I think based on these figures you can kiss the following papers goodbye in 2010; Boston Globe, Dallas Morning News, San Francisco Chronicle and Newark Star-Ledger. You simply cannot continue to offer annual advertising rates when your base is down 25%. No advertiser would pay for that kind of non-performance.
Meanwhile the Wall Street Journal grows. Now, just how can that be? How can the one conservative leaning newspaper grow while the rest of the communist leaning newspapers.... oh never mind. We've been telling them the business model for success for 20 years, they know best.
Dr. Raoul's Rule: BIAS = LAYOFFS.
Or, like the Mpls Star Tribune did some years ago, you could just lie about your circulation.
complain to your hotel and motel managements about
usa today.
maybe they’ll do some more cost cutting!
After 43 years I finally cancelled my subscription to the Houston “Comical”. Of course they called me and asked me to reconsider. Told them that rag wasn’t worth lining my bird cage and I should have stopped it long before I did.
PLAIN DEALER, CLEVELAND — 271,180 — (-11.24%)
I know someone who has been trying to cancel her subscription for 3 months. They keep sending the paper. Free. Now they are giving away the weekend paper if you subscribe to a neighborhood paper not owned by them!
They are desperate.
Longtime WSJ reader - it rocks - and makes all the leftie rags look pathetic...case in point: read a recent article by Terry Teachout (opera/broadway,etc writer...) on the Polanski situation...pure genius and very brave!
PLAIN DEALER, CLEVELAND — 271,180 — (-11.24%)
I know someone who has been trying to cancel her subscription for 3 months. They keep sending the paper after 3 unpaid returned bills. Free. Now they are giving away the weekend paper if you subscribe to a neighborhood paper not owned by them!
They are desperate.
Bankrupt. Layoffs. Still a marxist propaganda sheet. How does it hang on?
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.
This is the same paper that ran panting pro-Obama story and photo on its front page, nearly single every day, for months before the election. At the same time, they ran consistently ran unflattering McCain stories, when they covered him.
Its the same in cable news FNC is getting about twice the viewers as CNN and MSNBC combined, this in spite of being on Barry Soetoro’s enemies list. At least for now this is a center right country (at least among those who work and vote with their wallets). People are not going to pay money for the same liberal bilge when newspapers like IBD and the WSJ actually print accurate news.
note the huge % drop in the largest cities...would be interesting to see a corresponding set of figures for Foreign Language papers in those areas (bet they are up bigtime).
I will ask The One in genuflection this morning, for a government bail out for Newspapers, plus moose and cheese for my sister.
Time for all these rags to get a bailout or a government takeover! Can’t have all these guys fail!
I like WSJ editorials but lately have been reading more Investors Business Daily opinion/editorials plus they have a Michael Ramirez cartoon — he’s the best. Do give IBD a look at.
Looks like they are all going green. Think of how many trees they are saving!
Less paper for the cleaning crew to dispose of, as well.
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.