THEY LIE, THEY GET CAUGHT, THEY LIE AGAIN. THEN THEIR CUSTOMERS SPEAK

It's schadenfreude time, not that this changes one thing at the LA Times....

LOS ANGELES, May 2 /PRNewswire/ -- For the six months ended March 31, 2005, the Los Angeles Times reported Monday-Saturday average daily circulation of 907,997, a decline of 6.5 percent compared with the prior year, and Sunday circulation of 1,253,849, a decline of 7.9 percent from the prior year, according to figures filed with the Audit Bureau of Circulations, subject to audit.

Now under the "rules" of capitalism the LA Times editorial leadership would be fired. Big city newspapers long ago ceased to be a part of capitalism. Most went bust for not lying enough, union insanity, and the first warning that times they were a'changin'. LA is a one newspaper town. The Times is the ONLY print voice here. That's enough for the Left leaning lying Times.

This is how these commie failures refuse to read the numbers: A promotion for Los Angeles Times executive vice president and general manager, who will become president, publisher and CEO on June 1. A true spin on the numbers so that it looks like the circulation reduction is a part of a grand design...

The Los Angeles Times continues to deliver the largest audience in Southern California with an average daily readership of 2.4 million and 3.5 million on Sunday, according to Scarborough 2004 Los Angeles Report. To strengthen this market position, we're investing...blah blah blah

They also snort in the same press release that they have won 37 Pulitizers, which only proves how low the Pulitizer Prize has become.

Circulation has dropped in all the big dailies but the left wing morons decide to boost circulation by giving copies away..

As circulation has slipped, newspapers are focusing more on new sources of revenue, such as online editions of their print publications or other Internet ventures. The Washington Post Co. (WPO.N: Quote, Profile, Research) , Tribune and others have launched free daily papers aimed at commuters and younger readers who do not generally read traditional papers.

The Chicago Tribune, not to be outdone by a bunch of west coast faggots, are spinning their equally disastrous numbers---

Circulation is important and we're investing to improve our results," said David Hiller, president and publisher of Chicago Tribune Company. But ultimately readership and audience are what matter most and we maintained our market leading audience of Chicago Tribune readers.

They are all clueless and reside in the same Ivy League/Columbia School of Journalism cocoon, thinking they know, believing to the depths of their souls that lying in news reporting is what their audiences demand, and watching happily as the two hi-jacked planes head toward their two hundred storey plastic universe. Here's a doozy

Compared to the same period a year ago, The Sun in Baltimore dropped a staggering 11.5% in daily circulation and 8.4% in Sunday circulation. On Friday alone, the paper lost roughly 14% of its circulation.

The spin in Baltimore? Well it goes something like this: The Sun also recently began dropping subscriptions of people who consistently didn't pay their bills. Which translated means that we've been giving out phony data but now we stopped. Sample conversation would go something like this:
Customer: stop delivering my paper.
Newpaper rep: No.
Customer: I'm not paying.
Newspaper rep: Who is?