November 05, 2007

ANOTHER GRIM MILESTONE:

According to an analysis of ABC figures, for 538 daily U.S. newspapers, circulation declined 2.5% to 40,689,617. For 609 papers that filed on Sunday, overall circulation dropped 3.5% to 46,771,486. The percentages are based on comparisons from the same period a year ago and represent the majority of the paper's reporting into ABC -- less than half in the country.

For The New York Times, daily circulation fell 4.51% to 1,037,828 and Sunday plunged 7.59% to 1,500,394. . . . At the Star Tribune, daily dropped 6.5% to 335,443, and Sunday was down 4.3% to 570,443.

I blame George W. Bush.

UPDATE: Mickey Kaus: "New York Times editorial page editor Andrew Rosenthal says that being top editor of the Times has made Bill Keller 'crazier.' ... He also describes publisher Pinch Sulzberger as more involved in editorials than I'd thought . . . . That explains a lot!"