As young adults leave newspaper's behind while too many newspapers continue to insult those older folks that still read their pages, you may not be surprised by the following stats that were release on November 7, 2005.

And it just keeps getting worse, as arrogant managing editors filled with themselves leave the values of the folks behind that put the dime down for the daily newspaper that pays their salaries.

The following is the average weekday circulation of America's twenty largest newspapers for the six-month period ended Sept. 30, 2005, as reported by the Audit Bureau of Circulations, percentage changes from the comparable year-ago period.

 

Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 362,426, down 8.73 percent

Arizona Republic, 411,043, down 0.54 percent

Boston Globe, 414,225, down 8.25 percent

Chicago Tribune, 586,122, down 2.47 percent

Detroit Free Press, 341,248, down 2.18 percent

Houston Chronicle, 521,419, down 6.01 percent

Los Angeles Times, 843,432, down 3.79 percent

New York Daily News, 688,584, down 3.70 percent

New York Post, 662,681, down 1.74 percent

New York Times, 1,126,190, up 0.46 percent

Oregonian, Portland, 333,515, down 1.24 percent

Philadelphia Inquirer, 357,679, down 3.16 percent

Plain Dealer, Cleveland, 339,055, down 4.46 percent

San Diego Union-Tribune, 314,279, down 6.24 percent

San Francisco Chronicle, 391,681, down 16.4 percent

Star-Ledger of Newark, N.J., 400,092, barely up 0.01 percent

Star Tribune of Minneapolis-St. Paul, 374,528, down 0.26 percent

Wall Street Journal, 2,083,660, down 1.10 percent

Washington Post, 678,779, down 4.09 percent

USA Today, 2,296,335, down 0.59 percent

 

Source: Drudge Report 11/07/05

 

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