The hated “mainstream media” is slowing but surely coming back to the field, as circulation numbers at practically all of America’s Top 25 newspapers are down from last year.
Only USA Today – which let’s face it, people, is a bunch of cartoons – and The Wall Street Journal managed to buck the national trend, and their numbers were flat.
Every other major daily showed declining readership, which will no doubt fuel yet another abysmal year for print advertising revenue.
Here are the numbers from the Audit Bureau of Circulations, courtesy of Editor & Publisher:
1. USA TODAY – 2,293,310 – 0.01%
2. THE WALL STREET JOURNAL – 2,011,999 – 0.01%
3. NEW YORK TIMES – 1,000,665 – (-3.58%)
4. LOS ANGELES TIMES – 739,147 – (-5.20%)
5. DAILY NEWS, NEW YORK – 632,595 – (-7.16%)
6. NEW YORK POST – 625,421 – (-6.25%)
7. THE WASHINGTON POST – 622,714 – (-1.94%)
8. CHICAGO TRIBUNE – 516,032 – (-7.75%)
9. HOUSTON CHRONICLE – 448,271 – (-11.66%)
10. NEWSDAY – 377,517 – (-2.58%)
11. THE ARIZONA REPUBLIC – 361,333 – (-5.51%)
12. SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE – 339,430 – (-7.07%)
13. THE DALLAS MORNING NEWS – 338,933 – (-9.28%)
14. BOSTON GLOBE – 323,983 – (-10.18%)
15. STAR TRIBUNE, MINNEAPOLIS – 322,360 – (-4.26%)
16. STAR-LEDGER, NEWARK, N.J. – 316,280 – (-10.40%)
17. CHICAGO SUN-TIMES – 313,176 – (-3.94%)
18. PLAIN DEALER, CLEVELAND – 305,529 – (-8.58%)
19. THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER – 300,674 – (-11.06%)
20. DETROIT FREE PRESS – 298,243 – (-6.84%)
21. THE OREGONIAN – 283,321 – (-8.45%)
22. THE ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION – 274,999 – (-13.62%)
23. SAN DIEGO UNION-TRIBUNE – 269,819 – (-3.00%)
24. ST. PETERSBURG (FLA.) TIMES – 268,935 – (-6.88%)
25. THE SACRAMENTO BEE – 253,249 – (-4.22%)
Remember, “parentheses = bad.”
In related news, FITS had our best month ever with eleventy kabillion “unique visits.”
By reprobate October 29, 2008 at 7:20 am
Thanks, FITS. Keep on calling it like you see it, and not how you would like to see it.
By rick October 29, 2008 at 8:01 am
Good….the lame stream media abrogated their responsibility to give the American Media the facts and allow the people to make up their minds…instead they hid the facts behind Hussein and failed to let the American people decide after knowing the facts. Since they are so enamored with Hussein and his wealth distribution….hopefully they’ll be number one in the unemployment line and centrally located when the terrorists come hunting.
By Aunt B October 29, 2008 at 10:20 am
Keep at it Will. The paper in this town has a polluted ink well. May it either be purified or run dry.
By BIN News Editorial Staff October 29, 2008 at 6:31 pm
Congratulations to sic(k) willie for continuing to inflate the hit count of this porn site. Actually more of a site confused between focusing on porn or rumor.