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If the idiots would drop their leftist agenda and start reporting news, people would subscribe and they would make money. Instead, they produce socialist agitprop and wonder why people don't buy it.

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If the idiots would drop their leftist agenda and start reporting news, people would subscribe and they would make money. Instead, they produce socialist agitprop and wonder why people don't buy it.

They can't. People are in the newspaper business because that is, in their minds, the most significant business to be in. Journalists don't do anything; they are critics. So journalists have to believe that Theodore Roosevelt was wrong when he said :

"It is not the critic who counts . . . the credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena . . .

To the extent that they reject that notion, they promote criticism and second guessing over providing food, clothing, shelter, security, fuel, and any other necessity. And to that extent they promote journalists in general by calling all journalists (even, or especially, their competitors) "objective" - and by assigning similarly virtuous labels to anyone else who is in the complaining professions (union leader, plaintiff lawyer, Democratic politician . . .).

Why Broadcast Journalism is
Unnecessary and Illegitimate

[Milhous]

Instead, they produce socialist agitprop and wonder why people don't buy it.

My hometown fishwrap throws the occasional Coulter column topside right on their opinion page then tries to call it even. On the facing page they offer a Mallard toon right side of their Doonsbury toon. Other than that you get border to border hippie chick pie wagons they call "women" moonbat crazy flailing away at whipping boys topped off with a Lukovichesque toon in the center.

I'm going to miss old Molly Ivins. Instead of actually reading her screeds you could simply count her use of the word Bush to get a fairly good metric of the current state of her Bush Derangement Syndrome.