Posted on 10/26/2009 7:45:16 AM PDT by PittsburghAfterDark
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL -- 2,024,269 -- 0.61% USA TODAY -- 1,900,116 -- (-17.15%) THE NEW YORK TIMES -- 927,851 -- (-7.28%) LOS ANGELES TIMES -- 657,467 -- (-11.05%) THE WASHINGTON POST -- 582,844 -- (-6.40%)
DAILY NEWS (NEW YORK) -- 544,167 -- (-13.98%) NEW YORK POST -- 508,042 -- (-18.77%) CHICAGO TRIBUNE -- 465,892 -- (-9.72%) HOUSTON CHRONICLE -- 384,419 -- (-14.24%) THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER -- 361,480 -- N/A
NEWSDAY -- 357,124 -- (-5.40%) THE DENVER POST -- 340,949 -- N/A THE ARIZONA REPUBLIC -- 316,874 -- (-12.30%) STAR TRIBUNE, MINNEAPOLIS -- 304,543 -- (-5.53%) CHICAGO SUN-TIMES -- 275,641 -- (-11.98%)
The PLAIN DEALER, CLEVELAND -- 271,180 -- (-11.24%) DETROIT FREE PRESS (e) -- 269,729 -- (-9.56%) THE BOSTON GLOBE -- 264,105 -- (-18.48%) THE DALLAS MORNING NEWS -- 263,810 -- (-22.16%) THE SEATTLE TIMES -- 263,588 -- N/A
SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE -- 251,782 -- (-25.82%) THE OREGONIAN -- 249,163 -- (-12.06%) THE STAR-LEDGER, NEWARK -- 246,006 -- (-22.22%) SAN DIEGO UNION-TRIBUNE -- 242,705 -- (-10.05%) ST. PETERSBURG (FLA.) TIMES -- 240,147 -- (-10.70%)
(Excerpt) Read more at editorandpublisher.com ...
I think based on these figures you can kiss the following papers goodbye in 2010; Boston Globe, Dallas Morning News, San Francisco Chronicle and Newark Star-Ledger. You simply cannot continue to offer annual advertising rates when your base is down 25%. No advertiser would pay for that kind of non-performance.
Meanwhile the Wall Street Journal grows. Now, just how can that be? How can the one conservative leaning newspaper grow while the rest of the communist leaning newspapers.... oh never mind. We've been telling them the business model for success for 20 years, they know best.
Dr. Raoul's Rule: BIAS = LAYOFFS.
Or, like the Mpls Star Tribune did some years ago, you could just lie about your circulation.
complain to your hotel and motel managements about
usa today.
maybe they’ll do some more cost cutting!
After 43 years I finally cancelled my subscription to the Houston “Comical”. Of course they called me and asked me to reconsider. Told them that rag wasn’t worth lining my bird cage and I should have stopped it long before I did.
the lost angeles times offered me their —— for,
get this!
$1.00 per week!
PLAIN DEALER, CLEVELAND — 271,180 — (-11.24%)
I know someone who has been trying to cancel her subscription for 3 months. They keep sending the paper. Free. Now they are giving away the weekend paper if you subscribe to a neighborhood paper not owned by them!
They are desperate.
Longtime WSJ reader - it rocks - and makes all the leftie rags look pathetic...case in point: read a recent article by Terry Teachout (opera/broadway,etc writer...) on the Polanski situation...pure genius and very brave!
PLAIN DEALER, CLEVELAND — 271,180 — (-11.24%)
I know someone who has been trying to cancel her subscription for 3 months. They keep sending the paper after 3 unpaid returned bills. Free. Now they are giving away the weekend paper if you subscribe to a neighborhood paper not owned by them!
They are desperate.
Bankrupt. Layoffs. Still a marxist propaganda sheet. How does it hang on?
I would argue that there is a great perception that the WSJ is conservative. Now that perception may likely be the reason is continues to perfom above everyone else, but the honest fact is that the WSJ is crazy liberal and I would further argue that it has become even more liberal in the past few years.
The editorials are solid and conservative, but most of the news and features are written from a decidedly liberal point of view.
This is the same paper that ran panting pro-Obama story and photo on its front page, nearly single every day, for months before the election. At the same time, they ran consistently ran unflattering McCain stories, when they covered him.
Its the same in cable news FNC is getting about twice the viewers as CNN and MSNBC combined, this in spite of being on Barry Soetoro’s enemies list. At least for now this is a center right country (at least among those who work and vote with their wallets). People are not going to pay money for the same liberal bilge when newspapers like IBD and the WSJ actually print accurate news.
Have been traveling lately and noticed that there has consistantly been a stack of untaken copies of USA Today at each of the hotels where I’ve stayed. They’re either in the breakfast area or on the front desk.
I will grant you that some of their reporters are lefties and write articles with that bias - I could even name a few off the top of my head - but overall, the paper is delightfully rightish, even in their cultural coverage - and can be even more delightful in not having any slant entering into the writing at all. Yes, the fashion chick is ga-ga over Michelle but most of the rest is pretty even handed - and in this day and age, it’s refreshing...and sells papers...
note the huge % drop in the largest cities...would be interesting to see a corresponding set of figures for Foreign Language papers in those areas (bet they are up bigtime).
I will ask The One in genuflection this morning, for a government bail out for Newspapers, plus moose and cheese for my sister.
Time for all these rags to get a bailout or a government takeover! Can’t have all these guys fail!
Chicago papers have transformed into propagand organs for the One. Meaning have moved from wading in the kool aid to a plunge into the depths of enabling
Chicago papers have transformed into propagand organs for the One. Meaning have moved from wading in the kool aid to a plunge into the depths of enabling
I like WSJ editorials but lately have been reading more Investors Business Daily opinion/editorials plus they have a Michael Ramirez cartoon — he’s the best. Do give IBD a look at.
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