Circulation of U.S. weekday newspapers takes 2.6% hit

[Algorem]

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/11/08/BUGSOFKG991.DTL

Chronicle leads pack with 16.6% decline during 6-month period

Tom Abate, Chronicle Staff Writer

Tuesday, November 8, 2005

The average weekday circulation of U.S. daily newspapers fell 2.6 percent in the six months that ended in September, led by a 16.6 percent drop for The Chronicle.

The figures released Monday by the Audit Bureau of Circulation, which certifies the accuracy of sales figures, continues a long-term trend of flat to sinking readership.

The average Sunday circulation for U.S. dailies fell 3.1 percent, compared with September 2004, according to an analysis by the Newspaper Association of America.

The Chronicle said its paid Sunday circulation declined 13.5 percent to 467,216 copies. On Monday through Saturday, it averaged sales of 400,906 copies during the six-month period...

[waiting for hope]

1. Print rag

is having a hard time competing with internet news and cable tv - it's going to be bad for the big news moguls because internet news publishing isn't half as profitable as the printed version. Maybe this will change the tone on how the news is distributed and on what platform they decided to send it - honest or political skewed.:bounce:

[MindPilot]

2. Looks like they misunderestimated the literacy levels of the neo-cons

I un-subscribed from my local right wing rag years ago. And I can't imagine your average frothing freeper reading something when he can get exactly the same daily talking points from Rush & Faux.

[LiberalEsto]

3. Time to stop being stenographers

and return to real journalism

[acmavm]

4. Maybe if they weren't such lying whores for the most corrupt admin

that ever disgraced Washington D.C., they wouldn't be watching their futures going down the tubes as we speak. Intelligent people know they've been lied and are being lied to by the corporate news cabal.