Wall Street Journal Grows, Other Papers Wither

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According to Media Life Magazine:

Top 25 Daily Newspapers – Mon.-Fri. As of Sept. 30, 2010
Newspaper	2010 Circ (Daily)	2009 Circ (Daily)	% change
WALL STREET JOURNAL	2,061,142	2,024,269	1.82%
USA TODAY	1,830,594	1,900,116	-3.66%
NEW YORK TIMES	876,638	927,851	-5.52%
LOS ANGELES TIMES	600,449	657,467	-8.67%
WASHINGTON POST	545,345	582,844	-6.43%
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS	512,520	544,167	-5.82%
NEW YORK POST	501,501	508,042	-1.29%
SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS	477,592	-	N/A
CHICAGO TRIBUNE	441,508	465,892	-5.23%
HOUSTON CHRONICLE	343,952	384,437	-10.53%
PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER	342,361	361,481	-5.29%
NEWSDAY	314,848	357,124	-11.84%
DENVER POST	309,863	340,949	-9.12%
ARIZONA REPUBLIC	308,973	316,873	-2.49%
MINNEAPOLIS STAR TRIBUNE	297,478	304,544	-2.32%
DALLAS MORNING NEWS	264,459	263,810	0.25%
CLEVELAND PLAIN DEALER	252,608	271,182	-6.85%
SEATTLE TIMES	251,697	263,588	-4.51%
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES	250,747	275,641	-9.03%
DETROIT FREE PRESS (e)	245,326	269,729	-9.05%
ST. PETERSBURG TIMES	239,684	240,146	-0.19%
OREGONIAN	239,071	249,164	-4.05%
SAN DIEGO UNION-TRIBUNE	224,761	242,693	-7.39%
SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE	223,549	251,782	-11.21%
NEWARK STAR-LEDGER	223,037	246,006	-9.34%
Source: Audit Bureau of Circulations

Top 25 Daily Newspapers – Sunday As of Sept. 30, 2010
Newspaper	2010 Circ (Sunday)	2009 Circ (Sunday)	% change
NEW YORK TIMES	1,352,358	1,400,302	-3.42%
LOS ANGELES TIMES	901,119	983,702	-8.40%
CHICAGO TRIBUNE	768,073	803,220	-4.38%
WASHINGTON POST	764,666	822,207	-7.00%
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS	568,266	603,671	-5.86%
SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS	528,536	-	N/A
HOUSTON CHRONICLE (T)	515,236	547,409	-5.88%
MINNEAPOLIS STAR TRIBUNE	504,616	477,564	5.66%
DETROIT FREE PRESS (T) (e)	494,013	560,188	-11.81%
PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER	477,586	499,138	-4.32%
DENVER POST	472,664	495,485	-4.61%
ARIZONA REPUBLIC	457,059	458,992	-0.42%
ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION	384,110	405,551	-5.29%
ST. PETERSBURG TIMES	377,235	370,049	1.94%
NEWSDAY	375,874	413,830	-9.17%
DALLAS MORNING NEWS (T)	373,815	390,523	-4.28%
BOSTON GLOBE	368,303	418,527	-12.00%
ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH	365,589	401,425	-8.93%
CLEVELAND PLAIN DEALER (T)	348,324	390,637	-10.83%
NEWARK STAR-LEDGER	346,436	371,061	-6.64%
SEATTLE TIMES	341,265	359,672	-5.12%
NEW YORK POST	339,115	343,361	-1.24%
MILWAUKEE JOURNAL SENTINEL	331,171	334,241	-0.92%
BALTIMORE SUN	324,018	322,492	0.47%
OREGONIAN	292,800	303,414	-3.50%
Source: Audit Bureau of Circulations

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Random Sample of NY Times Comments Reveals How Out of Touch Readers are With America

This is just too freakin hilarious...

1.
tracy french
usa
October 13th, 2010
8:44 pm
O'Donnell got one thing right when she said “what I believe is irrelevant.”
Recommend Recommended by 228 Readers
2.
DaveW
Tempe, AZ
October 13th, 2010
9:13 pm
The media loves to equivocate their defintions of evolution. Evolution is a scientific fact, life indeed changes over time. Various theories (including Darwin's) attempt to explain how and to what extent. The idea that there is a scientific theory of evolution that explains the transitions from goo to you in an entirely naturalistic fashion, is indeed, largely a myth. No such theory exists.
Recommend Recommended by 25 Readers
3.
David Underwood
Citrus heights, CA
October 13th, 2010
9:13 pm
She along with most TPers, and far right conservatives, are just plain ignorant about Marxism. It is not an economic theory but a social theory. That economic theories of Socialism grew from it does not make it an economic theory. Marx is credited with being one of the first sociologists. His observations of society and how it is divided, are not necessarily correct, but they do provide some reasons to see why he arrived at his conclusions. The primary being he conflict between rich and poor, and it does explain why countries like those in Central America have socialistic governments.
However we should keep in mind, that republicans calling people socialist is just plain hypocrisy. Their farm support giveaways, price supports, special tax breaks for the wealthy are just a s socialistic as anything the democrats have done. It is just two sides of the same coin. The republican platform is closer to Fascism, Those name callers who are impugning the integrity of President Obama, do not seem to know that Socialism is government ownership of the means of productions, Fascism is the private ownership of the means of production, and the government runs them.
But republicans can not let the facts confuse them.
Recommend Recommended by 66 Readers
4.
silius
Newton, MA
October 13th, 2010
9:13 pm
instead of reporting what each candidate "charged," the times should do its journalistic duty and investigate which accusations are actually true. it would presumably be fairly easy to find out whether o'donnell was actually confusing coons with his predecessor.
Recommend Recommended by 32 Readers
5.
kfl
vt
October 13th, 2010
9:13 pm
I never thought I would say this, but I'm beginning to like O'Donnell. She isn't as well educated as I would prefer, but neither are most of our national elected politicians. She's got a bigger set than Coons, and her's seem to be made of brass. She just might beat the longshot odds and win this election
Recommend Recommended by 30 Readers
6.
allen2saint
NY
October 13th, 2010
9:13 pm
We NY'ers laugh at her and make jokes, but people like her are going to win all over this country and then we will really be in trouble. If I see one more lilly livered democrat smile and act all evasive while they are dressed down by these maniacs in one of these debates, I'm going to scream. People need to see us fight for what we believe!
Recommend Recommended by 44 Readers
7.
Ceadan
New Jersey
October 13th, 2010
9:13 pm
How tragic for our nation that the corporate media marginalizes and all but silences the voices of reason while the idiotic pronouncements of O'Donnelll, Paladino, Beck and their ilk command immediate and universal coverage. We're watching the collapse of our once treasured republic before our eyes. God blessed America and what have we let it come to?
Recommend Recommended by 63 Readers
8.
VJR
Glenville NY
October 13th, 2010
9:13 pm
I wish she'd just go away - along with the tired failed ideologies of the rest of her ilk that, after 30 years, got us in the mess we are in.
Recommend Recommended by 53 Readers
9.
jay scott
dallas, texas
October 13th, 2010
9:13 pm
Only George Bush was less prepared for public office than Christine O'Donnell is, and this, aside from her dangerous ignorance, makes her equally as mesmerizing and funny to watch.
If only this irony wasn't the tragic emblem of how low the Republicans have sunk.
Only Millionaires and Suckers are Republicans now. Suckers like O'Donnell fronting for Millionaires who could care less about the suckers that see O'Donnell as their Savior.
Her silliness is grim.
Recommend Recommended by 60 Readers
10.
NA
New York
October 13th, 2010
9:13 pm
I'm sorry, but they didn't hurl personal attacks at "each other." Chris Coons
consistently passed on opportunities to go after her personally--on the question of her finances, for example.
And when was it that "we" fought the Soviets in Afghanistan, as Ms. O'Donnell stated? I must have missed that.
Recommend Recommended by 50 Readers
11.
pierce.moffett
portland, or
October 13th, 2010
9:13 pm
Amazing the the republican party has found someone even less qualified for office than Sarah Palin.
I grew up in a republican household, but my parents were of the old fashioned "education is good" branch of the republican party. Does that even exist any more? All of the republican candidates we see today seem to be such unbelievable ignoramuses.
Recommend Recommended by 72 Readers
12.
Steven Kale--Oregon
Eugene, Oregon
October 13th, 2010
9:13 pm
Well, O'Donnell may not be a witch, but it rhymes with witch.
Recommend Recommended by 16 Readers
13.
Nannette brill
Palos Verdes, CA
October 13th, 2010
9:13 pm
These tea party people like O'Donnell are full of defiant ignorance and nothing more
Recommend Recommended by 40 Readers
14.
mattinjersey
MA
October 13th, 2010
9:13 pm
Kind of an odd title about how they hurled insults at each other. If you actually watched the debate, O'Donnell took every opportunity to lay false attacks on him. But Coons didn't really respond by going after her. He kind of played it cool.
Recommend Recommended by 53 Readers
15.
Tom
Vancouver Island, BC
October 13th, 2010
9:18 pm
No, Christine, you're not a witch...just a fool.
Recommend Recommended by 18 Readers
16.
sam badger
palo alto, ca
October 13th, 2010
9:18 pm
How hypocritical, she runs around accusing Coons of being a "Marxist", then she says that it doesn't matter what "she believes". If she is able to question Coon's philosophical point of view, why can he not do the same to hers? She has some zany fundamentalist beliefs that are worrying and open to question.
Recommend Recommended by 24 Readers
17.
Lisa P
Madison, WI
October 13th, 2010
9:18 pm
"I am a clean-shaven capitalist" certainly beats "I am not a witch" as a campaign slogan.
Recommend Recommended by 23 Readers
18.
urania7
Atlanta
October 13th, 2010
9:18 pm
Ok. She's not a witch, just a manipulative, lying, ignorant, thieving, corrupt, disingenuous, phoney.
Recommend Recommended by 29 Readers
19.
betty sher
Pittsboro, N.C.
October 13th, 2010
9:18 pm
Like Barney Franks remarks at a Town Hall Meeting, Mr. Coons should have debated the wooden table at which they were seated. O'Donnell is probably the biggest joke of the year who sports a toothy, cunning smile. Question: Did she arrive on her broomstick?
Recommend Recommended by 13 Readers
20.
Matt
New York, NY
October 13th, 2010
9:18 pm
She is simply too stupid to be Senator. Perhaps she should stick to her witchcraft.
Recommend Recommended by 18 Readers
21.
Max
Washington, DC
October 13th, 2010
9:18 pm
Ms. O'Donnell, I wouldn't ask you for the time of day. I'm not sure you even know how to read a watch.
Recommend Recommended by 14 Readers
22.
rmarc
albany ny
October 13th, 2010
9:18 pm
This woman is part of a Monty Python spoof, right?
Recommend Recommended by 23 Readers
23.
JackCB
NJ
October 13th, 2010
9:18 pm
Astute listeners can't help but realize that O'Donnell's “what I believe is irrelevant” applies to the rest her assertions. What's in that tea she's drinking?
Recommend Recommended by 23 Readers
24.
SheIsNOTme
Delaware
October 13th, 2010
9:18 pm
You betcha' she did! Name calling seems to be an effective means for Tea Baggers. They misrepresent themselves (patriots) and mischaracfterize others. They don't defend the constitution so much as revise it so that's it's even further away from the original document that the founding fathers envisioned. This country is in bad shape because we value mediocrity more than logic and reason.
Is she a witch? You betcha! Wink Wink!
Recommend Recommended by 19 Readers
25.
steveboyington
Chester, NH
October 13th, 2010
9:18 pm
She is a dim bulb, eh? People of Delaware can vote for her if they wish. It would raise the profile of the state a bit. "Delaware? Oh yeah. They voted for that O'Donnell girl. She just ain't right."
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Republicans carry substantial advantages as they move into the final month of the fall campaign, but the resilience of vulnerable Democrats is complicating Republican efforts to lock down enough seats to capture the House and take control of the unsettled electoral battleground.
By now, Republicans had hoped to put away a first layer of Democrats and set their sights on a second tier of incumbents. But the fight for control of Congress is more fluid than it seemed at Labor Day, with Democrats mounting strong resistance in some parts of the country as they try to hold off a potential Republican wave in November.

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