Newspaper Circulation Plummets
Newspaper circulation plummeted again over the most recent reporting period, according to data released this week by the Audit Bureau of Circulations.
The average major daily newspaper saw its circulation fall by 7% over the last six months – a much steeper decline than the previous reporting periods.
Several regional papers – including the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and the Charlotte Observer – saw double-digit declines.
Of the top five papers nationally, only the Wall Street Journal showed growth in readership.
More information on these losses is available at MarketWatch.
Here in South Carolina, liberal La Socialista (a.k.a. The State newspaper) saw its weekday circulation fall under 100,000 for the first time in six decades.
La Socialista’s Sunday circulation also dropped to 122,539 – a 12% decline.
You can read more about La Socialista’s numbers over on Cotton Boll Conspiracy.
Not surprisingly, the bad numbers across the board have once again fueled talk of a “newspaper bailout.”
Comments
By hammerheadSC on April 29th, 2009 at 1:24 pm
take out the # of employees that work there and have a subscription taken out of their take home pay. Just one of their ways of padding the numbers.
By James the Foot Soldier on April 29th, 2009 at 4:41 pm
I’m sure this data was BEFORE The State raised the price of its paper 50%.
Three lessons to be learned:
#1: Only a total MORON would raise prices in the throes of a recession. It goes without saying economics has never been the strong suit of liberals.
#2: Only an in-bred knuckle-dragger would buy that piece of shit “news”paper and think they were actually getting news.
#3: Conservatives can do their part to nail the coffin lid on these democrat party tools and NEVER buy a liberal rag again.
PEACE THROUGH STRENGTH