What percent of Americans like to read the Seattle Times?
And the circulation is about 214,000, less than 1% http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2003996002_circulation06.html Seattle’s two daily newspapers reported small gains in weekday circulation Monday, bucking industrywide trends and their own recent history. The Seattle Times’ average paid weekday circulation for the six-month period that ended Sept. 30 was 215,311, up 1.2 percent from the same period in 2006, according to the Audit Bureau of Circulations (ABC). The Seattle Post-Intelligencer’s weekday circulation grew 1.1 percent, to 127,584. The P-I last reported an increase in 1998, The Times in 2003. Average circulation for the combined Sunday newspaper continued its long slide, however, dropping 0.6 percent to 420,587. Elsewhere, 21 of the nation’s 25 largest newspapers reported weekday circulation declines. The biggest drops came at The Atlanta J
After Hillary Rodham Clinton bowed out, Barack Obama could finally say he was capturing the all-important Latino vote. In the first post-Hillary poll matching Obama against John McCain, 62 percent of NBC/Wall Street Journal’s relatively small sampling of Hispanic voters threw their support behind Obama. Anecdotal evidence suggests Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders are following suit, as ethnic newspapers run headlines noting Obama’s childhood in Hawaii and his ties to Indonesia. But an uncomfortable thing happened on the way to the nomination. We hyphenated Americans in Second Generation Nation don’t know how quite to talk about it in polite company (read: when white people are listening). It’s the ugly family secret we’d rather not acknowledge. While pundits in situation rooms pontificated about Asian Americans’ loyalty to the Clintons and Latinos’ familiarity with Hillary, we were having a different conversation in our living rooms. “My older brother said he wouldn’t vote for Oba
