New York Times Sliding Into Oblivion?
chronwatch.com
.....But two newspapers suffered significant declines in circulation in the last six months--both of them owned by the New York Times Company. One was the Times itself, which lost 5.3 percent of its readers in that period. The other was the Boston Globe, which lost 6.3 percent of its readers.
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The New York Times has been on the way down because of political correctness long before the name Jayson Blair became synonymous with fraud and deceit. Readers have been rejecting the Times and the direction it has taken under Executive Editor Howell Raines.
In fact, in the last six months alone, 63,751 of them have quit. That's enough circulation to start a fairly sizable daily newspaper in a medium-size market. On top of that, its sister paper to the north, now under New York Times management, lost nearly 30,000 readers in that period.
The Times, famous for its Sunday paper, the largest in the United States, also lost 62,000 readers for that edition, too. The Globe lost nearly 25,000 Sunday readers.
No other major paper came close to these losses..... |
