If you're the sort of wonk who not only reads the Audit Bureau of Circulations' semiannual release of newspaper circulation figures but compares the ways they're reported in different newspapers, you might have spotted an oddity two weeks ago. According to the Tribune , its circulation increased 0.6 percent to 661,699. It's a case of apples and oranges. On Monday and Tuesday, Tribune circulation averaged 552,595, down 4.5 percent from the previous year. That's what the Sun-Times and New York Times did.
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