"Circulation fell 10.1% to 212,293 at the Orange County Register and dropped 10% to 242,705 at the San Diego Union-Tribune. In the Bay Area, the circulation of the San Francisco Chronicle fell 26% to 251,782, while the Oakland Tribune recorded a 7.3% increase in subscribers to 68,067 — one of the biggest percentage gains among the handful of dailies that reported increases."
Read more in the Los Angeles Times.
October 27th, 2009 at 12:00 am
The S.F. Chronicle is getting what it deserves. Everyone knows they are a far left paper where the political reporting and the editorial pages indistinguishable. They act as if the San Francisco Republican Party and their candidate don’t exist. They endorsed Tom Ammiano without interviewing Harmeet Dhillon. Even worse, they’ve cut way back on content and raised the price for home delivery to $62.00 for 8 weeks which is over $400 per year.
October 27th, 2009 at 12:00 am
Flash Report “FANS”:
Literacy declines, a huge reason for the newspaper readership morass. Our public schools turn out some real dozeees don’t they?
Also, critical thinking is not encouraged in high schools; and in college revisionism has given us beliefs….of course, Columbus ran Italian day care centers in ancient America and Lew Alcindor invented Babe Ruth bars.
A solution for newspapers is a CD disc delivered daily to play on TV or computers….California is territory appealing to visual learners….give em lots of cartoons, popups, a little Dora the Explorer and Sponge Bob mixed in with reverse mortgage and subprime mortgage commercials…maybe an occasional Macy’s full page ad, the sale of the century including 40% off the original 80% off on selected mercandise behind the loading dock door.
No one is asking the young to get remedial training in “Bewolf” or WW2 came after WW1, but something has to change…..we have enough gardeners, ball cap and apron service employees.