[highlander_UW]

The only shocker regarding the decline is how pervasive and steep it is.

[screaminsunshine]

The numbers get better in the Spring when people paint and fish a lot more.

[chickadee]

Pretty numbers.

[Panzerlied]

I wonder if anyone in Newspapers number 2 through 25 has a clue why the # 1 WSJ went up in circulation?

[tioga]

I think it’s fitting that those that read the rags get an inky film on their hands after handling them.

[Izzy Dunne]

Executive Summary: out of 25 newspapers, all are down 5-25% from last year to this, with a few exceptions:

1... Wall Street Journal - actually UP 0.5 %
2... St. Petersburg Times - down 1.5% week days - UP 0.9% Sunday
3... Oregonian of Portland: down 1.8% week days - 3.2% Sunday

Causes: Global Warming, racism, right-wing violence

OK, I mad that last part up

[Gay State Conservative]

The Boston Globe *almost* went under a few months ago.With any luck at all we’ll be rid of it very soon.Then we won’t have to put up with any more “women and minorities hit hardest” BS.

[meyer]

Hmmnnnn....

Wall Street Journal - up slightly
Everyone else - down (except the Sunday edition of the St. Petersburg Times). Could it be because the Journal has an editorial page that is NOT chock-full of Marxists masquerading as editors?

I wonder how a smaller paper like the Chattanooga Times Free Press has done over the last couple of years.

[incredulous joe]

I only get my local because it is supplied free via the “newspapers in school” program, which only helps to float it’s circulation.

Even out here in the conservatively slanted “boonies”, the press has to angle left.

Curiously, there are no longer any advertisements for real estate and cars. At one point this year, I found a paper with absolutely no revenue generating advertisements with exception to classifieds.

I don’t know how they can stay in business.

[conejo99]

1) Most of these papers richly deserve their present predicament due to a long history of advancing a political agenda on their news pages that is at odds with the majority of their customer base (a conservative leaning middle to upper class).
2) We, as a society, will come to regret loosing a potential independent auditor of the activities of an increasingly intrusive government. Local government in particular will be free of effective accountability.
3) The new on-line media will have a hard time filling this void. Presently many on-line outlets use the resources of the old media but do not help cover the costs of the material they use. National political figures and actions can still be covered, but local events will lack the critical mass of interest and attention needed to provide effective coverage.

[scoobysnak71]

Excellent! This is what you Piece Of S**T Newspapers get for goose-stepping forward to the tune that YOUR Communist In Chief is beating.

You have successfully alienated at least 1/2 the population (the same people you want to buy your papers and sell advertising to).

As if that weren’t bad enough, you compound the problem by NOT taking a neutral stance and simply report the news, as requested countless times. Just give us the news, WE’LL make up our mind as to what we think.

You force-feed us what YOU want us to think. You tout the Party Line, even cover-up the entire story, simply to make anything conservative look bad.

Up here in Duluth,Mn., the local (I hesitate to call it an actual Newspaper) rag went so far as to call for an end to violence from Tea Party participants. This is a well known tactic of the LIBERAL/PROGRESSIVE movement. (If you repeat a lie often enough, it becomes the truth) The simple fact of the matter is there has never been an act of violence by any tea party member. All violence has been committed by the LEFT. YOU WONT SEE THAT ON ANY NEWSPAPER PAGE.

While you continue to lay off workers, while you continue to loose advertising revenue, while you continue to forfeit subscriptions, ALL FOR THE SAKE OF BEING ONE OF OBAMAS STATE RUN MEDIA, all for the sake of trying to MAKE THE NEWS instead of simply reporting it, I laugh at you.

My advice to you is to die, and die quickly. The sooner we can start building a new and properly run media outlet, the better. And when we do, there will be one sign outside.

LIBERALS NEED NOT APPLY

[dangus]

Wall Street Journal: Up.
LA Times: Down 14.7%
Washington Post: Down 13.1%
NY Daily News: Down 11.3%
Dallas Morning News: Down 21.5% (With Bush gone, no-one in the Northeast reads them anymore.)
San Francisco Chronicle: Down 22.7%
Houston Chronicle: Down 13.8%
NY Times: Down 8.5%
USA Today: Down 13.6%

I guess the Obama Economic Miracle hasn’t hit the dead-tree press.
Smaller, more local-focused papers have been faring somewhat better, which is interesting to me, because you might have thought that Craig’s List, etc., would have destroyed them. Their mainstays were Classifieds, Sports and Weather. And Classifieds, Sports, and Weather are all on the internet, now.

[Bean Counter]

[domeika]

I had a subscription to the Philly Enquirer years back, but dropped it. They are nothing but another leftist parasite outlet.

They do call once a year though to offer a discount n such, and when asked why I don't want to receive it (and they do ask that, it's part of the script), I tell them it's because they are a leftist mouth-piece that always endorses leftist candidates and ideology.

......And that their crossword puzzle is too easy (gotta help the leftists think they're smart dontchya know.)

[Buckeye McFrog]

If there were a Grey Lady Toilet Paper on the market (made exclusively from recycled copies of the New York Times) I would buy it.

Burrito supper Saturday night, February’s Paul Krugman column Sunday morning. Works for me.

[capt. norm]

And the illegal immigrants that are filling up Los Angeles don’t read newspapers...it may help the politicians but news papers are only good for wrapping fish and the bottom of bird cages.

[balls]

The Boston Globe is not even in the top 25 anymore. Amazing.

From the Globe:

The Globe’s daily circulation fell 23.2 percent to 232,432 in the six-month period that ended in March, compared to the same period a year ago, according to the Audit Bureau of Circulations. The Globe’s Sunday circulation dropped 18.8 percent to 378,949. Weekday circulation at the Herald fell 12 percent to 132,551, while Sunday declined 4.6 percent to 91,040

[Carry_Okie]

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