I read them because I used to like getting them; however, now I get them because I notice more than if I surfed.
But the blogs are huge and cover things so much better, this sucks.
Then, there is the issue of reposts, because I don't do commentaries.
And that's the blogs purpose.
What annoys me is that these papers say the business is trending to the web -- but they don't listen or look at the web, they just wallow in their own shit!
On top of all this, they want to CHARGE ME AGAIN after I've bought them all these years for not linking the pieces so their ads can be displayed.
Because they are LOSING he monopoly they've had on the public for soooooo long!
Fine, I'll link and chop shit then, asshole liars!
Newspaper circulation still falling; but website readership seen growing
Of course, if the article is removed, guess we'd want a record like a clipping, huh?
"Newspaper circulation still on decline
By Carolyn Y. Johnson, Globe Staff | November 6, 2007
Newspaper circulation continues to decline in Massachusetts and across the country, according to a report issued yesterday. But for the first time, the data also included figures for newspaper websites to measure the growth of online readership.
Nationwide, average daily paid newspaper circulation declined 2.6 percent in the six months that ended Sept. 30, compared with the previous year, according to the Audit Bureau of Circulations, an independent organization that monitors the industry. Sunday cir culation dropped 3.5 percent nationwide during the same period.
Massachusetts newspapers on the whole suffered steeper declines. Average daily paid circulation dropped 4.8 percent, and Sunday circulation fell 4.6 percent, compared with the same time period a year earlier.
"It's scary because it's a fairly rapid descent, in an area where declining circulation has now come to be something we live with," said Stephen Burgard, director of Northeastern University's School of Journalism. Boston has suffered more than other markets, he said, because of its large number of Web-savvy readers with high-speed Internet access.
Average daily paid circulation at The Boston Globe fell nearly 6.7 percent to 360,695, compared with the same period last year. Sunday circulation fell 6.5 percent, to 548,906. The Boston Herald's daily paid circulation dropped 8.7 percent, to 185,832. Sunday circulation slipped 5.6 percent, to 108,816.
Circulation also dropped at the state's other daily newspapers. Daily paid circulation at the Worcester Telegram & Gazette fell 5.3 percent. The paper, like the Globe, is owned by The New York Times Co. The Patriot Ledger, which recently trimmed 130 full- and part-time employees from its staff, dropped 2.2 percent.
In an effort to demonstrate to advertisers that overall readership is growing even as print circulation drops, 206 newspapers began combining circulation, readership, and online measurements to provide a combined picture of how many people are reading their content.
The Globe, which this week is launching the redesign of its website, Boston.com, reported 2.3 million combined print and online readers in the Boston market, 4.2 million unique visitors to the website, and 61 million page views.
"I love that they're talking about audience - that's truly the metric" of the newspaper's reach, Susan Hunt Stevens, senior vice president of circulation and marketing at the Globe, said of the Audit Bureau of Circulations report. "What I think these numbers demonstrate is our clear lead."
The new data were gathered through a joint initiative by the Audit Bureau of Circulations, Scarborough Research, and the Newspaper Association of America. The online data were provided by Web measurement companies such as Nielsen//NetRatings, comScore Inc., and Omniture.
While newspapers' online presence has expanded their reach, online revenue still constitutes a small fraction of overall income, as the newspaper industry struggles to adapt to an online environment with many more competitors and new revenue models.
Among the top daily newspapers nationally, a few posted gains in average daily paid circulation. USA Today grew by 1 percent, the Los Angeles Times posted a 0.5 percent gain, and The Philadelphia Inquirer rose by 2.3 percent.
But many major metropolitan newspapers did not fare well overall. The New York Times's average paid daily circulation fell 4.5 percent, The Dallas Morning news saw its circulation drop 7.7 percent, and the Minneapolis Star-Tribune lost 6.5 percent.
"You've actually got more eyeballs looking at journalism than ever before," Burgard said. "Because it's not just the primary circulation area - you're getting readers from far-flung places and things in Boston in science, health, education, and sports are an area of interest to people around the country and around the world."
New York Times knows it, too:
Advertising: More Readers Trading Newspapers for Web Sites
By RICHARD PÉREZ-PEÑA
THE circulation declines of American newspapers continued over the spring and summer, as sales across the industry fell almost 3 percent compared with the year before, according to figures released yesterday.
The drop, reported by the Audit Bureau of Circulations, reflects the growing shift of readers to the Internet, where newspaper readership has climbed, and also a strategy by many major papers to shed unprofitable or marginally profitable print circulation.
Among the nation’s largest newspapers, only a handful held their own or registered slight increases in overall paid circulation for the period from April 1 to Sept. 30: USA Today, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Houston Chronicle and The St. Petersburg Times. Most papers showed significant declines, both weekday and Sunday.
For the first time, the audit bureau released, along with the traditional circulation figures, numbers produced by Scarborough Reports that reflected the total number of readers, both in print and online, for more than 200 newspapers in their home markets. For many of those papers, this marks the first time that such an independent analysis has been done, providing a benchmark for future reports.
Industry executives said they hoped the new numbers would put a more positive cast on newspapers’ prospects than the routinely gloomy paid circulation reports have done.
“We do feel that there’s a story that’s been missed here,” said Stephen P. Hills, president and general manager of The Washington Post. There is good news about readership, he said, “but you wouldn’t know that to read the newspapers.”
An analysis of 88 major papers showed that in the last two years, about half had seen no significant change in combined print and online readership, or showed an increase, said Bob Cohen, president and chief executive officer of Scarborough.
The industry also hopes that the new readership figures will make an impression on advertisers, who have broken with historical patterns by retreating from newspapers despite an expanding economy. Executives noted that newspaper Web sites — unlike their print counterparts — drew a lot of young adults, who are sought by advertisers.
But advertisers have generally not considered an online reader to be as valuable as a print reader, so it remains to be seen what effect the numbers will have.
The audit bureau report showed a 2.6 percent decline in paid weekday circulation from the year-earlier period for more than 500 newspapers whose figures were available, and a 4.6 percent drop on Sundays for more than 600 newspapers.
USA Today, the top-selling weekday newspaper in the country — it does not publish on weekends — had a 1 percent increase in circulation, to about 2.3 million.
Sales of The Wall Street Journal, which does not publish on Sundays, fell 1.5 percent, to about 2 million. The Journal charges for access to most of its Web site, and the paper said yesterday that online subscriptions, which are included in the paid circulation figures, had topped 1 million.
The New York Times, which shed less-profitable circulation and increased some prices in the last year, lost 4.5 percent of its weekday circulation (to less than 1.04 million) and 7.6 percent of its Sunday circulation (to 1.5 million).
The circulation of The Los Angeles Times, which reached 1.1 million daily early in this decade, may have bottomed out after several years of steep declines. For the second straight six-month period, weekday sales held steady, at 780,000, but Sunday circulation dropped 5 percent, to about 1.1 million.
In New York City’s tabloid war, The New York Post fell slightly behind The Daily News in weekday circulation, 667,000 to 681,000, and The News continued to lead in Sunday sales by a wide margin. But both papers lost circulation, after topping 700,000 in the six-month period that ended March 31."
They all made profits, though, so don't worry!
Newspapers and their websites suck!
And EVERYBODY KNOWS IT!
Poll finds nearly 80 percent of U.S. adults go online
