Posted on 08/04/2004 3:12:01 AM PDT by Liberty Wins
"conservative Christian values"
Isn't that a hate crime in Seattle??
Young people will seize the future and the destiny of the world.
The Left will be left behind in the garbage dump of history--where it belongs.
I stopped home delivery of the Dallas Morning News years ago and get my news fron Free Republic and the internet. Danged if I'm going to pay for a liberal rag!
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I read my Des Moines Red Star online. I refuse to give them any more of my hard-earned money.
I lived in the Dallas area when it was a two-paper town, and would not take the Morning News. I took the Times Herald, which was more conservative, and I regretted seeing the Times Herald disappear. But that was before the Internet, which is my main news source now, other than FoxNews.
Thank you for a wonderful post. It made my morning! I grew up in the 60s and 70s (graduated college in 1975) and, as a result, spent most of my adulthood as a liberal. The Clinton administration, 9/11 and the gay bishop have changed me forever. I am now a staunch conservative. Thank God for the younger conservatives. We should support them as much as we can.
This has piqued my curiosity. Anyone know what is involved in starting a newspaper?
I been posting this for months now. Everyone said that FNC would not work and not has it worked, but is a bigger than both CNN and MSNBC combined.
We need a conservative USA Today type of national paper. What we do is we have all these conservative groups from around the country that are starting up their own papers as reporters and they submit articles daily. What the AP and Reuters reports, the articles are actually edited correctly to present the event in a fair and balanced perspective. Editorials remain conservative.
We are slowly getting there. Like the Marxists we need better organization and a fixed goal and timeframe to do this. A guy like Murdoch I am sure would be an investor.
Once this is in place, You now go after the big boys at the local level. We can win the media war. We muct win it. That is the only way we can change this country, by changing the information.
Hopefully the Trib in Pgh got a nice bump in subscribers after Teresa's "shove it" comment generated some nice publicity for them...
Tell me about it... :)
Hit their advertisers! This is the one thing the liberal press fears the most. If companies are effected just 1% because of where they advertise, they will reconsider how much money they put in the source of advertising.
I think it would help if conservatives learned to use emotional appeals based on basic civil and human rights to argue thier positions.
Promoting tax reform by arguing that ownership of the fruits your hard work, good decisions, and responsible acts, all positive human activities which benefit a civil society, is a basic human right works well for me. Claiming that preparing to make good decisions and having the self-discipline to act responsibility should be rewarded by a civil society, not punished, has been a consistent winning point. Pointing out that information is power and the current tax code gives politicians and lobbyists enormous amounts of information to use for personal vendettas or personal enrichment also works well.
The media doesn't like hearing someone argue that government ownership of every American's skin color is violation of their basic human rights. No one should be able to use someone's skin color as a basis for any legal action against an indidual or business without written authorization. Without ownership of everyone's skin color, the government can't use skin color to diminish the value of any American's achievements.
And no one seems to want to talk about intergenerational taxation. Current law and judicial precedent will require the average child in America to pay over 80% of their lifetime earnings in federal taxes. It's easy to argue for limited, sustainable government when you point out the alternative is a lifetime of slavery for America's children. "Do it for the children" has a whole new meaning.
FYI - Murdoch owns USA Today!
I agree, though, with your overall message. I live in the Bay Area which is probably the most leftist and loony (and beautiful) place in the US, yet just a few years ago an underpowered radio station, KSFO, converted from oldies to conservative talk and has become the number one station here. So I have no doubt that there is a huge pent up demand for a conservative newspaper, and would be a great financial success.
I, like you, have been trying to find a way to get that started - written to some of the conservative on-line publishers proposing the idea with no takers. I don't know anything about publishing a paper and don't have contact with conservative reporters to get one going, but I would gladly invest in such a venture, both for political as well as financial reasons.
I cancelled my subscription to the San Jose Merc years ago for health reasons after I realized that every morning when I stared at the propaganda on the front page my blood pressure would shoot up 20 or 30 points. My days have been much more enjoyable ever since.
Can we talk LOS ANGELES next!
This town is the most lopsided press-propaganda city in the nation.....THERE IS NO COMPETITION! The LA SLIMES is out of control.
KABC talk radio here in LA with Sean, Bill, Al and Larry have replaced my need for the Slimes. So I cancelled them! IT WAS VERY LIBERATING!
My family lives just south of here in Orange County and they have a very weel balanced newspaper The OC Registrer. I believe it is also for sale. My father keeps saying it would be a great move if they would start printing a Los Angeles edition.......The SLIMES would gag!
I think most Americans have no idea how liberal most of America's dailies are. In the midwest virtually every major paper is a liberal-spouting rag. Even the once bastion of conservatism The Chicago Tribune is infested with lib ideology. Just read the op-ed page to get my point. But every other big city rag in the midwest is outright dominated by libs. Heck, even my old hometown paper The La Crosse (Wis) Tribune formerly a conservative paper now all but campaigns for Kerry and lib ideas. I'd gladly pay twice what they charge to get an alternative conservative paper going.
Sign me up.
A couple of years ago Riordan was rumored to be considering starting a newspaper in LA. After being LA mayor for 8 years he definitely recognised the need. Guess it was too much for him.
The LA Slimes is the most biased newspaper in the country IMNSHO.
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