Posted by
drpete on Monday, April 27, 2009 3:15:42 PM
The hue and cry that the truth just cannot get out, given the obvious liberal bias of the "mainstream media", is ubiquitous among Townhall bloggers and commenters. Then, there is also the more-recent phenomenon of "leg tingling" and the like over President Obama.
Below, I offer hope, that because there is change.
The top 25 U.S. newspapers daily circulation
from October 2008 through March 2009. The percentage changes are from the same
year-ago period.
1. USA Today down 7.5 percent.
2. The Wall Street Journal up 0.6 percent.
3. The New York Times down 3.5 percent.
4. Los Angeles Times down 6.6 percent.
5. The Washington Post down 1.2 percent.
6. Daily News of New York down 14.3 percent.
7. New York Post down 20.5 percent.
8. Chicago Tribune down 7.5 percent.
9. Houston Chronicle down 14 percent.
10. The Arizona Republic of Phoenix down 5.7 percent.
11.
The Denver Post newspaper took over subscriptions from Rocky
Mountain News when that newspaper folded with the Feb. 27 edition. Comparison not possible.
12. Newsday of Long Island, N.Y. down 3 percent.
13. The Dallas Morning News down 9.9 percent.
14. Star Tribune of Minneapolis down 0.7 percent.
15. Chicago Sun-Times down 0.04 percent.
16. San Francisco Chronicle down 15.7 percent.
17. The Boston Globe down 13.7 percent.
18. The Plain Dealer of Cleveland down 11.7 percent.
19. Detroit Free Press down 5.9 percent.
20. The Philadelphia Inquirer down 13.7 percent.
21. The Star-Ledger of Newark, N.J.down 16.8 percent.
22. St. Petersburg (Fla.) Times down 10.4 percent.
23. The Oregonian of Portland down 11.8 percent.
24. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution down 19.9 percent.
25. The San Diego Union-Tribune down 9.5 percent.
Re: network evening news: CBS and ABC together lost nearly 2 million viewers, or a
combined 10 percent, during the Iraq war period, according to Nielsen Media Research.
Whether daytime or primetime, Fox News Channel has more viewers than CNN, MSNBC and CNBC combined.
U.S. News & World Report has effectively abandoned the print news
magazine format in favor of producing monthly guides, leaving news
coverage to its website. In 2009, according to Pew Research, when asked specifically about news magazines, 12% reported
reading one “regularly,” down 2 percentage points from 2006 and down 6
percentage points from a similar survey in 1994.
Circulation for all of the three biggest news magazines declined in
the first half of 2008, the latest period for which comparable data are
available.
Newsweek and U.S. News both
had substantial losses in total sales (subscription or single copy
sales). Newsweek fell to 2.7 million copies per week in the first six
months of 2008, down 13% from the same period in 2007. U.S. News fell
to 1.8 million, or 10% (bigger changes came later in the year). Time
had a negligible decline, down three-tenths of 1 percent, to 3.4
million.