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"Combined ad revenue for the ABC, CBS and NBC television networks plunged 21.5% . . ."

Holey moley that's a steep decline. The distribution system is unstable and not focused. Internet advertising has a more proscribed audience, not the shotgun approach that electronic media invented in the 1930s.

Couldn't happen to a more deserving bunch of communists.

I now get more news and info from the Internet than TV or newspapers. But when I watched TV or read the paper I would occasionally check out the ads. Online, I never check out any of the ads or click them...unless it is one of those floating ads I can't figure out how to close (or if it is a hot chick in a tight t-shirt).

This looks as good a thread as any to trot out my shrine to Olds Media. A work of FReeper performance art known as Got them Olds Media Circulation Blues inspired by an ancient axiom that bad news sells.

Newspaper circulation down. Sanfrancisco Chronicle down 17% - 11/08/2005
Newspaper Circulation Continues to Decline (NY Daily News DOWN 1.5% - May 2005) - 10/24/2005
Bored readers cutting off Globe’s circulation - 10/20/2005
Time Inc. Gets A U.S. Subpoena About Circulation - 09/24/2005
Denver papers use liberal rules to boost circulation - 08/08/2005
Advertisers Sue 'Minneapolis Star Tribune' Over Circulation Inflation - 06/29/2005
Arrests made in Newsday circulation scandal - 06/16/2005
Los Angeles Times Reports March Circulation (Down, down, down) - 05/02/2005
Belo Begins Refunding Advertisers Over Inflated Circulation Figures (Texas) - 05/02/2005
Why Can’t the Washington Post Keep Circulation Up? - 07/23/2004
Newsday, Hoy publishers retire amid circulation scandal - 07/19/04
Publishers Seek Scapegoats for Circulation Woes - 07/05/2004
Tribune Company (LA Times parent) Admits Inflated Circulation Numbers At Two Papers - 06/23/2004

And you wonder why Hugh Hewitt can charge pretty high prices for the ads on his weblog site.

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Combined ad revenue for the ABC, CBS and NBC television networks plunged 21.5% to $2.2 billion for the third quarter

Which has absolutely nothing to do with the internet and everything to do with the CRAP they put on those three networks.