What is the most popular U.S newpaper?

Question

What is the most popular U.S newpaper?

Answer 1

USA Today then The Wall Street Journal

Answer 2

L.A TIMES

NEW YORK TIMES

THE CHRONICLE

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Answer 3

I would say New York Times.

Answer 4

USA Today.

Answer 5

I think The Times.

Answer 6

excuse me ?  it definately isn't the new york times or the la times.  i'm supprised those two are still in print.  very over the top far left out there news papers there is.  they don't print the truth.  listlen to the factor sometime on fox, you'll understand what i'm talking about .

Answer 7

j2throm is right.

IF you follow his link you will see this, it's the name of the paper, the city it is published in, and how many copies it sells on a daily basis.

1 USA Today McLean Virginia 2,524,965 Gannett Company

2 Wall Street Journal New York New York 2,068,439 News Corporation

3 New York Times, The New York New York 1,627,062 New York Times Company

4 Los Angeles Times Los Angeles California 1,173,096 Tribune Company

Now most hotels put a copy of USA Today on the floor outside your room every morning...so that might boost their numbers.

Think about this though...there are 301,139,947 Americans(July 2007 est.)...selling even 3,000,000 papers, (which none of them are able to do) only reaches 1/100 of the country.

What is interesting (and will make you think) is if you cross index those numbers with other media. As of 2006, Arbitron ratings indicated that The Rush Limbaugh Show had a minimum weekly audience of 13.5 million listeners, making it the largest radio talk show audience in the United States.

That means Rush Limbaugh reaches about 6 people for every one who reads the New York Times.

Back on May 8th "ABC's World News" averaged 8.1 million viewers last week (5.7 rating, 12 share). (That's 4 New York Times). NBC's "Nightly News" had 7.5 million viewers, its fourth- lowest figure since at least 1987 (5.3, 12), and CBS had a 4.3 rating and 9 share. The year 1987 is a benchmark because that's when Nielsen began using its "people meter" technology. http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=...

The Demographics are interesting too....

http://newsbusters.org/node/6674

Which may explain this stock chart for the NYT

http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtm...

The whole point here is, "popular" and "newspaper" seem to be a contradiction in terms.

Answer 8

USA Today. Which is why Americans are so uninformed. The Wall Street Journal is c**p too.