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America's largest newspaper chain Gannett orders USA Today and other publications to roll back op-eds after 'repelling readers' with biased articles
UK Daily Mail ^ | 6/10/2022 | Jennifer Smith

Posted on 06/10/2022 1:47:52 PM PDT by fruser1

America's largest newspaper chain Gannett has instructed its newsrooms to scale back opinion pieces which are 'repelling readers' who do not want to be told what to do.

The newspaper chain owns the USA Today network which takes in hundreds of local newspapers in almost every state across the country.

At a recent editors committee meeting in April, editors said in a presentation: 'Readers don’t want us to tell them what to think.

'They don’t believe we have the expertise to tell anyone what to think on most issues.

Readers this week reacted to the news by telling the media company to hire 'writers that aren't left-wing activists.'

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


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KEYWORDS: bias; bidenvoters; chat; chatforum; freespeech; gannett; garbagewrapper; media; mediawingofthednc; msm; opeds; partisanmediashill; partisanmediashills; press; ronklain; usatoday
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Well, that's one piece of good news.
1 posted on 06/10/2022 1:47:52 PM PDT by fruser1
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To: fruser1

What are they gonna do, leave the pages blank? They have ZERO credibility.


2 posted on 06/10/2022 1:49:25 PM PDT by fuente (Liberty resides in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box and the cartridge box--Fredrick Douglas)
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To: fruser1

Nothing will get me to buy a newspaper again.


3 posted on 06/10/2022 1:50:17 PM PDT by JonPreston (Q: Never have so many, been so wrong, so often)
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To: fruser1

Anyone brainless enough to read any Gannett paper needs to be told to breathe, so don’t expect anything much to happen with this.


4 posted on 06/10/2022 1:50:23 PM PDT by decal (They won't stop, so they'll have to be stopped)
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To: fruser1
editors said in a presentation: 'Readers don’t want us to tell them what to think.

No sh^t, Sherlock.

5 posted on 06/10/2022 1:50:58 PM PDT by llevrok (Pronouns: Me/myself/& I)
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To: fruser1
...by telling the media company to hire 'writers that aren't left-wing activists.'

Well, that's half of it. The other half is to fire the left wing hack writers.

6 posted on 06/10/2022 1:51:36 PM PDT by 17th Miss Regt
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To: fruser1

The liberals can’t help themselves.

Don’t believe anything you read in the left wing democrat media.

ANYTHING !!!


7 posted on 06/10/2022 1:52:29 PM PDT by Pearfect
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Which means the removal of Conservative voices.


8 posted on 06/10/2022 1:54:24 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: fruser1

“ scale back opinion pieces which are ‘repelling readers’ who do not want to be told what to do.”

Get rid off the real root of the control freak problem - libtards 🤪


9 posted on 06/10/2022 1:57:36 PM PDT by NWFree (Somebody has to say it)
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To: fuente

Yeah, after how many years of lies, half-truths(?), misinformation, disinformation, malinformation, lopsided coverage.....Too little too late assclowns. Hell they’d have to fire 90% of the Reno-gayzette journal. Repelled beyond caring if they go bankrupt.


10 posted on 06/10/2022 1:58:00 PM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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To: fruser1

Back to pretending they aren’t communists?


11 posted on 06/10/2022 1:58:26 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
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To: fruser1

A few decades behind the curve, eh?


12 posted on 06/10/2022 2:01:10 PM PDT by Obadiah ("America is facing a winter of severe illness and death." Biden's own summary of his America.)
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To: fruser1

The Left has been too successful as of late.

It’s going to cost them in November this year, and in
November 2024.

The month after the Republicans take over Congress again, the
SCOTUS will have nine Justices sitting on the court.

The B. S. has been too crazy, and thinking folks are going
to have their say.


13 posted on 06/10/2022 2:01:13 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (I pledge allegiance the flag of the U S of A, and to the REPUBLIC for which it stands.)
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To: fuente; fruser1
They may put the mask back on, but their contempt for the reader remains as vile as ever.

'Today’s contemporary audiences frequently are unable to distinguish between objective news reporting and Opinion content.

Actually, we CAN distinguish very accurately. Keep going...

'In the old days, content appearing on print pages that were clearly labeled helped alleviate those concerns, along with a society that possessed a higher news literacy.

Man, oh Manischewitz....they think we are dolts.

The editors said they had been losing reader subscriptions as a result of their perceived bias.


14 posted on 06/10/2022 2:01:38 PM PDT by DoodleBob (Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s^2)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; BraveMan; cardinal4; ...
IOW, in the past 20 years USA Today has published one article that wasn't grossly insulting to conservatives -- and that writer will be fired.

15 posted on 06/10/2022 2:02:13 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: 17th Miss Regt

They need to fire the left wing writers, editors, publishers en masse.

Any writer/editor that mentions “climate change”, “pride month”, “white racism”, “gun control”, or any other leftist dog whistles needs to be terminated on the spot.


16 posted on 06/10/2022 2:03:42 PM PDT by cgbg (A kleptocracy--if they can keep it. Think of it as the Cantillon Effect in action.)
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To: fruser1

Firing all bidet and bernie bros would be a good start.


17 posted on 06/10/2022 2:09:06 PM PDT by dynachrome (“We cannot save Ukraine by dooming the US economy.” Rand Paul)
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To: fruser1

Gannett must have entered the “Netflix Zone”, where a loss of subscribers, due to over-wokeness, suddenly reaches critical levels.


18 posted on 06/10/2022 2:09:34 PM PDT by Flick Lives (The CDC. Brought to you by Pfizer)
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To: fruser1

The Ministry of Propaganda wants to fool people into thinking they have heard us and are changing.


19 posted on 06/10/2022 2:11:36 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin ( (Natural born citizens are born here of citizen parents)(Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Flick Lives

In other words, got woke, going broke.


20 posted on 06/10/2022 2:13:42 PM PDT by Cecily ( )
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