Newspaper circulation is dropping, in some cases precipitously. Circulation figures for the last six months at the nation's top twenty newspapers can be found here along with the percentage they have grown or declined.
Reasons for the overall decline are no doubt numerous and varied, but surely two of them are the rise of alternative media and the growing feeling among readership that many papers can't be trusted to fairly report and comment upon the news.
There's an irony in this. For years liberal newsrooms have railed against corporate America and have championed diversity in whatever way it manifests itself. Now their own corporate profits appear to be tanking, and they're being undone, in part at least, by the increasing diversity of news sources available to consumers.
I wonder if they're savoring this irony at the L.A. Times.