Washington Post suffers 85% earnings drop [ Why do they track earnings? / sarc ]

politico.com ^ | May 3, 2013 | MACKENZIE WEINGER

[NoLibZone]

The Washington Post Co. on Friday reported bad news for its newspaper division, with revenue totaling $127.3 million for the first quarter of this year — down four percent from 2012 — and an operating loss of $34.5 million.

Overall, the company posted a profit of just $4.7 million, an 85 percent drop in earnings from the net income of $31 million for the first quarter of last year.

[Starboard]

Thanks to the Democrats’ decades-long support for the teachers’ unions, which have destroyed our public-education system, fewer and fewer people have had the ability to read newspapers like the Washington Post,
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Excellent post. Liberal teachers have dumbed down the students to the point that they have no ability to read or even think. So why would they want to subscribe to a newspaper they can’t understand?

[Rocky]

Money’s always lost in DC............

Astronomers should check to see if there's a mini black hole in D.C.

[generally]

Winner!