Newspaper circulation has been plummeting for the last 50 years. Media executives have tried to reverse the trend by cutting their newsrooms, shrinking their page counts and giving away their content for free online. As the circulation of Charlie Hebdo shot from 60,000 to 5,000,000 after the massacre of their staff, there may be a way forward after all.
Newspapers Saved by Slaughter
Ted Rall
Ted Rall is a syndicated political cartoonist for Andrews McMeel Syndication and WhoWhatWhy.org and Counterpoint. He is a contributor to Centerclip and co-host of "The Final Countdown" talk show on Radio Sputnik. He is a graphic novelist and author of many books of art and prose, and an occasional war correspondent. He is, recently, the author of the graphic novel "2024: Revisited."
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Think of it, over at Langley, they must also be jumping a wack. Tasteless “comedy” that ain’t even funny is perpetually easy to demonize. I’m sure the Spooks have a whole budget that targets true-believing scum artists with financing just so that — later — they can then false-flag them into a sort of glorious ignonimity.
This goes way beyond Propaganda 101.
DanD
… ignominy … .
D
Does this mean that there is a (sic) silver lining around every cloud?
Don’t know, Ted, if this is, indeed, a universal law – I don’t recall that the US bombing of Serbian Television during the (undeclared) war on that country did, indeed, increased it penetration of the market, nor that the bombing of Chinese journalists residing at that country’s Belgrad embassy during the same war increased the circulation of the journals for which they worked. But even if this particular blip in the data can’t be reproduced, I’m glad to see that Charlie Hebdo has succeeded in selling all the issues it printed up – hope my daughter in Paris managed to grab one for me !…
Henri