Oregonian's falling circulation

Willamette Week ^ | November 9, 2005 | Editorial staff

[DuckFan4ever]

Lousy circulation numbers may help explain why The Oregonian's felt a need to move to "high-definition Sundays," the mid-September makeover much mocked by the paper's reporters. The O's Sunday circulation numbers for the six-month period ending Sept. 30 fell 2.5 percent, to 394,992 Sunday subscribers, a number below the 400,000-subscriber figure that triggers higher ad rates. Not that The Oregonian was alone in the decline: National numbers reported Monday by the Audit Bureau of Circulations showed only one of 17 large papers (The New York Times) gaining readers on Sundays.

[DuckFan4ever]

Top 150 Newspapers by Largest Reported Circulation

[DuckFan4ever]

Oregon Ping

[ncountylee]

A very offensive yellow sheet - great news.

[Danae]

Only good thing that rag does: my cats willing poop on it.

[Paleo Conservative]

[CFC__VRWC]

National numbers reported Monday by the Audit Bureau of Circulations showed only one of 17 large papers (The New York Times) gaining readers on Sundays.

And the only reason that's happening is because the Slimes is practically begging people to take the thing for free.

[SamAdams76]

I cancelled the last of my print subscriptions a few weeks ago. Newspapers and magazines are totally irrelevant because of the Internet and time-shift podcasting. Even broadcast radio is irrelevant. I get exposed to new music from satellite radio and I time-shift my favorite radio talk shows using Radioshark. I simply burn my favorite radio shows to MP3 and take them on the road with my iPod.

[investigateworld]

Most California's, the states largest source of growth, soon realize the Oregonian is nothing more than the Northern Edition of the LA Times.
But the Oregonian is an important source of ads and coupons.

[SteveMcKing]

All the cool kids are reading newspapers. I know. I always bring a big fat Boston Globe to parties, and people keep talking about me!

From the posers in Harvard Square, to the players in Beverley Hills -- newspapers are IN, baby...

[JCEccles]

I live in the reddest of the red states. Even here the local wide-circulation newspaper leans left. The truth that the publisher and editors refuse to admit is that the newspaper is really sustained by its elderly readers, and primarily for the obituaries, not the news or editorials.

Every day the newspaper publishes obituaries of devoted readers who have "joined the choir invisible", and who are not being replaced by younger readers. Ironically, the obituary pages are a daily chronicle of the newspaper's own slow death throes.

The day the leftist rags all die cannot come to soon.

[EagleUSA]

But the Oregonian is an important source of ads and coupons.
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And wrapping your latest fish catch... :-)

[Danae]

Yes indeed! But Salmon season is over now so no wonder the rate dropped!!!

[Eric in the Ozarks]

You nailed it. If you take one day of the week, they'll give you three or four more free.

[investigateworld]

Great fire starter too.
The Oregonian kind of blew it when they got scooped on the former Democratic Governor's abuse of a 14 YOA child.
Then they tried to spin it as "an affair". That's when the fit hit the sand, but as good Democrats, they took one for the team.

[Grampa Dave]

Their Sunday newspaper isn't selling well down the SW area either.

10 years ago if you didn't buy the Sunday paper early from a stand in the SW area, you couldn't get one.

Now in the late afternoon on Sunday most grocery stores and other stores which carry the Sunday Oregonian have stacks of them. The clerks, say, no one wants to buy them.

We are seeing the same thing in N California. Stacks of the Sunday San Francisco Gayrhonicle have to be cleared out by the newspaper delivery people on Monday. The Gayrhonicle had the biggest drop in circulation last month of all major newspaper.

These left wing fish wraps are on their way out. Our local Sunday newspaper re its weight total up is now up to 80% in ad flyers.

[APFel]

Scene: My home, sometime midweek this last week.

Phone rings. I answer.

Saleswoman: Hi! This is Cynthia from the Minneapolis Star Tribune! How are you doing today? We noticed that you canceled your subscription a few months ago (digression: this confused me as well because it was over a year ago and they "noticed"...? It was weird) and we wondered how we could get you back.

Me: You can start by firing the editorial staff.

Her: (laughs) Well, we...

Me: Look, you people call be about once a week, sometimes twice a week. When I canceled my subscription, I intended to never buy your paper again. I tell you this every time you call, but you still call. So I want to be clear here. Put me on your do not call list. I don't want you people to call me anymore, as I will never subscribe again.

Her: No answer.

A few seconds later, I noticed that she had already hung up, probably mid-rant. I hope she got that "do not call" message, because I'm going to leave the next salesperson from the Strib with a massive complex.

APf

[ex-Texan]

The Oregonian is a waste of perfectly good printers' ink. Of course, if you really must have those coupons, I recommend dropping by the nearest Starbucks, Mickie D's, or donut shop or to grab a used paper. Free is a very good price for a rag that corrupt and despicable.

[Arrowhead1952]

National numbers reported Monday by the Audit Bureau of Circulations showed only one of 17 large papers (The New York Times) gaining readers on Sundays.

And the only reason that's happening is because the Slimes is practically begging people to take the thing for free.

The Austin Un American Ultra Liberal Non Statesman is throwing FREE papers one every two weeks and one Sunday paper per month.

[Landru]

Here it is again, fellas.

A definite sign the Liberal-Socialists who've taken over the nation's information highways are running the businesses clean into the ground.

Yet it's funny how deep in denial the ownership of these entities must be for them not to see the direct correlation between what the editor(s) [they've hired] are producing, the rejection of their customers to their "product" & the tanking of their business.
Simply amazing.

It's either that?
Or losing the business while getting the Liberal-Socialist message out -- visa vi the entire L-S modus operandi & constant efforts at social engineering?
That outcome has been accepted by these new fangled brainstems as simply collateral damage in pursuit of the cause.

And even if it has been accepted by the Big Bugs to deliberately lose the business, wonder what the individual stockholders are thinking as surely they see their investments fade away?

In any event if it's the latter, so be it.

...the free market at work. ;^)

[R.W.Ratikal]

Let's face it, cable news and the internet have moved the daily newspaper off the stage. I know many people who have not read a newspaper in over twenty years and many young people who have never subscribed to a newspaper.

But it's not all technology that has made newspapers obsolete. The left-wing position of most large circulation papers has played a prominent part is turning readers off.

The far left Cox paper, the Atlanta Journal Constitution in Atlanta, for example, has a circulation of about 300,000 in a metropolitan area of over 3 million people.

Ironically, part of the problem is that too many people are functionally illiterate. The education system that large dailies support are turning out people who can not bring themselves to read anything much more complicated than a STOP sign.