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According to a report released yesterday by the Newspaper Association of America and picked up today by the Boston Globe ,newspaper circulation overall is down 2.5% from the same period last year. The two biggest losers on the list were the San Francisco Chronicle with a drop of 15% and the Boston Globe with an 8% drop. My first thought, which is echoed in the article, is that it is not surprising that the two most wired and tech savvy cities in the country should see an exodus away from newspapers and onto the web for news. The problem for newspapers is that those defections are not going to newspaper sites, but rather to Google News and other web only news sites.