Posted on 10/15/2009 1:01:52 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Edited on 10/15/2009 3:17:09 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
NEW YORK (AP) - The Wall Street Journal has surpassed USA Today as the top-selling daily newspaper in the United States.
The Audit Bureau of Circulations won't be releasing its latest figures until Oct. 26, but the Journal said Wednesday that it gained about 12,000 subscribers in the April-September period, compared with a year earlier. That puts its average Monday-Friday circulation at 2.02 million.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
USA Today is struggling because of the recession and the flight of readers to the Web.
It is also being hit with a slump in travel, slowing traffic at the airports and hotels where it makes many of its single-copy sales.
No celebrating here....the WSJ is pro-illegal alien, pro-Globalist, anti-American....in some ways even worse than USA Today.
One elitist liberal overtaking another elitist liberal
USA Today is a cheap pulp rag; it never offered serious news. I look at it as something of a cross between the National Enquirer and your high school paper.
That news makes my day. The sleeping giant is slowly awakening.
I’d like to see the Washington Times become number one. It’s a great paper from the Conservative point of view.
Never really thought much of USA Today as a newspaper. It’s kind of a headline service. Not much in the way of reporting. Of course the whole industry is headed in that direction.
I’ve never purchased USA Today. I think that the only times I’ve ever read it were when I’d get a complimentary copy at a hotel.
At least the WSJ has some content worth reading. USA Today is like a bad powerpoint presentation.
At least they aren’t anti-capitalist!
The Wall Street Journal, like USA Today and the New York Times, has invested in the technology and infrastructure to be able to project national circulation. They are the only ones I know of who can deliver a daily to most locations in the US, certainly all urban locations. As much as I agree with you about the Wash Times, they simply don’t have the ability to do that.
Gannett can eat excrement and die ;-)
For those of you with an iPhone, you can sign up for the WSJ application FREE for now. If gives you all the articles from the WSJ — in fact you can download them and save them for later reading. I think it goes to a subscription service after the 26th (? or close) of this month. If you sign up now there’s a grace period of a couple of months before it cuts you off.
My father will go to great lengths when traveling to find a USA Today. I do not understand it - it’s like a dumbed down version of People Magazine, without the photos. The few times I have read parts of it - I’ve had the falling-off-the-edge-of-the-table sensation of reading past the end of the column - expecting the rest of the story to follow. If journalism like that dies, we lose nothing.
It’s been pretty solid for the 12 to 15 years I’ve been aware of it’s publication.
I do too. But that is not how circulation is being counted by the Audit Board of Circulation, SO FAR.
Thanks. That’s too bad.
The WSJ has long advocated open borders, which in a welfare state is madness.
USA is struggling because it is a bad newspaper.
#1 TV Network: Fox
#1 Paper: WSJ
#1 Radio: Rush
#1 Books: Beck / Levin
#1.....
Need to translate that into VOTES folks.
I agree that the WSJ is pro-law-breaking on immigration.
However, being pro-Globalist (i.e. a Free Trade advocate) is a good thing. I’m sure we could argue to a standstill on that one.
And, I can’t think of any way in which the WSJ is “anti-American”. I refuse that charge on the basis of 25+ years as a reader.
Huh? Don’t you read the WSJ editorials?
I don’t agree with their position on immigration but the majority of the editorial page is incomparable.
It’s true. But it’s also a darned fine paper.
It’s true. But it’s also a darned fine paper.
Front page stories today, Oct. 26 - Cover story if bundled payments can help slash health care costs; DOD has awarded six stimulus contracts to companies under suspicion of fraud; unknown dangers of smokeless cigarettes.
In the Money section today - Outlook for jobs turn positive; article exploring if retailers are going too far tracking customer's web habits; Penney's unveils new product line today.
It does not appear to be Enquirish to me. That line was used in the 80s. Get something new.
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