80 degrees in December is absurd.

With all the media weeping and gnashing of teeth over the 2000th combat death in Iraq and the 1000th execution since capital punishment was reinstated in the US, another milestone was recently crossed that did not get as much coverage: Average weekday circulation at U.S. newspapers fell 2.6 percent.

Texas’ leading newspaper in terms of daily circulation, the Houston Chronicle, experienced a 6.01% decrease (from 555,291 to 521,419) in daily readership for a 6 month period ending Sept. 30, 2005 compared to the comparable period a year ago. Can we expect an in-depth expose’ on the 33872 lost readers?