But he might be sailing close to the wind by talking about his circulation figures ahead of the strict ABC embargo of midday on 11 February.
Spain's El Mundo lags considerably behind El País in print circulation, but is ahead of it online: 42% of its readers are overseas, and though it sells no print copies in Latin America it is among the top two or three news sites in every Spanish-speaking country there, says its deputy editor, Ignacio Gil.
"Circulations are so far ahead of where they were 20 years ago," he told the Observer.
"Circulations are so far ahead of where they were 20 years ago," he says.
At higher Reynolds number, in both steady and accelerating flow, the gas bubble near to the inlet shows a concave region on the axis, with re-circulation in the liquid ahead of it.
This will put early unofficial sales estimates at perhaps more than 480,000, ahead of the circulation level of about 474,000 pre-NoW closure.
Private Eye held on to the number one spot among news magazines in the second half of 2013 with a print circulation of more than 220,000, ahead of The Economist and The Week.
In the six months to the end of September, the Daily News recorded a combined print and app circulation of 605,677 (keeping it ahead of the Post's 512,067 despite years of Murdoch price-cutting).
The Daily News and the Post, which represent Thing One and Thing Two to the New York Times's Cat in the Hat, have relentlessly chased each other in a slowly declining print market with the Daily News coming out ahead, with a circulation of just over 600,000 a day while the Post has slipped to just over 500,000.
