Monday, April 28, 2008

New York Times circulation plummets. In economic hard times, who can afford to pay attention to a lyin' rag?

As we have relentlessly stated here at MediaWhoresUSA, the New York Times, despite its "LIBERAL" reputation, is actually a rag with a DISTINCTLY RIGHT-WING, MORE WARS, TAX CUTS FOR THE WEALTHY bias.
No further proof is needed to support our assessment than for over a dozen years FORMER NIXON SPEECHWRITER - and UNREPETENT Nixon CRIMES APOLOGIST William Safire was the Times' #1. sydnicated columnist.
#2. After Safire departed the Times, he came back to pen an article, "FALUJAH MUST BE PUNSHED!" for the murder and body-burning of Blackwater mercenaries (oops! "security contractors") who had wandered into Fallujah without a decent respect for that hotbed of Sunni pro-Saddam resentment, or a sufficient US military escort.
Sure enough, Fallujah was POUNDED by US military might - if not erased off the map LIDICE style (all members exterminated or shipped off to death camps by Nazi SS units, the town levelled and erased off the map in retaliation for the assassination of SS General Reinhard Heydrich ) then certainly GUERNICA style, the city that inspired Pablo Picasso's famous mural after the Nazi air force bombed the Republican city resisting General Franco's forces during the Spanish civil war that was a prelude to the bombed-out cities of WWII.
WILLIAM SAFIRE, from the pages of THE NEW YORK TIMES, DEMANDED that US firepower be used on Fallujah to "root out terrorists" .. in the same exact way that the WARSAW GHETTO was "cleansed" of partisans and resistance during WWII - and people still have the impression that the Times is a "liberal" newspaper!

So, we here at MediaWhoresUSA are happy to report that the Times CIRCULATION is GOING DOWN.

ALL they have to do to REVERSE THAT COURSE, to REGAIN THEIR LOST READERS, is for the Times to START REPORTING HONESTLY -
#1. On Dick Cheney's vast CORRUPTION - his HALLIBURTON STOCK-OPTIONS portfolio, his vast corruption in crony, no-bid contracts, his "Secret Energy Task Force" of 2001 (which, duh, was dedicated to making America DEPENDENT ON OIL, thereby leading directly to America's TRILLION-DOLLAR DEFICITS;
#2. in Bush's MALEVOLENT ARROGANCE and incompetence re the FEMA DISGRACE when the FEDERAL LEVEES FAILED, flooding New Orleans...
#3. or here's a dynamite headline grabber the CORRUPT TIMES _REFUSES_ to investigate, the CORRUPTION and STOLEN ELECTIONS inherent in the corporatized, privatized, NO oversight voting machines. (By comparison, EVERY LINE of computer code for Law Vegas casino slot-machines are rigorously inspected by state inspectors, because it is SO EASY TO RIG THEM, to insert a few lines of code to siphon off a portion of the machine's take)

THESE are just THREE BLOCKBUSTER circulation-boosting Stories the CORRUPT, NEO-CON, WAR-MONGERING NEW YORK SLIMES under owner/publisher Aruthur Sulzberger, and his LYING, CORRUPT EDITORS, REFUSE to investigate!

THE STUPID, LYING, CORRUPT, THIEVING, ELECTION-STEALING BASTARDS at the New York Times would PREFER to talk about.... The Reverend Wright's statements, on endless loop, even though Rev. Wright (and millions of other African-Americans) RECALL THE ERA OF SEGREGATION, where they could indeed have been beaten, murdered, or arrested for trying to assert their 15th Amendment Rights!

They see the DEVASTATION and SMOKE from the destroyed 9-11 towers... and side with the Bush-Cheney White House "ALL that devastation IN OUR OWN CITY.... is a PERFECT EXCUSE to DEFRAUD the American public out of MORE MILLIONS OF DOLLARS, with the pathetic, farcical, 9-11 Commission white-wash! (The Commissioners have practically cried that, despite their commission powers, they weren't informed of CIA Director Tenet's July 2001 visit TO THE WHITE HOUSE, SPECIFICALLY TO inform the National Security Advisor and "other White House senior officials" that Al Qaeda was in ADVANCED STAGES of PLANNING AN ATTACK ON or in America!!)
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C03E2DB1139F935A25756C0A9649C8B63

IF the New York WHORE Times did some HONEST reporting on those GENUINE issues, they would see a ZOOM IN SALES, but their publisher and editors PREFER TO BE RIGHT-WING LIARS, who see it as their duty to HIDE and COVER UP the crimes of the Bush-Cheney White House. Which is exactly why we must publish this "MEDIA WHORES USA" website - because ARTHUR SULBERGER and his crew of neo-con HACKS at the NEW YORK TIMES are PAID PROFESSIONAL LIARS, who put the Neo-Con, deficits-and-slavery agenda ahead of the economic strength and welfare of the America people.

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New York Times Circulation Plummets

SETH SUTEL
April 28, 2008
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/04/28/emnew-york-timesem-circul_n_98991.html


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NEW YORK — Circulation fell sharply at most top U.S. newspapers in the latest reporting period, an industry group said Monday, with the exception of the two largest national dailies, USA Today and The Wall Street Journal.

Those papers eked out gains of under 1 percent, while The New York Times, the No. 3 paper, fell 3.9 percent in the six months ending in March, according to the Audit Bureau of Circulations.

Newspaper circulation has been on a declining trend since the 1980s but the pace of declines has picked up in recent years as reader habits change and more people go online for news, information and entertainment.

National newspapers like USA Today and the Journal have tended to hold their ground better, as have smaller-market dailies where competition from other media like the Internet isn't usually as intense.

Gannett Co.'s USA Today remained the top-selling paper in the country with an average daily circulation of, 2,284,219, up 0.3 percent, while The Wall Street Journal rose 0.4 percent to 2,069,463. Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. bought the Journal's parent company Dow Jones & Co. last December.

The New York Times Co.'s flagship paper remained the third-largest with circulation of 1,077,256, down 3.9 percent from the same period a year earlier. That company also owns The Boston Globe and International Herald Tribune.

Metropolitan dailies have suffered the worst declines, a trend that continued in the most recent reporting period, with the Dallas Morning News reporting a 10.6 percent drop to 368,313.

The Dallas paper's corporate owner A.H. Belo Corp., newly spun out of broadcasting company Belo Corp., said as part of its earnings statement Monday that the company was culling back on less valuable circulation such as copies distributed through third parties.

Other metro dailies also posted steep declines, including The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, down 8.5 percent to 326,907, and the Star Tribune of Minneapolis-St. Paul, down 6.7 percent to 321,984.

Declines at other major papers were less severe, with the New York Daily News narrowly keeping the upper hand on its crosstown tabloid rival, Rupert Murdoch's New York Post. The Daily News posted a 2.1 percent decline to 703,137, while the Post fell 3.1 percent to 702,488.

Both Murdoch and Daily News owner Mortimer Zuckerman are going after Tribune Co.'s Newsday on neighboring Long Island. Newsday, meanwhile, posted a 4.7 percent decline in circulation to 379,613.

The twice-yearly report from the Audit Bureau includes figures from most major U.S. newspapers but not the entire industry. At the nearly 550 papers that reported comparable figures for both periords, average daily circulation fell 3.6 percent in the most recent period.

Several smaller to mid-size papers posted gains, including a Spanish-language daily in New York called El Diario La Prensa, up 7.6 percent to 53,856, while The Times in Munster, Ind., owned by Lee Enterprises Inc., rose 3 percent to 86.195.

The Chicago Sun-Times, reporting for the first time since being censured in 2004 for circulation misstatements, posted circulation of 312,274, but no prior-year numbers were available for comparison.

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