seem to get by with whatever they marketing pressures they want to do as long as they produce good products.

There is no SEC supervision. They set and viciously control their so called fair trade prices for their products. Any merchant caught selling their products below the so called fair trade prices gets his supply of new products cut off. That often means the offender has to close their shops if they can't have the top products.

[FBD]

Oh, they aren't bucking any trends, other then they don't worry about having to please stockholders.

They all have multicultural committees who spike stories that are deemed offensive to liberal causes.

For more on that, read the fiction book "Deadline" by Randy Alcorn, who lives out here, in the Portland area.