Circulation numbers for the 25 largest newspapers

CNBC.com ^ | 4/26/10 | The Associated Press

[highlander_UW]

The top 25 U.S. newspapers by average weekday and Sunday circulation from October 2009 through March. The percentage changes are from the same six-month span last year.

[Carry_Okie]

Dropping your newspaper subscription is good for the environment...

[incredulous joe]

“Of course those “free” papers are paid for with tax money.”

I naturally assume that these are simply giveaways to phoney up the circulation numbers.

My children go to private schools, so I know that a dime has not come out of our school budget for the papers. I’m not necessarily certain papers delivered to my school could even be paid for as part of a government program sisnce the school is a Christian school, I would think any influence would come under that dandy “separation of church and state” canard.

[incredulous joe]

Well, yes, if they are subsidized by us, I suspect they can survive, but their are more little piggies fighting over less teats. I don’t really see anyone from the left or right clamoring for this issue, except for maybe the dinosaurs themselves.

When the full impact of the Obama economy takes effect, keeping newspapers running is not going be such a big priority.

My senator, Ben Cardin, supports bailing out newspapers, but he’s a complete moron.

To some degree, I’m not certain what, they’ve cut their own throats by continuously tacking left. Fox News ratings against every other network in every other market bears this out.

I think newspapers are a thing of the past. They have outlived their usefulness and even if our oppressors deem that we should subsidize through legislative fiat, nobody will actually read the papers.

[SmokingJoe]

id notice that the NY Post, which is a conservative paper, also lost readers

They doubled their price from 25 cents to 50 cents. The circulation was bound to drop after that. Meanwhile, the more conservative Wall Street Journal actually increased their circulations, while the New York Times, L.A. Times, Washington Post etc all lost circulation big time.

[highlander_UW]

I naturally assume that these are simply giveaways to phoney up the circulation numbers. My children go to private schools, so I know that a dime has not come out of our school budget for the papers. I’m not necessarily certain papers delivered to my school could even be paid for as part of a government program sisnce the school is a Christian school, I would think any influence would come under that dandy “separation of church and state” canard.

Ah, well in the case of a private school, they are probably using it as a write off on taxes to donate to schools...plus, as you note, it boosts their circ numbers. Now for public schools, I wouldn't be shocked to find that budget money is used to purchase papers...for example, at a university.