Posted on 05/08/2006 7:51:09 AM PDT by george76
Newspaper circulation fell 2.6 percent in the six-month period ending in March, according to data released Monday, as the industry continued to struggle with competition from other media outlets and the Internet.
The decline in average paid weekday circulation was about the same as the previous time newspapers reported six-month circulation figures for the period ending last September, according to the Newspaper Association of America, a trade group.
The NAA reported that average paid circulation at Sunday newspapers fell 3.1 percent versus the same period a year ago, also a comparable decline with the last time circulation figures were reported.
Several top newspapers reported significant declines in the period, including Tribune Co.'s Los Angeles Times, down 5.4 percent at 851,832; The Washington Post, down 3.7 percent at 724,242; the New York Daily News, also down 3.7 percent at 708,477. News Corp.'s New York Post slipped 0.7 percent to 673,379.
The largest slump at a major daily came at the San Francisco Chronicle, where average paid weekday circulation fell 15.6 percent to 398,246 as the newspaper continued to cut back on less desirable circulation such as copies paid for by advertisers and then distributed for free.
Patricia Hoyt, a spokeswoman for the Chronicle, said the cutbacks began at the beginning of last year and involved copies that "advertisers didn't value, were quite costly and essentially had no impact on our readership."
The Chronicle, which is owned by Hearst Corp., reported a similar decline in paid circulation for the previous six-month reporting period that ended last September.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
Maybe this will calm your fears. Every other medium has required huge capital investment to have any serious reach. Printing presses, distribution systems, FCC licenses, TV studios, on-air "talent", big overhead, etc.
On the Internet anyone can publish worldwide for basically zero cost, and with limitless choice consumers can no longer be as easily herded into liberal-controlled brainwashing stations.
The thing to fear with the Internet is government censorship, a la china
Could CALSTARS ( California teachers ) and/or CALPERS thru Yucaipa be buying up old media friends to support the prices artificially ?
The hundreds of millions flowing from California retirement funds come courtesy of California Treasurer Phil Angelides...
http://www.nypost.com/postopinion/opedcolumnists/61087.htm
Ron Burkle and Bill Clinton would be able to financially help Pinch and friends at the old media.
This would only be a temporary fix for a short time.
An intriguing link worthy of more research. Let me see what I can find out.
Thanks for the link.
I think you need some RED X's!!
An honest and complete report would have noted that the industry also continues to struggle with the truth. I give the Internet 1.5 points and The Truth (or rather the lack of it) 1.1 points. Just another few hundred thousand people deciding they have had enough.
We post our own corrections and/or we get corrected by others.
The old media rarely posts a correction and always is in denial.
LOL, they are gonna come for you!
I get most of my news from FR and I'm the most informed person I know, by golly.
Leni
To publish is one thing - but can you create professional graphics, code real applications (besides HTML), and hire all of the standard business machinery to support a major website?
We are lucky that Jim Robinson did.... but most people don't have that ability.
I agree on the China-threat. Hillary is out for Matt Drudge's neck, I know that for a fact.
"Let's just see how effectively McCain/Feingold CFR works when I post this September, October, and early November within 60 days of the election on Canadian websites from a server in Hong Kong..... "
Sounds like a plan. Set up an off shore non profit and use servers out country.
"I cancelled my scrip to Pravda West, the St. Pete Slimes, about 10 years ago. Why should I feed the hand that bites me?"
Is it amazing how some Republicans/conservatives continue to fund their enemies by subscribing or buying left wing dinosaur fish wraps.
Leni
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