Thought this was sort of interesting: newspaper circulation numbers. I can't believe the Daily News is bigger than the Post.
i think it always has been - the daily news was an am paper and post was the afternoon rag -
Yeah, the Post almost went out of business a few years back. The News has been much bigger as long as I can remember; they're the working-class alternative to the Times. The Post is showing double-digit increases while most papers are lucky to show any growth. They've done it much the same way as Fox News (both owned by Murdoch,) appealing to our worst appetites, both politically and socially. Still, the Post is entertaining, while the predictably left-mainstream News is unbearably dull. The Post was still bleeding money when it was strictly a reactionary organ, but now it's picking up advertising, and has positioned itself as an "ironic" secondary read; a guilty pleasure after the Times, rather than an alternative, and it's within striking distance of the News.
I just thought sports fans bought the Post. I guess sports aren't as important as I thought. Or maybe it's espn's fault.
Speaking of that Fox guy, watch his acquistion of a major satellite teevee service provider sail right through the US gov.
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- jim 5-06-2003 10:45 pm
i think it always has been - the daily news was an am paper and post was the afternoon rag -
- bill 5-06-2003 10:47 pm [add a comment]
Yeah, the Post almost went out of business a few years back. The News has been much bigger as long as I can remember; they're the working-class alternative to the Times. The Post is showing double-digit increases while most papers are lucky to show any growth. They've done it much the same way as Fox News (both owned by Murdoch,) appealing to our worst appetites, both politically and socially. Still, the Post is entertaining, while the predictably left-mainstream News is unbearably dull. The Post was still bleeding money when it was strictly a reactionary organ, but now it's picking up advertising, and has positioned itself as an "ironic" secondary read; a guilty pleasure after the Times, rather than an alternative, and it's within striking distance of the News.
- alex 5-07-2003 12:43 am [add a comment]
I just thought sports fans bought the Post. I guess sports aren't as important as I thought. Or maybe it's espn's fault.
- jim 5-07-2003 2:36 am [add a comment]
Speaking of that Fox guy, watch his acquistion of a major satellite teevee service provider sail right through the US gov.
- anonymous (guest) 5-10-2003 9:20 am [add a comment]