{"id":1303,"date":"2007-05-15T10:45:04","date_gmt":"2007-05-15T14:45:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mathewingram.com\/work\/2007\/05\/15\/pay-no-attention-to-the-howling-winds\/"},"modified":"2007-05-15T10:45:04","modified_gmt":"2007-05-15T14:45:04","slug":"pay-no-attention-to-the-howling-winds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2007\/05\/15\/pay-no-attention-to-the-howling-winds\/","title":{"rendered":"Pay no attention to the howling winds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s just a mild breeze, says Gavin O&#8217;Reilly of the World Newspaper Association:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Don&#8217;t believe all you&#8217;re being told about the death of the press: more people all over the world are reading newspapers. What&#8217;s more, they&#8217;re still a powerful medium for advertising,&#8221; he says <a href=\"http:\/\/news.independent.co.uk\/media\/article2537371.ece\">in a piece<\/a> for The Independent. In other words, just ignore the dramatic declines in readership and the stories of newspapers laying off thousands of people or putting themselves up for sale. Just a flesh wound. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The chorus of disapproval for newspapers has become a global trend. These days it is nearly impossible to find a media analyst who actually reads a newspaper or who can see anything other than doom and gloom for the industry.<\/p>\n<p>I can present a different perspective. Let&#8217;s start with circulations, which continue to grow &#8211; and not just in India and China. Paid circulation grew globally by 1.9 per cent in 2006, with sales of 510.4 million copies a day.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Wow &#8212; 1.9 per cent growth. Woo-hoo! Time to get out the party hats.<\/p>\n<div class=\"syndication-links\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s just a mild breeze, says Gavin O&#8217;Reilly of the World Newspaper Association: &#8220;Don&#8217;t believe all you&#8217;re being told about the death of the press: more people all over the world are reading newspapers. What&#8217;s more, they&#8217;re still a powerful medium for advertising,&#8221; he says in a piece for The Independent. In other words, just &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2007\/05\/15\/pay-no-attention-to-the-howling-winds\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Pay no attention to the howling winds&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crsspst_to_mathewingramblogwordpresscom":false,"mf2_syndication":[],"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1303\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}