[NoCmpromiz]

I am deeply saddened by the news.. Maybe they can convince mayor bloombits to author an edict that requires the purchase price of the rag be added to the toll everyone entering NYC pays so that commuters will have something to read while sitting in traffic.. Or use as a floormat.. Or not...

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[South40]

Despite rising numbers of readers and paid subscriptions

BS.

[FlingWingFlyer]

Another consequence of the “Dumbing Down Of America”. The only people who can still read these days are “old school”, American conservatives and we don’t read garbage like the NYT.

[GeronL]

The NYT sold the Globe for a song but they also kept the pension liabilities of more than they got for the paper. They lost all of what they paid for the Globe and then some.

[cicero2k]

Lemmie guess.

Next week Larry Elison (Oracle ~ 25 billion) will snap up the Times so that his new America’s Cup yacht format is ensured praise.

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These would be the same people who say Great Leader has great ideas regarding the economy?

[dragnet2]

Only technology challenged morons still get their news from a wad of dirty paper thrown on their driveways.

Look at your neighbors driveways to find the mentally challenged. Most are old leftist who haven’t the slightest clue.

[Jonty30]

If the Times was really interested in profits, they’d print a magazine insert explaining in-depth everything about Obama, including all the strange discrepancies about the man that birthers keep raising.

They could probably double the price of the Times for that one issue and practically everybody worldwide would by an issue. I think they would make so much money that it would easily make up for the losses of the last ten years.

I just think it’s interesting that they won’t do this.

[VerySadAmerican]

Rising number of readers and subscribers? First of all, I don’t believe there has been an increase in subscribers. But how in the heck do they know how many are reading it?

Most papers put out bogus numbers to begin with. I know of a paper in a town of about 100,000 that used to count papers put in dispensers as papers sold. Even though most of them were thrown away.

[RayChuang88]

The biggest problem with the New York Times is that the print newspaper has become a victim of what Alvin Toffler describes as de-massifying of the media--modern communications technology means why wait for a printed newspaper when you can get the news a lot online?

[zeugma]

Paid subscribers: It’s not hard to increase subscribers by 40% when there were only 20 to start with.