October 31, 2006
Daily Rags Reads
Hugh Hewitt highlights newspaper circulation from around the nation.
In my corner.
- At The Philadelphia Inquirer, daily fell 7.5% to 330,622 while Sunday declined 4.5% to 682,214. Daily circulation at its sister pub, The Philadelphia Daily News, dropped 7% to 112,540.
In unrelated news, Inquirer/Daily News staff is threatening a strike.
It'd be refreshing the vaunted new "conservative" ownership would crack the whip, but I suspect not.
In the meantime, a Philly paper worth reading, The Evening Bulletin, will continue to truck on.
Update: It's intentional?
Media and Blogging Posted by AlexC at October 31, 2006 2:20 PM
When I read that conservatives were actively buying up major dailies my heart fluttered. Then I recalled Ayn Rand's prediction [in The Fountainhead] of what would happen if newspapers ever progressed from printing doom and gloom and murder and rape to trumpeting the power and the glory of human achievement - circulation plummeted.
All told, however, this is the one Rand assertion I find least convincing. I still have more hope for humanity than this.
If nothing else the new owners are more likely to find ways to make the news business profitable again.
Posted by: johngalt at October 31, 2006 3:20 PMMaybe they could start printing a section that serializes the bible as a comic strip ... you know, appeal to the uneducated red-neck Jesus freaks like me. At least we would think twice about descecrating it at every opportunity.
Posted by: mdmhvonpa at October 31, 2006 6:54 PM | What do you think? [2]