The water is still rising at the Globe. From Forbes:Average daily (Monday through Friday) circulation fell 2.1% from the same period a year earlier among 745 newspapers that submitted data, according to the Newspaper Association of America's analysis of figures released Monday [April 30, 2007] by the Audit Bureau of Circulation. Average Sunday circulation sank 3.1% among 601 reporting papers.
Among the prominent losers were The New York Times, which saw average daily circulation fall 1.9% to 1,120,420; the Washington Post, which slipped 3.5% to 699,130; and the Boston Globe, which sank 3.7% to 382,503.
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GOOD! Maybe we'll run into some of these 'editorialists' as door greeters at Wal-Mart. Wouldn't that be the perfect irony.
Maybe this is too soon to starting singing, but....
Nah Nah Nah Na, Nah Nah Nah Na, Hey Hey Hey, Goodbye!
And you can be sure that these idiots will not be self-critical about all of this. They'll just blame the times and the internet.
Now maybe with the amount of paper being saved by the drop in circulation I can once again use more then one square (with Sheryl Crow's permission of course).
Think of the Carbon footprint reduction on Morrisey Blvd.
There are so many good things that will come out of this, but the size for blog comments is limited otherwise I would attempt to list them all right here. =)
Fortunately the drop in Globe readership is mirrored if not outdone by the drop in US Catholic church attendance.
It surprises me not the least bit, but I am not overjoyed to witness this decline which will eventually (if they have not reached it already!) lead to the Globe's complete irrelevance.
It was not really that long ago, in the big scheme of things, when they were a left-of-center paper with a stable of very good, even interesting, writers (especially in the Sports pages). The publisher and his nephews and cousins who ran the place were a group of Boston Brahmins who honestly thought they could "enlighten" the Irish lower classes who made up the overwhelming majority of the city and its surrounding suburbs...but time quickly passed them by, and the Manhattan wannabes who took their place deserve all the sneers and curses they receive...they earned every one.
"Fortunately the drop in Globe readership is mirrored if not outdone by the drop in US Catholic church attendance."
Nice one. Now here's my offering: "Fortunately the drop in population in Massachusetts is mirrored if not outdone by the drop in esteem of the state."
Compared with places like say.... Alabama, I think we're doing okay. If you like it leave. Isn't that what right wingers always say. Eh, you already have. Well it still applies to these other cheerleaders.
"don't like it".... typo
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