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Make sure you click to the article as it has some telling statistics on readership compared to the U.S. budget.
1 posted on 08/07/2013 1:17:06 PM PDT by upbeat5
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Stunning numbers...great post....

“That means there were more people on that government health care program [Medicaid] for at least a month than the combined number (69,721,000) of newspapers put into circulation daily and people visiting newspaper websites daily.


3 posted on 08/07/2013 1:24:48 PM PDT by nascarnation (Baraq's economic policy: trickle up poverty)
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I mourn my ability to post and see ping’d responses....today...


5 posted on 08/07/2013 1:29:50 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously, you won't live through it anyway)
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Nonetheless, the declining market value of these newspapers — and of American newspapers in general — points to a genuine problem for our country.

Sounds like a cause for celebration to me.

Pat Caddell called it. Do you believe it yet?

Pat Caddell slams the media: They have become an “enemy of the people” Sept. 29, 2012(video 26:00)

Emotional Pat Caddell on the MSM ignoring Benghazi: “These people have no honor!” Oct. 27, 2012 (video at link 4:06)

The MSM are enemies of the people!

7 posted on 08/07/2013 1:45:37 PM PDT by TigersEye ("No man left behind" is more than an Army Ranger credo it's the character of America.)
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The highest purpose of the press is to defend liberty against over-reaching government.

When is the last time the MSM did that?

8 posted on 08/07/2013 1:47:17 PM PDT by GeronL
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The numbers were not adjusted for inflation.
$1.1 B in 1993 is $1.78 B today.
The Globe sold for 6.3 % of its original price.


9 posted on 08/07/2013 2:16:14 PM PDT by I want the USA back (There's no autocorrect for stupidity.)
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Part of the reason for their demise is that many people are leaving media with long sentences and structured paragraphs for short bursts of emotion-laden poorly thought out babblings. Many people get all the information that they will ever get from Twitter twittings.

To talk about depth of knowledge with the new media would be ludicrous. It doesn’t even deserve the word “superficial.”

People read 140 characters of someone’s mouth droppings and they think they know something. They retwit it and soon millions are babbling about the latest twittering. This passes for knowledge. Unsurprisingly, the people who do the most twittering voted for 0bama in mass.

[I know it’s tweets, but I have a lot of respect for birds.]


10 posted on 08/07/2013 2:36:02 PM PDT by I want the USA back (There's no autocorrect for stupidity.)
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If John Henry wants to throw money away, I’m right here and quite willing to take some of the burden off his shoulders.


12 posted on 08/07/2013 4:50:50 PM PDT by Jack Hammer (American)
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