"U.S. publishers come in for withering criticism in a report ... from the German Newspaper Publishers’ Association. The study contrasts the crisis facing American newspapers with the somewhat healthier state of their German counterparts. While daily newspaper circulation in the United States fell 27 percent from 1998 through 2008, it slipped 19 percent in Germany. While fewer than half of Americans read newspapers, more than 70 percent of Germans do." (Quoted from article)