Posted on 09/14/2009 7:17:58 PM PDT by Justaham
On Twitter, Virginia Postrel writes:
“Per @Romenesko, Washpo lost $143 million through the first six months of this year” Which means they lose $1.10 PER COPY. Yikes.”
Yikes indeed. So why is this happening? Yes, there are certainly key technological changes that are driving the Red Queen’s Race. But, as John Nolte writes at Big Hollywood, “T’was Accountability That Led the Mainstream Media to Suicide”:
Mainstream news outlets have been caught off guard before, but they used to play catch up. Today they play “hide the ball.” For as long as I’ve been politically aware the media’s been biased, but willfully ignoring a major national news story at great cost to their credibility and relevance is a new low. So what changed?
(Excerpt) Read more at pajamasmedia.com ...
Two reasons for that, Gays and Unions.
Newspapers are one of the most heavily unionized industries in America, from the Reporter’s Guilds, to the pressmen and Truck Drivers. And gays have become a HUGE part of the media over the last two decades. In some media outlets, you cannot even get hired of you aren’t gay.
And BOTH are beholden to the Democrats, or HATE Republicans.
But let's use some trees, please. Print and distribute http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/*/index at 6:00 each morning and distribute for $0.50 to those who would like to receive but have no Internet source. Use the proceeds for beer, more productivity, and charity.
They lose money on each copy but they make up for it in volume...
The problem is that they have become accountable only to the far left socialists. They have forgotten about the sacred duty that newspapers are supposed to have and to REPORT the news in a fair and unbiased manner. Instead, they are little more than a bunch of willing propaganda pieces, shilling for Obama.
If even ONE of them had an ounce of honesty, they would be following Orly Taiz around HELPING her get to the bottom of the story, for good or bad. Instead they mock those who think that it is just a bit suspicious when a president refuses to open his documents and spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to keep them hid and prove the people who are challenging him are kooks.
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