Michael Kinsley: The Press Is in Decline

Michael Kinsley, the editorial and opinion editor of the Los Angeles Times has this attempt at a humor piece in today’s Washington Post:

In this great country, there are newspaper editorial pages of every political stripe, from nearly insane far-left rantings to the Wall Street Journal. But when the United States faces a danger to its most important institutions and values, Americans can count on the newspaper industry to put aside petty differences and speak with one voice.

Now is such a moment. The enemy is invisible, indeed inexplicable, but could be fatal to all we hold dear. In short: Some evil force is causing people to stop reading newspapers! Newspaper circulation figures, which had been drifting decorously downward for years, have started to plummet. At the current rate of decline, the last newspaper subscriber will hang up on a renewal phone call that interrupts dinner on Oct. 17, 2016. And then it will be over.

I wonder if John Carrol, the Editor of the Los Angeles Times, and his Tribune Company bosses are quite so accepting of the massive circulation loses of their California flagship newspaper. The Wall Street Journal has the circulation figures here.

Kinsley continues here.

The Los Angeles Times link for the same piece is here.

Did it ever cross his mind that it is his ideological slant of the Los Angeles Times that is causing the circulation decine?

Nahhhh! He is clueless and lives in Seattle.