More bad news for newspaper circulation.
Daily circulation of American newspapers continued to slide during the six-month period that ended in March, dropping 2.5 percent from the same period a year ago, according to figures released yesterday by the Audit Bureau of Circulations.Sunday circulation fared even worse, dropping 3.1 percent.
The figures are comparable to the declines of the previous six-month period, which were the steepest in any comparable six-month period in the last 15 years.
i saw a report weeks ago. The US press group paid a visit to China and interview somes. The report said some US newspapaer was reducing their editors and journalists team cause of circulation declining, and some even turning to web news business.
But the German newspaper tycoon Mathias Doepfner said only yesterday: “As an information carrier, papers may be replaced by electronic paper. But the function of the newspaper is irreplaceable.” See more in signandsight.com.
Meanwhile, online, newspapers gained 8 million readers for a net gain of 5 million readers in one year. So it was really good news for newspapers
Ben, newspapers were online before the word blog was invented. Get with the program, buddy
Meanwhile, Fox News ratings drop 17% and CNN 38% and no comment?
If the New York Times is headlining the White House spin that Gross left because of a feud with Negreponte 12 hours after I read on the blogs that Gross is linked to the Cunningham/Hooker/Poker scandal, why again would I want to read the Times?
Meanwhile, there’s mud being flung in the local Teaneck elections today — 14 candidates! — and I can’t imagine the Bergen Record being able to write a story that would truly clarify things and inform me. Not with a reporter beign given only 1000 words and 24 hours to cover it.
Meanwhile, Salman Rushdie gave an address to a local graduating class down here in Broward County FL, but there are NO reports about what he said– it’s a COMPLETE BLACKOUT. I finally managed to find a few youngsters who were there; the only thing they were willing to say about it was: “Rushdie was awesome!” South Florida is so illiterate that no one here on the staff or management of any daily or weekly newspaper thinks that Salman Rushdie is important enough to report what he said to hundreds or maybe thousands of people. The population is only utilitarian literate: they can read the back of a cereal box. But otherwise, they are barely more literate than the population of Afghanistan. Welcome to Browardstan, perhaps well on its way to becoming the next South Bronx.
don surber is a funny old man, in a heap of denial.