(NYP/NYDN)There hasn"t been a ton of great news for the newspaper industry, well, since the late eighties, and the latest circulation numbers were no exception. Overall circulation was down almost 3 percent from the same period in 2005. There was a glimmer of hope for the New York tabloids, however. The Washington Post explained today that "the New York Post's circulation was up 5 percent, while the Daily News's rose 1 percent." That"s not quite how the Post and the News spun it, however. (See above, courtesy of Gothamist.) The unending rivalry between the Post and the News has now taken a page from well, their own pages (at least those that mention the mid-term election hoohah.) And yes, they sound exactly like political campaign managers. Number 5 on the Post"s "Top Ten Reasons The Post Beat The News"? "We break news - they break promises and don"t pay contest winners." Um, Snap? Not to worry, the News hit back. "The Daily News is still New York's Hometown Newspaper - and by a wide margin." Further down, the News quotes its editor in chief and deputy publisher, who "took dead aim at his half-price competitor" with this thoughtful tidbit: "If you'd lost $300 million over the past five years, spent $200 million on new presses, carpet-bombed neighborhoods with free copies and lost fortunes to sell a few thousand papers in Las Vegas and Los Angeles, you'd be desperate to celebrate creeping a few copies ahead of us. The Daily News is STILL unequivocally the No. 1 newspaper in the place that counts - New York." Perhaps this kind of mud-slinging will have the same effect for tabloids that it has had on voter turnout.
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Even if Democrats should take control of the Senate and House after the midterm elections, CBSNews.com's Dick Meyer doesn't think much will change. After all, President Bush will still be in office. But 2008 is a different story.
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For all the Tet talk, we have yet to see anything remotely like it in the war in Iraq, says the National Review Online.
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Bob Schieffer explains why he knows all he needs to about the Mark Foley scandal.
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Kevin Tillman, still grieving the combat death of his brother Pat, asks how the most respected country in the world has become so irrational, belligerent, feared, and distrusted?
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The National Review Online remembers the good old days of the newspaper sports page.
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The Nation says students are in the forefront of pushing renewable energy throughout the United States.
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The congressional page program should be history, says the National Review Online. High school students should be more concerned with the real life ahead of them than doing silly errands for members of Congress.
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Hanging chads proved that vote-counting is an imperfect process. But as the American Prospect writes, electronic voting can allow election tampering. The problem is no one may ever know.
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Her comments about Hillary Clinton made headlines last week, but Elizabeth Edwards, the wife of likely 2008 White House contender John Edwards, tackles much more important issues than presidential politics in her new book, says Dotty Lynch.
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Many conservatives are feeling the cold shoulder after word the administration privately mocks evangelicals. But the Weekly Standard warns staying home on Election Day and giving Democrats a walk-on victory will raise the terrorist threat.
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The American Prospect says the Bush administration can't grasp a crucial truth: In real diplomacy, talk is cheap.
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The National Review Online thinks there is still progress being made in Iraq, and that the United States should continue its efforts there.
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CBSNews.com Legal Analyst Andrew Cohen looks at the recent rash of suggestions to dump the document and replace it with something more attune to a time of terror. He doesn't agree.
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Many countries promote higher birthrates, hoping more workers will keep their economies strong. But the National Review Online warns that technology will put a lot of those babies out of work.
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The Detroit Tigers are playing the St. Louis Cardinals in the World Series. As The Nation writes, this year's Fall Classic brings the teams back to a city where not much has changed since they last met in 1968.
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The White House change of tune on 'stay the course' is very hard to swallow, says CBS' Dick Meyer, who doubts very much that he's the only one and wonders if a new definition of 'cut and run' can be far behind.
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Special Contributor Lloyd Garver finds it's getting harder and harder to avoid mud-slinging campaign ads. Even shutting off the television and radio isn't enough, as telephones are back to being party lines.
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United Professionals, a new organization for college-educated workers at risk in a global economy, is joining the movement for economic justice, reports The Nation.
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New Jersey's Senate race between Democratic incumbent Robert Menendez and Republican Thomas Kean Jr., which could decide which party controls the Senate, is all even as it heads into the homestretch, a CBS News/New York Times poll finds.
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CBSNews.com Legal Analyst Andrew Cohen says the New Jersey Supreme Court ruling on same-sex marriages really doesn't settle anything. It just moves the battle from the courthouse to the Statehouse.
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Protests at Gallaudet University over a new president had shut down America's only four-year college for the deaf and hearing-impaired. The Weekly Standard says it's reminiscent of 1968, when this kind of mayhem happened all the time.
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On the day Ford stops producing the car that almost outsold the Model T, Harry Smith explores the creation of the Taurus and laments its passing.
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The late Sen. Paul Wellstone predicted the people would be heard on the issue of stem cell research. It could happen this fall, says The Nation.
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Five years later, the situation in Afghanistan is quickly decaying, underscored by a resurgent Taliban. The American Prospect wonders if the woes of the "other war" prove it was a mistake, too.
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