This is a factual summary of newspaper circulation trends. It is an informative report that provides some interpretation from some of the newspapers affected in negative or positive ways.

The gradual decline of paid print journalism circulation should come as no surprise to anyone who has been following the news for the past several years. True, the no-cost availability of many newspapers on the Interent has had an impact. But a more far reaching and profound reason is that readers (and following them, the advertisers) can see plainly, upon consulting the growing number of websites that give us so much more authentic and revealing news, that our corporate print media have been SELECTIVE in reporting news, publishing unsubstantiated accounts, false facts, and even untrue rumors as though these were (are) the news "that's fit to ptint" or often ignore real news items entirely. Unfortunately, the most (formerly) ... More »