Comments on: The Economics of Newspapers http://stephenslighthouse.com/2010/03/10/the-economics-of-newspapers/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-economics-of-newspapers Just another WordPress weblog Mon, 06 Sep 2010 10:29:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: peter kenneally http://stephenslighthouse.com/2010/03/10/the-economics-of-newspapers/comment-page-1/#comment-2677 peter kenneally Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:15:58 +0000 http://stephenslighthouse.com/?p=3541#comment-2677 I'm with Lisa: the rate of decline hasn't steepened at all since Google appeared: and in fact those online readers don't 'read' news , do they? They glance at a couple of headlines, and then, guess what? I bet they go home and read the paper, if they are the kind of person who would have read it anyway, pre-Google. which is why the rate of decline is so steady. Also don't forget the 1950s figure would have been inflated by all those readers who bought a morning and an evening paper: my dad always did, and he bought at least four on a Sunday ! I’m with Lisa: the rate of decline hasn’t steepened at all since Google appeared: and in fact those online readers don’t ‘read’ news , do they? They glance at a couple of headlines, and then, guess what? I bet they go home and read the paper, if they are the kind of person who would have read it anyway, pre-Google. which is why the rate of decline is so steady.
Also don’t forget the 1950s figure would have been inflated by all those readers who bought a morning and an evening paper: my dad always did, and he bought at least four on a Sunday !

]]> By: LisatheLibrarian http://stephenslighthouse.com/2010/03/10/the-economics-of-newspapers/comment-page-1/#comment-2676 LisatheLibrarian Wed, 10 Mar 2010 23:36:13 +0000 http://stephenslighthouse.com/?p=3541#comment-2676 re: "this graphic says a lot about the impact of Google" --this graphic says that Google has had no impact on a 50 year steady decline in newspaper circulation, amiright? re: “this graphic says a lot about the impact of Google”

–this graphic says that Google has had no impact on a 50 year steady decline in newspaper circulation, amiright?

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