Reader: Print is dead, and someone should tell the Denver Post

• What? Then why is there a constant drumbeat of a sinking ship over at the post, Michael? Where's the story commending the Post for its solid circulation figures? Where's the balance?

• Looks like they dumped Righthaven just in time http://www.vegasinc.com/news/2011/nov/01/marshals-ordered-seize-righthaven-assets/

• There's some new math involved in the current figures, but no question the Post's latest circ figures seem to be holding up pretty well. Thanks for sharing your thoughts.

• Good try, but no. This is the second reporting period in counting circulation differently, so you can't compare current figures to previous periods. Here's a primer of how things are measured now. http://www.poynter.org/latest-news/business-news/the-biz-blog/129252/todays-circulation-numbers-bring-new-baseline-for-measuring-newspaper-growth-or-decline/ The story today was typical Post trying to spin the numbers in its favor while completely burying the nugget that you can't compare the circulation figures in this period to the same six months of last year.

• Hmm, Post's print circulation just went up. Guess they're not the ones who need to get a clue

• Sheer genius. Clearly, there's nobody at the Post "with a clue." Never mind the other commenter who explained the economics of print advertising later on.

• Well, that question has been answered, as the new publisher has made it abundantly clear (chronicled by Westword) that digital is the future of the paper. There's still room for a print product with more in-depth work -- I just don't understand why they're publishing daily still in a print format. How has the Detroit experiment gone of publishing print just a few days a week?

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