Posted on 09/28/2016 10:26:50 PM PDT by BlackFemaleArmyColonel
Smug liberal newspapers and tv networks have paid a heavy price for their criticism of Trump. Americans think of Trump as the underdog in this race and there’s nothing worse than piling on the underdog. For these liberal hacks who have been writing their leftist opinions as opposed to real news for decades, they’re about to find out what it means to be considered irrelevant by their former readers…
The subscription cancellations were coming every 10 minutes. Angry readers have been calling in droves.
“We’re feeling the weight of our history,” Phil Boas, the editorial page editor of The Arizona Republic, said in a telephone interview on Wednesday. Until it endorsed Hillary Clinton on Tuesday, the newspaper, founded in 1890, had never endorsed a Democrat over a Republican for president.
In endorsing Mrs. Clinton, The Republic’s editorial was, by any interpretation, scathing toward her opponent, Donald J. Trump. “Trump responds to criticism with the petulance of verbal spit wads,” the editorial says at one point. “That’s beneath our national dignity.”
The papers lay out different reasons for supporting Mrs. Clinton over Mr. Trump — his lack of political experience versus her established political career, his outbursts and insults versus her steadiness — and some are perhaps more repudiations of Mr. Trump than glowing endorsements of Mrs. Clinton, whose faults are also cited.
For some readers, however, the endorsements proved a step too far. “Certainly, we’ve paid a price for our presidential recommendation,” Mike Wilson, the editor of The Dallas Morning News, told Poynter this month.
Mr. Boas of The Arizona Republic said he expected “a lot of cancellations,” pointing to cancellations at The Cincinnati Enquirer, which like The Republic, is owned by Gannett.
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Advertisers need to cancel too.
For some papers, the next year or two, if these people don’t return eventually....will spell their end as a 7-day-a-week newspaper. I think several dozen will become 5-day-a-week papers, and some will cut their staffs by fifty-percent to survive.
In this day and age, cancelled subscription is often permanent loss of readership because of alternate sources of news.
Newsprint is dead - the papers just haven’t yet been taken to the morgue.
Good luck finding employment, reporters.
You really shouldn’t have any trouble finding jobs - the world is chockablock with professional liars nowadays.
Gannett, the sh**bags of newspapers
They are still in business, aren't they? It hasn't been high enough.
[They are still in business, aren’t they? It hasn’t been high enough.]
Some are probably going to let their subscriptions run out and not renew.
Hopefully Trump will be like the meteorite 65 millions ago, killing off all these dinosaurs.
I remember newspapers.
Hehehe...more tea leaves folks, more tea leaves.
Everybody needs a little BOOM from time to time...
WHAT, please tell, will we deplorables be using to line the bottom of our bird’s cage or place on the floor to help in house-training our dogs and puppies?
Trump is rocking the status quo establishment’s boat and I’m LOVIN’ IT! I hope all of these Clintoon loving, commie lib “editors” choke on their newsprint.
Smart move in a dying industry. Anger the people who actually pay for your services. Typical move of a Democrat. And why do we think these were “conservative” papers?
More and more people are discovering they can live without newspapers, older subscribers are dying off, and younger people don’t read anything that isn’t on their phone. Add an endorsement for the biggest criminal ever to run for President, and people will read the comics on line.
Some years ago, a local newspaper editor was crusading for higher sales taxes to pay teachers more. (His wife was a school teacher, just by coincidence) The local car dealers threatened to pull their ads if he didn’t quit hurting their business, and he squealed like a stuck pig. he was fired shortly after.
Pittsburgh Tribune Review, right leaning, will stop doing print edition after Fri (though may still print in some suburbs)
We get the Sunday L.A. Times, not for the content but for the Shopping Coupons. I’m a Coupon clipper from way back.
I read parts of the Paper like the Calendar (entertainment) and Real Estate Sections. The rest I pretty much ignore.
Home Delivery cost us $10 a Year.
We used to get the Orange County Register, but they morphed from a Libertarian slant to a more Liberal one in recent years so there is no real difference between the two competing Newspapers anymore.
The kicker was they wanted $25 a Year for the O.C. Register Sunday Paper so I moved on to the other Fish Wrap.
I wish I could cancel a newspaper subscription to express my displeasure, but I cancelled my last one 15 years ago.
After going Internet-only, it’s pretty much like buying a Porsche and then shaking your fist at the last buggy whip maker as you blast down the Interstate highway at 95 mph.
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