NOT FADE AWAY

The newspaper industry continues to wither. Editor & Publisher has the latest circulation figures from the nation's 25-biggest dailies:

USA Today: 2,269509, (1.3%)
The Wall Street Journal: 2,043235, (1.9%)
The New York Times: 1,086,798, (3.5%)
Los Angeles Times: 775,766, (8.0%)
The New York Post: 704,011, 5.3%
Daily News, New York: 693,382, 1.0%
The Washington Post: 656,297, (3.3%)
Chicago Tribune: 576,132, (1.7%)
Houston Chronicle: 508,097, (3.6%)
Newsday: 413,579, (4.9%)
The Arizona Republic, Phoenix: 397,294, (2.5%)
The Boston Globe: 386,415, (6.7%)
The Star-Ledger, Newark, N.J.: 378,100, (5.5%)
San Francisco Chronicle: 373,805, (5.3%)
The Star Tribune, Minneapolis: 358,887, (4.1%)
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution: 350,157, (3.4%)
The Plain Dealer, Cleveland: 336,939, (0.6%)
The Philadelphia Inquirer: 330,622, (7.5%)
Detroit Free Press: 328,628, (3.6%)
The Oregonian, Portland: 310,803, (6.8%)
The San Diego Union-Tribune: 304,334, (3.1%)
St. Petersburg (Fla.) Times: 288,676, (3.2%)
The Orange County (Calif.) Register: 287,204, (3.7%)
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch: 276,588, 0.6%
The Sacramento (Calif.) Bee: 273,609, (5.4%)

Three gainers, 22 losers.