Impeccable Publisher Logic: Our circulation is dropping even though we have seen a net increase in the number of new subscribers (whatever the hell that means); our revenues are dropping, even as this has improved our papers' bottom line (however the hell that can happen); and this is all good because it means we are going out of business at slower rate.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/27/business/media/27paper.html?ref=business
Judge Says 3 Can Bid at Newspaper Auction
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/27/business/media/27audit.html?ref=business
Newspaper Circulation Falls Nearly 9%
Wow, if this qualifies for 24th the print media is really in trouble.
has nothing to do with bias and hostility towards average Americans...nope it’s that damn internet
HMMMM lets see selling less papers, lets see, I know lets raise the price that will do it.
Look at the up side. Fewer papers sold means less printing stock and ink to buy!
Why worry? The Puffery/Earnings Ratio is doing great!
Soon, these rags will be down to a single subscriber; the U.S. taxpayer. I’m betting the papers go the GM bailout route. It will be touted as “The Preservation of the First Amendment Bill”, or some other similar malarkey.
What the data doesn’t tell us is how many subscriptions are free. For example, isn’t USA Today given free (or dramatically discounted) to many hotels/motels?
On a different point, I recall when the NY Slimes and the WSJ were neck and neck in terms of circulation. The WSJ is pretty expensive, but their circulation is now more than twice that of the Slimes.
Forget political bias. We are seeing the worst writing ever in daily print publications in the history of America. These hacks can’t put together logical strings from one end of the story to the other, and the boring passive voice is a big snoozer.
The man wuz robbed because he wuz walking home late after hiz late night shift where he wuz working. The victim, who wuz walking on a dark street, said he wuz approached by man in a black suit who wuz wearing a black hoodie.
“I am robbing you,” shouted the robber while he wuz holding the evil glock gun sideways, which wuz loaded with cop-killing bullets, which wuz capable of penetrating an engine block at 1,000 yards.
I wuz terrified, said the victim, who wuz walking home from work after he wuz done working where he wuz working. The victim gave the robber his money and the crook wuz seen running off with the victim’s money with 3rd street toward Maple Avenue.
The police wuz describing that the robber wuz a man that wuz 18 to 54 years old. He wuz wearing hair, had a nose, eyes and mouth. He wus also sporting two arms and legs. When he opened hiz mouth, there wuz words coming out.
If anyone has information on this robber that wuz doing this robbery, call the police who wuz on the scene 5 hours after the robbery wuz committed.
......# Wall Street Journal: 2,092,523 weekday (up 0.5 percent); no Sunday edition......
Once again I point out to FReepers that when Prince bin Talal made an investment in News Corp, he was demonstrating his excellence as a businessman
Maybe when they are all out of a job, they can then reflect on all the BS they published that got them AND us into this mess. Good ridance to the NY and LA Crimes. Not worth the paper it is printed on, nor the time it take to read the crapola.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/04/27/BU8D1D533A.DTL
Newspaper circulation slides nationwide
http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-04-27/sumner-redstone-says-murdoch-s-newspapers-are-destined-to-fail.html
Sumner Redstone Says Murdoch’s Newspapers Will Fail
http://www.mediapost.com/publications/?fa=Articles.showArticle&art_aid=126911
‘Variety,’ ‘Newsday’: Pay Walls Mean Fewer Page Views
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/the_big_picture/2010/04/cbs-films-needs-a-big-makeover-after-its-j-lo-backup-plan-stumbles-at-the-box-office.html
CBS Films needs a big makeover after its J.Lo ‘Back-Up Plan’ stumbles at the box office