As noted previously, The New York Times and other newspapers are continuing their sharp decline. Editor & Publisher reports today that Sunday circulation for The New York Times fell a whopping 9.2%, while its daily rate fell by nearly 4% for the six-month period ending March 31, 2008. The story's much the same for other major liberal papers: the LA Times daily circulation dropped 5.1%, while Sunday declined 6.0%.
Boston Globe: 8.3% drop in daily; Sunday declined 6.4%. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution declined 8.5%; Sunday circulation dropped 5%. The Orange County Register plunged 11.9% to 250,724 and Sunday fell 5.3% to 311,982.
You'd think that the editorial boards and investors would buy a clue. Leftist propaganda under the guise of "news" just doesn't sell. What they're reaping is only to be expected from what they've sown: when you hire folks like this clown, who got into "journalism" not because they want to report news, but because, in the words of Jonathan Nicholas, they wanted "to make a difference", this is what you end up with. They may be oh-so-"politically correct", registered Democrats, and generally hard-core Leftists - but they aren't journalists. And the result is dropping subscriptions, fleeing advertisers, loss of credibility, loss of respect. In the last few decades, journalists are now about on par with used-car salesmen and door-to-door vacuum salesmen in terms of public perception. And they've worked hard to get there.