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Top U.S. Newspapers Losing Readers

November 6th, 2007 · Comments Off

From Editor and Publisher:
For the six-month period ending Sept. 30. Preliminary figures as filed with the Audit Bureau of Circulations.

Newspaper
Monday through Friday% change
Sunday% change

USA TODAY
+1.04
N/A

WALL STREET JOURNAL
-1.53
N/A

NEW YORK TIMES
-4.51
-7.59

LOS ANGELES TIMES
+0.50
-5.11

NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
-1.73
-6.81

NEW YORK POST
-5.24
-5.10

WASHINGTON POST
-3.23
-3.89

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
-2.90
-2.14

HOUSTON CHRONICLE
-0.13
+0.09

NEWSDAY
-5.62
-4.33

ARIZONA REPUBLIC
-3.75
-4.64

DALLAS MORNING NEWS
-7.68
-7.64

SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE
-2.29
-0.66

BOSTON GLOBE
-6.66
-6.54

STAR-LEDGER OF NEWARK
-2.78
-5.57

PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER
+2.31
-2.92

STAR TRIBUNE OF MINNEAPOLIS
-6.53
-4.34

CLEVELAND PLAIN DEALER
-0.81
-0.15

DETROIT FREE [...]

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Tags: Internet · Media · The Left · The US

A Difference Between Conservative And Liberal

November 6th, 2007 · Comments Off

Over at the DailyKoz (I don’t link there) someone by the name of Yacka Jah Yacka recently wrote a post entitled “A Simple Way to End the War on Terror”. He proposes that if everyone in the US would simply convert to Islam then terrorism would stop:

How many of us are really just religious [...]

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Tags: Atheist · Buddhism · Christianity · Faith · Hindu · Judaism · Muslim/Islam