Memo To Dallas Morning News:
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Posted on 12/19/2016 7:38:41 PM PST by Kaslin
The Dallas Morning News has endorsed a Republican in every presidential election, but decided to buck the trend and endorse two-time presidential loser Hillary Clinton. That appears to have hit the publication’s bottom line, as scores of customers have decided to scrap their subscriptions. T. Becket Adams at The Washington Examiner had more:
"[S]ome people have cancelled their subscriptions, so we lost some customers at a time when it's tough to lose customers," editor Mike Wilson told the Washington Examiner Tuesday evening.
Earlier, in an interview with Poynter, Wilson said the Dallas Morning News experienced some unpleasant pushback after it announced its support for Clinton, breaking its more than 75-year-old tradition of endorsing GOP candidates for president.
"Certainly we've paid a price for our presidential recommendation, but then, we write our editorials based on principle, and sometimes principle comes at a cost," he said. "I've had a lot of conversations with readers lately, and I respect their views and their right to disagree with us. The most important thing to us is that they vote, even if it's not for our favorite candidate, because democracy doesn't work if people don't vote."
Dallas Morning News made their decision and they’re willing to accept the consequences, yet wasn’t denying Hillary Clinton the presidency the Right’s overriding principle for the 2016? Granted, I was not a Trump supporter - you all know this from my past blogs. I even said that he wouldn’t be the nominee, let alone the next president. But then he won the 2016 primary, he clinched the nomination, and now he’s going to be the next president of the United States. My guys, Rubio and Walker, had their shot. They lost. Trump won, he was the best shot we had to defeat Clinton, and so I had to fall in line. Given how things turned out, I’ve never been happier to be wrong. Clinton will never be president. That’s the best Christmas gift of all for the country. As for principle, it’s pretty clear that his cabinet isn’t filled with soft left-wingers. He’s made sound choices that have garnered the approval of ardent liberals, like John Kerry, to experienced Republicans in foreign policy, like former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates. Let’s see what he does—and I’m sure The Dallas Morning News will do the same. The era of Obama is over. The Trump presidency is about to begin.
Good.
People just aren’t willing to pay for #fakenews anymore. The market is too flooded with it.
When they catch you in public and kick your ARSE and take your wallet to help pay their taxes you will think it is worse than now. It will get worse for liberals.
TS.
We can do better on line, and for free.
No one wants to read your hopelessly skewed and fatuous opinions, restated as ‘fact.’
Funny how that happens. I ended my 30 year subscription to the Kansas City RED STAR in 2008. Never had looked back. The paper is about ready to fold. Circulation fell more than 50% at that time. Now the paper is only good for kitty litter or wrapping up dog doo doo.
“newspapers”
How quaint. How twentieth century.
The guy said blah blah blah blah??
Maroon...
Memo To Dallas Morning News:
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Identical situation for my local rag, the Cincinnati Enquirer. Dead paper walking.
TV depends on subscriptions NONE.
TV ONLY answers to their advertisers.
Good.
Legacy media is now bloggers for billionaire. WaP, NYT operate at a loss but are owned by billionaires to have political influence.
Elections have consequences. My free speech extends to my buying power.
I’m now boycotting the NFL, Will Smith, Pepsi, etc. etc.
I always thought that newspaper endorsements were stupid. Either way you are going to pi$$ off about 50% of your readers.
Couldn’t happen to a nicer rag. In the last few decades, it has morphed into little more than a leftist mouthpiece. When it eventually folds, I have but two words: Good Riddance.
that and the Times used to be good papers
it's not even thick enough to line the birdcage with anymore.
Meh !
They are owned by the party and simply exist to disseminate the commie party “news releases.”
Same can be said for the Des Moines Registered Communist.
Craigslist is a magnet for scammers and oddballs but it did do us all a great service and exacted a huge measure of revenge by undercutting the classified ad sections of newspapers.
The classifieds were stupid expensive, even compared to display ads, hence the often cryptic abbreviations, and they were the financial lifeblood of many papers.
Price gouging and monopolies are ugly things (as Obamacare has demonstrated) and the smug editors and columnists at these papers got their just desserts as they watched the business model go up in smoke.
I would, honestly, pay a reasonable amount for a newspaper with no advertising at all to eliminate obvious and ongoing influence by advertisers. For example, papers will report on bad pothole repair or slow mail but they won’t touch stories on bad service at car dealerships. Gee, I wonder why?
Anyway, papers abused their financial and First Amendment roles and made a rod for their own back.
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