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Top 25 Newspaper Subscriptions Being Destroyed (Dinosaur Media Deathwatch)
Editor & Publisher ^ | October 26, 2009 | E&P Staff

Posted on 10/26/2009 7:45:16 AM PDT by PittsburghAfterDark

THE WALL STREET JOURNAL -- 2,024,269 -- 0.61% USA TODAY -- 1,900,116 -- (-17.15%) THE NEW YORK TIMES -- 927,851 -- (-7.28%) LOS ANGELES TIMES -- 657,467 -- (-11.05%) THE WASHINGTON POST -- 582,844 -- (-6.40%)

DAILY NEWS (NEW YORK) -- 544,167 -- (-13.98%) NEW YORK POST -- 508,042 -- (-18.77%) CHICAGO TRIBUNE -- 465,892 -- (-9.72%) HOUSTON CHRONICLE -- 384,419 -- (-14.24%) THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER -- 361,480 -- N/A

NEWSDAY -- 357,124 -- (-5.40%) THE DENVER POST -- 340,949 -- N/A THE ARIZONA REPUBLIC -- 316,874 -- (-12.30%) STAR TRIBUNE, MINNEAPOLIS -- 304,543 -- (-5.53%) CHICAGO SUN-TIMES -- 275,641 -- (-11.98%)

The PLAIN DEALER, CLEVELAND -- 271,180 -- (-11.24%) DETROIT FREE PRESS (e) -- 269,729 -- (-9.56%) THE BOSTON GLOBE -- 264,105 -- (-18.48%) THE DALLAS MORNING NEWS -- 263,810 -- (-22.16%) THE SEATTLE TIMES -- 263,588 -- N/A

SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE -- 251,782 -- (-25.82%) THE OREGONIAN -- 249,163 -- (-12.06%) THE STAR-LEDGER, NEWARK -- 246,006 -- (-22.22%) SAN DIEGO UNION-TRIBUNE -- 242,705 -- (-10.05%) ST. PETERSBURG (FLA.) TIMES -- 240,147 -- (-10.70%)

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Political Humor/Cartoons
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To: Obadiah

“they ... consistently ran unflattering McCain stories”

I can’t explain the obama part, but McCain is an idiot and deserved to lose. The bad press was probably because McCain didn’t want to win and everyone could see it.


21 posted on 10/26/2009 8:28:12 AM PDT by bassfishing
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To: PittsburghAfterDark

Looks like they are all going green. Think of how many trees they are saving!


22 posted on 10/26/2009 8:30:59 AM PDT by charles1252
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To: PittsburghAfterDark
Meanwhile the Wall Street Journal grows.


23 posted on 10/26/2009 8:33:21 AM PDT by Donald Rumsfeld Fan (Sarah Palin is our Iron Lady of the North)
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To: PittsburghAfterDark
I think the huge drop in USA Today is directly because hotels/motels are shaving every penny, and now offer the paper, but do not scatter them at every doorway. When guests have the option of saying "no thanks", that is what is being said by many guests.

Less paper for the cleaning crew to dispose of, as well.

24 posted on 10/26/2009 8:48:35 AM PDT by maica (Freedom consists not in doing what we like,but in having the right to do what we ought. John Paul II)
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To: bunster; Kaslin

Ditto! Freeper Kaslin also posts the IBD editorials here every day. He has a ping list for these posts.


25 posted on 10/26/2009 8:52:03 AM PDT by maica (Freedom consists not in doing what we like,but in having the right to do what we ought. John Paul II)
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To: PittsburghAfterDark

I cannot tell you how pleased I am to see the Dallas Morning News is one of the biggest losers percentage wise.

This arrogant paper is in a Red state and a conservative area. The demographic for newspapers period is the older, more educated citizen.

And yet, they know best. They continue to use the liberal hacks from Austin to report Texas news and for the rest, they recycle the New York Times and rely too heavily on the liberal AP.
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Even their entertainment reporters are liberal and elitist.

I still subscribe but they are really making it hard.

Why don’t they learn? All we ask is fair and balanced.

I could read their front page cover to cover everyday and still not learn half the things I read here on Free Republic.


26 posted on 10/26/2009 8:59:10 AM PDT by altura
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To: Dawgreg

Same here. My parents started their subscription to the Chronicle when they moved to Houston in 1956. I always had my own subscription after I grew up and continued their subscription when I inherited their house in 1994.

The only reason I didn’t cancel before this year was the coupons in the Sunday paper and the continually declining subscription prices. With the coupons I was essentially getting a free newspaper I never read. The straw that broke the camel’s back was when some of the coupons started coming out in Spanish only. The money saved by not supporting the leftist rag offsets the loss in coupon savings, and the time saved by not clipping coupons is an added benefit.


27 posted on 10/26/2009 8:59:10 AM PDT by Fetid Facts
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To: PittsburghAfterDark
The bible proves it's self to be true once again...You reap what you sow.
28 posted on 10/26/2009 9:04:46 AM PDT by shiva
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To: Obadiah

>>>a great perception that the WSJ is conservative.

I agree that WSJ has continued its slide to the left. Although it seems to have accelerated over the last several years, it has been going on for decades. Printing in color marked one of its water sheds. At one time, only the front middle column contained a liberal human interest story.

Unfortunately, the same has happened to Barron’s, their sister publication, but only more so.

In both publications, it has become difficult to find an article that’s so interesting you are forced to buy it.

I find it difficult to believe that all these publications can’t figure out what sells. Look at the success of conservative talk radio and conservative web sites. All medias made a hard left when journalism schools started preaching that news had to carry the author’s opinion. Decades ago, news had to reflect TRUTH instead.


29 posted on 10/26/2009 9:07:30 AM PDT by Hop A Long Cassidy
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To: Obadiah

>>I would argue that there is a great perception that the WSJ is conservative. Now that perception may likely be the reason is continues to perfom above everyone else, but the honest fact is that the WSJ is crazy liberal and I would further argue that it has become even more liberal in the past few years.

The editorials are solid and conservative, but most of the news and features are written from a decidedly liberal point of view.<<

You’re correct, and you’ve been proven correct by testing. The test, as I recall, consisted of ranking news stories based upon whether they cited sources that could be construed as liberal, neutral or conservative. Surprisingly (to me anyway) the WSJ had by far the most liberal news story bias than any other major newspaper, the NY Times included.

Of course the editorial pages offset that bias, but it’s still good to keep in mind that the news pages reflect a quite liberal bias though it’s often subtle. Again, it depends on what they choose to cover and who they choose to rely upon as sources. The ACORN story, for instance, was muted in the WSJ until several days after it erupted. Similarly, you would never know that the global warming/climate change topic was still being debated if you only relied upon their news pages. Sure, they’ll print the economic winners vs. losers stories, but not the arguments in rebuttal of the entire concept. They’re too liberal to do so.

Frankly, to get a conservative slant on U.S. news, one has to go to Canadian and British papers on-line. And possibly Investor’s Business Daily, which I don’t see much.

If you’re going to be reading news with a liberal slant (and you are), better it be from a paper where the editorial staff will do its best to straighten out the confusion at the end of the day. Also, it’s not all bad to keep an eye on the opposition’s thinking, and reading the news pages of the WSJ will accomplish that to a greater extent than one realizes. Best to realize it, then continue reading.


30 posted on 10/26/2009 9:31:01 AM PDT by Norseman
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To: Fetid Facts

I only took it as long as I did just for the crossword and deaths. If my name wasn’t in the obits, I’d do the crossword........LOL. Now I just go to their website and read the death notices just for the sole purpose to see if anyone I know has passed. Sometimes word gets around too late. I’ve learned from experience that friends from your past or someone in their family you knew passed and that’s the only way I could find out.


31 posted on 10/26/2009 9:34:59 AM PDT by Dawgreg (Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.)
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