RSSNewspaper Circulation Dropping; Who Could Have Seen That Coming?
Say it isn’t so, the Boston Globe reporting a drop in circulation and the New York Times barely realizing an increase. Go figure? In all honesty who actually buys print newspapers anymore? The upcoming Fas-Fax report will read a grim tale for the news print.
During an earnings call with analysts Thursday morning, executives at The New York Times Co. said that the Globe’s daily circ declined by 17,000 copies, or 3.7%, and Sunday decreased by 15,000 copies, or 2.1%.
The New York Times reported daily circ increased by 2,500 copies, or .2%. Sunday circ grew 3,500 copies, also .2%. The Times’ daily circulation dropped 2% within New York, though national circulation is up 2%. Sunday circ sank 5% in the New York area while it increased roughly 5% nationally.
What is most interesting are the reasons that Print executives give for the drop in circulation. Its not so much what they say, its what they don’t.
Executives attributed the circulation decreases in Boston and in the New York area to weather problems during Q1, changing demographics — an influx of immigrants — and the shunning of traditional papers by a younger generation.
Hmm … “the shunning of traditional papers” by younger individuals. Is that code for INTERNET access to the news media? Is it possible that most people and not just young these days go on-line for their news. More to the point, young people go to certain sites and blogs to get their news. Not one mention of the blogosphere as a possible reason for a loss of circulation. One thing is for certain, it will only get worse in the years to come for printed newspaper circulation.
The Airline Industry Could Learn a lot From SouthWest
Southwest has been doing it right for some time now. Maybe the other airlines may want to steal some of their talent. Southwest just announced their first quarter numbers and they are great.
first-quarter earnings nearly tripled, thanks to successful fuel hedging and higher traffic in March.
Quarterly income rose to $76 million, or 9 cents a share, from $26 million, or 3 cents a share, last year. Revenue climbed 12 percent to $1.66 billion from $1.48 billion.
There numbers are looking incredible as compared to the rest of the industry. And a nice comparable chart. The have defied the industry trend in losing money.
They also are the “not so official” airline of BlogNashville.
Unofficial Airlines of BlogNashville
We don’t have an official airline but if we did it would be SouthWest Airlines. One of the factors that went into selecting Nashville as a host city is that there are cheap flights into Music City from a number of locations around the country.
Oil For Food Scandal; Texas Oil Man David Chalmers Indicted
According to Fox News, David Chalmers, head of Texas based BayOil and two other individuals have been indicted.
U.S. Attorney David N. Kelley scheduled a 10:30 a.m. EDT news conference Thursday with an FBI official to announce the unsealing of the indictment, which his office said also named two companies operated by the formally unidentified Texan.
The kickbacks involved funds otherwise intended for humanitarian relief, Kelley with conspiracy to act in the United States as an unregistered government agent for the Iraqi government’s effort to create the oil-for-food program, the statement said.
Maybe now that an American and from Texas for that matter has been indicted the rest of the MSM and world media can put pressure on the UN and Kofi Annan to come clean. This is a scandal of momentous proportion that the UN has dragged its feet on this issue. The Oil For Food Scandal among many others should have forces Kofi Annan to resign.
The United States and other U.N. member states have refused to fully cooperate with investigators looking into corruption in the oil-for-food program in Iraq, blocking access to information about politically sensitive actions of Security Council nations.
Its about time we get to the bottom of this entire matter and hold everyone’s feet to the fire that was involved. The UN looked the other way and purposely so as individuals gained kick backs and Saddam Hussein became even richer at the expense of the Iraqi people. How is it that a UN program designed to aid the Iraqi people could have been so mismanaged and full of graft that the Oil For Food ended up doing just the opposite from what it was intended? It was either incompetence, corruption or both. There are no clean hands in this and heads should roll starting from the top down.
UPDATE: AP
If convicted of the charges, Chalmers, Irving and Dionissiev each could face a maximum of 62 years in prison and a maximum fine of $1 million. The defendants could also be forced to make restitution.
UPDATE 2: From CNN, in a perfect call from the above post. Read through the CNN account of today’s indictment and notice you will not find one reference to the “UN Oil For Food Scandal” by name except,
NEW YORK (CNN) — For the first time, an American businessman and company have been indicted in a federal investigation of the United Nations’ Iraq oil-for-food program, law enforcement sources said Thursday.
Also there is not one reference to Kofi Annan’s name. Nice critical, cutting edge journalism CNN.
In New Zealand, This Will be the “Butt” of Many Jokes
From the files of you have got to be kidding, comes a story of a butt and a bid at $5400 US$’s. Or at least it better be.
Hey guys, I have a pack of original Camel “no filters”, what are you going to bid for that?
The Power of Freedom of Speech, HATE LOSES
Its looks like HATE loses.
CafePress has removed items that have recently come under fire for the content that they contained. The idea that “Tom Delay, Please commit suicide” or “Kill Bush” was some how not overly offensive and violated some contract terms was puzzling.
In a statement today, CafePress has removed the items.
The “Kill Bush” products have been removed from CafePress.com. They were created by individuals across the globe, as are the more than 8 million products available on CafePress.com, a diverse network of more than one million shops.
Hate related materials are in violation of our terms of service and are prohibited from being sold through CafePress.com. CafePress.com is an automated service, and as such, products are reviewed on an ongoing basis to ensure that merchandise that is in violation of our terms of service is removed from our site.
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You can make a difference. I am all for the free expression of ideas and the right to market one’s product. However, marketing hate to incite others to possibly commit acts by creating an overly hostile and lunatic atmosphere should never be allowed. Debate the issues, disagree with the issues, express ones views in an intelligent manner. However, to wish harm upon someone because of their point of view is wrong.
We will follow up in the future with CafePress to make sure that measures are put in place to monitor such hate. Kudos to all who have expressed their outrage in this matter and have righted a wrong.
Kudos, Michelle Malkin
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