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Mainstream media, collapsing since 2020, loses 40% online audience, faces existential threat. Physical circulation hits 1940 levels.
Citizen Watch Report ^

Posted on 12/03/2023 5:58:48 PM PST by davikkm

Mainstream media faces a dire decline, losing 40% of online audience since 2020, triggering attacks and revealing an existential struggle.

What is even worse are the physical subscription numbers. The physical US Newspaper circulation is below what was distributed in 1940. Is this a spiral of doom for mainstream media?

People used to have to pay for the paper to be delivered. Once the Internet became a force, digital advertisers picked up the gap between subscribers and media for online consumption. Then the coverage got worse.

(Excerpt) Read more at citizenwatchreport.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Politics
KEYWORDS: blogpimp; davikkkm; fakenews; mainstreammedia; msm; naziblog
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1 posted on 12/03/2023 5:58:48 PM PST by davikkm
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To: davikkm

They have not earned my readership. Heck with them.


2 posted on 12/03/2023 6:07:48 PM PST by Persevero (You cannot comply your way out of tyranny. )
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To: davikkm

Corporate media is shrinking while independent media is rising. I see this as a good thing.


3 posted on 12/03/2023 6:09:37 PM PST by Boomer (The Long Winter is coming...)
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To: davikkm

Yet, rampant voter fraud in the U.S. is still going strong. None of this really matters.


4 posted on 12/03/2023 6:09:55 PM PST by Vahan1987
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To: davikkm

See my tagline


5 posted on 12/03/2023 6:10:18 PM PST by janetjanet998 (Legacy media including youtube are the enemy of the people and must die)
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To: davikkm

I’m generally opposed to “stuggle sessions”, but I’m all in favor of them if the struggle is MSM existing or not!


6 posted on 12/03/2023 6:10:40 PM PST by Nervous Tick ("First the Saturday people, then the Sunday people...": ISLAM is the problem!)
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To: davikkm

Not even worth watching for the weather anymore. We no longer have a free press. They restructured to accelerated state propaganda schemes from a slippery some a few decades ago.


7 posted on 12/03/2023 6:12:27 PM PST by blackdog ((Z28.310) My dog Sam eats purple flowers.)
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8 posted on 12/03/2023 6:17:47 PM PST by Songcraft ( )
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To: davikkm
Mainstream media, collapsing since 2020, loses 40% online audience, faces existential threat. Physical circulation hits 1940 levels.

Is the Death of the Western Mainstream Media and "Journalism" too much to hope for?

9 posted on 12/03/2023 6:18:33 PM PST by Navy Patriot (Celebrate Decivilization)
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To: davikkm

Good.


10 posted on 12/03/2023 6:20:29 PM PST by Fido969 (45 is Superman! )
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To: davikkm

For all their wokeness, they still keep sadistically killing trees by the millions, and printing lies on them.


11 posted on 12/03/2023 6:22:53 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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Why does anyone keep subsidizing archaic horse and buggy paper media?

It would be like subsidizing horse wagons and horse breeders today. Can’t compete with modern transit options.


12 posted on 12/03/2023 6:24:38 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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Despite losing money, the MSM won’t slow down a bit in pushing leftwing propaganda. In their minds, their primary goal is to serve the Democrat party, not earning a profit. Besides, they know super rich Establishment people will keep their putrid operation afloat.


13 posted on 12/03/2023 6:51:04 PM PST by Dan in Wichita
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local news outlets: papers, radio, tv are what conservatives need to target. get the word to the pretend journalists populating whatever local news sources are in your town and hold their feet (and their advertiser’s feet) to the fire.

make them stop repeating whatever the national news is saying. make them do real reporting.


14 posted on 12/03/2023 6:58:00 PM PST by Recovering_Democrat
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To: davikkm

The last time I read a newspaper was many years ago. The local newspaper here had an editorial calling for more immigration because, it said, a flower garden looks better when it has many flowers mixed together. Thinking that such stupidity is dangerous, I quit reading it.


15 posted on 12/03/2023 7:13:34 PM PST by odawg
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“”””
Mainstream media faces a dire decline, losing 40% of online audience since 2020,”””


If it were not foe Free Republic where we post the silly news reports from mainstream media, the online audience decline would be greater than 40%.


16 posted on 12/03/2023 7:16:58 PM PST by Presbyterian Reporter
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“It would be like subsidizing horse wagons and horse breeders today. Can’t compete with modern transit options.”

If the leftists get their way, horses may soon be among the better options you’ll have.

17 posted on 12/03/2023 7:20:56 PM PST by Sicon ("All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - G. Orwell>)
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To: Dan in Wichita

As long as they are part of basic cable they get paid Everytime a customer pays their bill.

Even if no one watches.


18 posted on 12/03/2023 7:38:58 PM PST by cableguymn
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To: davikkm

Wouldn’t their 1940 levels be high? There were people who didn’t own radios in the 1940s... Their only news would be in newspaper format.


19 posted on 12/03/2023 7:42:42 PM PST by jerod (Nazis were essentially Socialist in Hugo Boss uniforms... Get over it!)
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To: odawg

Sounds like a line from Being There.

Was the editorial written by C. Gardener?


20 posted on 12/03/2023 10:07:06 PM PST by Regulator (It's fraud, Jim)
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