Times: We Didn't Mean To Imply Your Newspaper Was Dying

Philadelphians still (hopefully) read their newspapers. However, the picture above was used in the Times for their article “Why Big Newspapers Applaud Some Declines in circulation“. Then the following correction showed up in this morning’s Times:

An article in Business Day yesterday reported on a growing trend among large newspapers to accept some circulation declines because of the high expense of attracting and keeping new subscribers. The article was illustrated with a photograph of a delivery truck for The Philadelphia Inquirer and The Philadelphia Daily News and a caption that said “Big American newspapers sell about 10 percent fewer copies today than they did in 2000.”

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