This story reminds me of the immortal words of Andrew Breitbart:
“It’s not your business model that sucks. It you that sucks.”
By the way, I was a reporter for 25 years — never made the big leagues, but you use the same skills on the Podunk Gazette as on the New York Times.
I take the level of incompetence, bias, and duplicity in today’s media real, real, REAL personally.
If Trump wants to organize a new security agency to clean up media treason, please contact Nothingburger here at Free Republic. I would gladly come out of retirement.
You must really be disgusted then with the utter lack of competence in basic English grammar and composition skills demonstrated by today’s “journalists”.
I was in the tv news business for 10 years, many years ago.
The lazy tv news producers literally took their stories from the daily papers– clipped them out and xeroxed them for everyone– no original reporting whatsoever. The audience didn’t care, as it was less work than having to read the papers. Plus, pretty girls in cocktail dresses and men speaking in grave tones about things you were supposed to care about. It’s so quaint to see this charade is still exercised, though less egregiously.
The tv news managers went out of their way to avoid pissing off politicians and sponsors; the station managers and sales people were extremely sensitive to anything that affected their numbers. News directors obsessed over the Nielsens, which today look like nothing more than guesswork.
I was friendly with the company accountant at the time; we’d ride the train together. He once told me that the business was 100% profitable– they earned twice their expenses. I’m pretty sure that’s no longer the case.
Not sorry to see biased news die off.