Hey Liberal Media, meet the free marketplace! Hurts don't it?
No such thing as bias anymore!
Dan Rather is off the hook!
Do they teach "stupid" in journalism school or is it an entry requirement?
If they were Catholics, this would be called penance for their sins. I can't imagine they are enjoying this demeaning chore.
I think it's pretty funny.
I didn't know "I have a plan" was in and of itself a viable plan. I guess the Inquirer did... along with different, and better.
Yeah, right, Satullo. You were last seen writing this moronic column that implicitly called for the death of President Bush:
"a list of a couple of hundred people who had canceled during the election cycle and had not been contacted"
Multiple ways to read this. If--as is likely--the paper had MANY more than 200 who canceled--this could be a waffle phrase to save the ad rates which drop when circulation drops. If there were only a couple of hundred who cancelled, (again that is very likely NOT the truth) then we need to help people understand that if we continue supporting these partisan media they will continue propagandizing...on OUR dime.
I note that the Exec. Ed. merely invited people to take THEIR time to travel and come to HER office....any FOOL that does will be used as cannon fodder for their future "objective" posturing....
We were given the task of destroying Bush's campaign. We wanted to influence the election, and get a left-wing extremist into the Whitehouse -- we just never expected it to have an impact on our circulation.
The newspaper he works for should shrivel and die. He should be fired. And anywhere else that he applies for a job should reject him on the spot, given his black-death history in publishing. Of course, his wife should leave him, his children turn against him, and if I were really hostile, I'd hope to poison his well and shoot his dog. But I like dogs.
Congressman Billybob
I'm surprised the media isn't crying censorship the way the Hollywierd leftists did when people started boycotting their movies.
I write a little topical radio comedy service, but I think I make far more effort to insure that the news set-ups to my jokes are objective and impartial than does anyone at CBS, the NY Times, et al. Since they find it impossible even to grasp the concept of bias, if Peter Jennings would like, I'd be happy to go through his news script every night before airtime with a blue pencil and remove the bias, which to me practically leaps out of the TV screen.
A St. Pete Times dialer called last night and asked if I want to subscribe to their newspaper. I told the lady to give me a second to ask my parrot. She stayed on the line a good two minutes.
5.56mm
I dropped the ultra liberal San Jose Mercury News over a year ago. I had subscribed to it for over 30 years. I now get all my news from the Internet.
Maybe some of these major newspapers ought to start editorializing on how John Kerry should now disclose his "secret plan to end the war". Sure, he lost the election and all, but for the good of the country and the benefit of the troops, he should tell us what his plan is and every newspaper, especially those which endorsed him, should be pressuring him to do so. Yeah, sure, that'll happen.
It is good to see some of these a--hole "news" people reduced to doing telephone solicitation work, though. Working there way down to their appropriate role in the business - having their own paper routes.
And my response would be "Why bother talking about it - it would be like talking to a brick wall."
Nothing any reader can say will change their mind. Bennett and their other editorial board members have been on Philly talk radio, and it is clear that they could really care less about what their readers think, or about any "diversity" of thought at their paper.
On Thursday, a handful of top editors, including the executive editor, Amanda Bennett, began making personal phone calls to former subscribers, many of whom dropped the paper this year after The Inquirer ran a series of editorials favoring John F. Kerry for president."If the people I call say, 'Yes, I was mad at your editorial,' then the next thing I say is, 'Would you like to come in and talk about it?' " Ms. Bennett said.
The irony: Conservatives are the subversives, getting truth to the masses by bucking the corporate masters and writing in their pajamas.
Liberals who work their 9-5 job and go to the office everyday disdain this.
If they are calling folks .. they lost ALOT more subscribers then just from the election
The Philly Inquirer is a liberal rag
The only newspaper that I have read since college in 1968, is the Wall Street Journal.