Posted on 10/26/2009 10:17:40 AM PDT by NormsRevenge
WASHINGTON (AFP) – Daily circulation figures for US newspapers released on Monday provided more bad news for the embattled industry.
Average daily circulation fell more than 10 percent in the April-September period compared with the same period last year, accelerating a slide that has led to bankruptcies, closures and cutbacks in newsrooms across the country.
Average circulation for 562 Sunday newspapers was down 7.49 percent.
The Audit Bureau of Circulations (ABC) figures also confirmed a claim made earlier this month by The Wall Street Journal that it had become the largest US newspaper by weekday circulation, leapfrogging USA Today.
Of the top 25 newspapers in the United States, the News Corp.-owned Journal was the only one to gain Monday-Friday circulation, rising 0.61 percent to 2.02 million.
USA Today's circulation fell 17.5 percent to 1.9 million.
The New York Times remained the third-largest newspaper in the country but its circulation declined 7.28 percent to 927,851.
Average daily circulation for 379 daily newspapers was down 10.62 percent at the end of September to 30.39 million from 34.0 million at the end of September 2008, according to the ABC.
The slide was greater than the 7.09 percent registered during the October to March period and the 4.64 percent decline during April to September last year.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...
Gee, what a bummer for the State Controlled Media. They’ll be getting bailed out next.
Mostly grownups read newspapers, and grownups are happy to see most of those commie rags die.
I gave up on the Hartford Koran(Courant) 5 years ago. My teenage daughter delivers the the Journal Inquirer. I am very proud of her. My first job was delivering the Hartford Times in 1971. They were the Hartford conservative newspaper until they went out of business in 1976.
They blame their decline on the internet and blogging, anything other than admit the truth. As long as the news get spun by liberal leftist editorialists most folks will not want to read it let alone pay for it.
I dont want most commie rags to die...the commie weeklies here in L.A. are great when you need to line garbage bags and absorb the liquid crap.
I just wrote my local newspaper and told them that if they shrink the paper any more or raise the price again that I will cancel.
After they all naturally die, I’ll laugh hard as I pis$ in their mouths while flies walk on their grey eyeballs....
SCREW THE STATE CONTROLLED MEDIA
I’m a former print journalist. This has been coming for a long, long time now. The decline of the print media predates the Internet, and even the home computer.
The reason is simple. Practically all the reporters and editors I knew - 10 years ago - were advocates, always for leftist causes. You tell your reader that they’re homophobic racist nationalists and eventually the customer walks away.
I used to love reading the paper on Sunday morning with a cup of coffee and a nice breakfast, and here is what I thinkn now: the newspaper deserves to die.
There is actually a use for the paper. I read the editorials to find what the lib govt wants to do to us, then I read the business section to find out what they are going to do to us. If you know how to read between the lines, it can be useful guide.
I stopped taking the Houston Chronicle probably 10 years ago. I sometimes do go to the store and buy the Sunday paper. Used to you could spend a hour or two reading it, enjoying your coffee, looking at all the ads, etc. Now, 20 minutes tops! There is nothing in it worth reading! On top of that, it’s like $2.00!
>>My first job was delivering the Hartford Times in 1971
I used to help my friend deliver the paper at about the same time. I remember knocking on doors and hollering “collecting.” And using the booklet of stamps with the two giant binder rings to keep track of who paid and who didn’t.
We thought we were so slick how we’d fold the paper so it’d make a good missile, and hit people’s front stoops without leaving our bikes. It was an art form! :) On Sundays the paper was too big to throw. On Wednesdays it had too many inserts to throw reliably, without it coming apart in mid air. And on Saturdays it was too small to throw because it didn’t have enough mass. But the other days we were sooo cool.
I didn’t mind the paper delivery part nearly as much as the collecting.
Wifey started a subscription to the local mercury fishwrap a couple years ago, it ran out a few months a go.. no loss. it had shrinken so much it almsot looked like a mailer, mostly ads and leftist pap.
| Rank | Newspaper | subscription | %change |
| 1 | THE WALL STREET JOURNAL | 2,024,269 | +0.61% |
| 2 | USA TODAY | 1,900,116 | -17.15% |
| 3 | THE NEW YORK TIMES | 927,851 | -7.28% |
| 4 | LOS ANGELES TIMES | 657,467 | -11.05% |
| 5 | THE WASHINGTON POST | 582,844 | -6.40% |
| 6 | DAILY NEWS (NEW YORK) | 544,167 | -13.98% |
| 7 | NEW YORK POST | 508,042 | -18.77% |
| 8 | CHICAGO TRIBUNE | 465,892 | -9.72% |
| 9 | HOUSTON CHRONICLE | 384,419 | -14.24% |
| 10 | THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER | 361,480 | N/A |
| 11 | NEWSDAY | 357,124 | -5.40% |
| 12 | THE DENVER POST | 340,949 | N/A |
| 13 | THE ARIZONA REPUBLIC | 316,874 | -12.30% |
| 14 | STAR TRIBUNE, MINNEAPOLIS | 304,543 | -5.53% |
| 15 | CHICAGO SUN-TIMES | 275,641 | -11.98% |
| 16 | The PLAIN DEALER, CLEVELAND | 271,180 | -11.24% |
| 17 | DETROIT FREE PRESS (e) | 269,729 | -9.56% |
| 18 | THE BOSTON GLOBE | 264,105 | -18.48% |
| 19 | THE DALLAS MORNING NEWS | 263,810 | -22.16% |
| 20 | THE SEATTLE TIMES | 263,588 | N/A |
| 21 | SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE | 251,782 | -25.82% |
| 22 | THE OREGONIAN | 249,163 | -12.06% |
| 23 | THE STAR-LEDGER, NEWARK | 246,006 | -22.22% |
| 24 | SAN DIEGO UNION-TRIBUNE | 242,705 | -10.05% |
| 25 | ST. PETERSBURG (FLA.) TIMES | 240,147 | -10.70% |
| Newspaper | Circulation | % change |
| YORK DAILY RECORD (PA.) | 55,370 | 16.45% |
| WOMEN'S WEAR DAILY | 53,142 | 14.31% |
| THE OAKLAND PRESS (MICH.) | 68,067 | 7.26% |
| LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL | 175,841 | 6.56% |
| CHATTANOOGA TIMES FREE PRESS (TENN.) | 69,569 | 2.18% |
| OGDEN STANDARD-EXAMINER (UTAH) | 62,062 | 1.89% |
| NEW HAVEN REGISTER (CONN.) | 70,559 | 0.79% |
| MOBILE PRESS-REGISTER (ALA.) | 92,849 | 0.75% |
| THE WALL STREET JOURNAL | 2,024,269 | 0.61% |
| THE FORUM, FARGO, N.D. | 50,131 | 0.39% |
After posting the 2 tables listing circulation.
Here is my conclusion, the Largest newspapers all lost subscribers, except for the Wall Street Journal. In the case of the WSJ they actually create much of their content, the other large papers normally rely heavily on AP feed.
All except 2 of the papers listed with gains are very near the 50,000 circulation level. I suspect they are focused on local markets and create more of their content.
This is about information not medium (print or electronic). The “efficiency” of the AP content is what is killing Newspapers.
Dallas Morning News is already the 19th smallest newspaper in the country while being in the eighth largest city.
They just dropped another 22%. 3rd highest in the country.
At what point do you say “hey, maybe printing all this liberal fishwrap is not such a good idea”?
You got that right. Liberalism, subjection and compulsion do not sell in Texas. AND Never Will.
AP feed is systematically killing the Newspaper industry in the U.S.
—
“Texas has yet to learn submission to any oppression, come from what source it may.” Sam Houston
“I used to love reading the paper on Sunday morning with a cup of coffee and a nice breakfast, and here is what I thinkn now: the newspaper deserves to die.”
////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
That literally used to be one of the things I enjoyed most in life, back when the editorials made sense and the comics page had “Lil Abner”, “Snuffy Smith” and “Pogo” and the classified ads were worth reading closely. I cancelled my home delivery many years ago and don’t expect to ever subscribe again.
It has been over 10 years since I subscribed to a daily newspaper.
When the family owned regional newspapers died, after the LBO craze, the papers were no longer worth reading. Those who bought up the regional papers were convinced that it was “unprofitable” to create news and that it could be purchased from AP cheaper than created in-house. “Bean Counter” mentality has killed the newspapers. Charletons with “Journalism School” degrees masquerading as newspapermen ran the industry right off the cliff.
Then came Watergate and these cretin felt empowered to go after anyone they did not agree with politically.
That brought us to this point.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.