People want to be quick to say its because of their liberal polices have come home to roost, but, consider, that most people whom have any education can afford a computer, and many have 24-hour cable news, they wont need a paper any more. The only ones who be left in the market in the long run will be the uneducated that don’t speak English therefore whom don’t earn very much money and cannot afford or understand electric media, and or refuse to assimilate to the modern world.
Therefore are the liberal socialist polices of these papers causing people to leave, or are they designed to attract new readership, those from poor counties and the uneducated that don’t understand or value conservative ideas?
Could be wrong, but that just how I see it unfolding, and therefore the losses are not really telling the whole story, they are just loosing out on the English media, and they have a bail out plan which wont include services to US citizens, which in that context can help to explain why the paper's policies are not very supportive of this country.
Hoy Readership Increases 27% in Los Angeles
Wednesday October 12, 2005
Double-digit audience growth continues in all markets for the only national Spanish-language newspaper
CHICAGO, Oct. 12 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Hoy, the nation's leading Spanish-language newspaper, with daily editions in New York, Los Angeles and Chicago, today released new Scarborough numbers that report its Los Angeles daily readership increased by 27 percent for the most recent six-month 2005 measurement period. For the entire 12-month period, readership averaged 176,300 per issue and 420,100 per week.
"These are terrific numbers for a newspaper that has been in the market for only 18 months," said Gisselle Acevedo-Franco, President and General Manager of Hoy Los Angeles. "It reflects Hoy's strong connection to the needs and interests of Los Angeles area Latinos
To add to the ignorance of the MSM, I find most of the liberal rags require registration to access their tripe online. I refuse to register for any newspaper.
Good analysis. It is only logical that the sale of spanish newspapers would go up as our country is flooded with Spanish speakers who do not have computers. I don't think growth will continue in the long term.
Hollywood is ignoring the fall of American audiences as well and surviving on support overseas but they don't have much competition overseas, whereas foreign liberal news sources are a dime a dozen. This leaves liberal American news sources out of market.
It would be interesting to know when the slide in American newspaper subscriptions actually fell. I think it started falling big before everyone had a computer to read the news. I remember in the early 90's the newspaper gods claiming subscriptions were falling because the papers were not "diverse" enough in staffing. There are enough English speakers to make an American paper successful however there are not enough Democrat party liberals to make the papers survive.
Something I have been wondering about; Newspapers claim their on line readership is strong based on the number of hits they get. Do they include the poll hits run up by Freepers and Dummies in those numbers?