Keith C. Burris: Truth, fairness and the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Post-Gazette ^ | 6/10/20 | Keith C. Burris

[Libloather]

In recent days the readers of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette have been subjected to a great deal of disinformation about the Post-Gazette.

It is time for the rest of the story.

Let’s start with this: Editors at this newspaper did not single out a black reporter and a black photographer and ban them from covering Pittsburgh protests after the killing of George Floyd.

And we certainly did not single out two people and keep them from covering local protests because they were black. That is an outrageous lie - a defamation, in fact.

We assumed the lie was so outrageous that it did not need refutation. We assumed most people could read the paper and see for themselves that the charge is an outrageous fabrication. We still think that, ultimately, this is true and that readers can think for themselves.

But we underestimated the power of social media and the corrosive potency of the racist label. It need only be said and it is assumed by some people to be true.

[Libloather]

Keith C. Burris was just on Laura Ingraham's show. Sounds like he's getting railroaded by the mob.

[stevem]

I’m not familiar with the Post-Gazette. How has this paper covered the Trump Administration in news or editorials?

[Leaning Right]

> How has this paper covered the Trump Administration in news or editorials? <

It’s what you’d expect from a paper located in a big Democrat-dominated city. The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette is far left. Not crazy far left. Just far left. Journalistic balance is definitely not one of their strong suits.

[Libloather]

Burris mentioned that paper endorsed Hussein twice.

[Vigilanteman]

The Post-Gazette is the far more liberal of Pittsburgh's two major newspapers. The other is the more balanced Tribune Review which was once a minor rival based in the eastern suburb of Greensburg.

Roughly a decade ago, it overtook the Post-Gazette in circulation and moved into the city. A couple of years ago, the Post-Gazette cried uncle and stopped doing a print edition. You still see an occasional television advertisement reminding people that they still publish an on-line edition.

Which is what makes this story so outrageously funny. Get woke, go broke. And it still isn't enough for these leftist jackals.

The Tribune Review even publishes a couple of their former columnists on their editorial pages to lend balance. I believe bow-tie boy George Will was the token conservative of the Post-Gazette when they did a print edition.

[abb]

IIRC, Trib was a major player in Whitewater.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pittsburgh_Tribune-Review

The Tribune-Review Publishing Company was owned by Richard Mellon Scaife, an heir to the Mellon banking, oil, and aluminum fortune, until his death in July 2014. Scaife was a major funder of conservative organizations, including the Arkansas Project.

[Vigilanteman]

True, but it is now a shadow of what it used to be when Richard Mellon Scaife was alive. Now, they often seem more aligned with the Never Trump wing of the GOP than the mainstream conservative movement.

[USS Alaska]

I’m not familiar with the Post-Gazette. How has this paper covered the Trump Administration in news or editorials?

Communist Pravda was more fair and balanced than is the P-G.

Burris is a lefty that is getting caught up in the BLM movement by not being communist enough.

I hope they dox his house and he finds out what conservatives must go through every day.

I have no pity for burris and the Post can go out of business and only 50-60 old communists would care.

[Buckeye McFrog]

I’m not familiar with the Post-Gazette. How has this paper covered the Trump Administration in news or editorials?

The PG has been a Leftist cesspool going WAY back. My parents dropped their subscription in the early 70's because the editorial slant had gone so far left. The Press and the Tribune-Review were both marginally more conservative, but both have assumed room temperature at this point.

[Buckeye McFrog]

You have it backwards. The Post Gazette still publishes a print edition (though I think they’re down to 3 days per week). The Tribune-Review ceased it’s print edition entirely and is now 100% online.

The Trib has moved way-left since Dick Scaife died. It’s now the work of brainwashed woke twentysomethings who remain on the skeleton staff.

[Vigilanteman]

Um, I get the print edition of the Tribune-Review. I see it being delivered every day in my neighborhood, though I only subscribe on Thursday and Sunday for the coupons and ads mainly. It still isn’t as far left as the Post-Gazette.

[stevem]

The Tribune Review even publishes a couple of their former columnists on their editorial pages to lend balance. I believe bow-tie boy George Will was the token conservative of the Post-Gazette when they did a print edition.

That must have been when Will still provided a good and worth-while opinion and read.

[stevem]

Thank you all for the notification. One thing I have always enjoyed about FreeRepublic is local reporting that tells me what is on the ground around the country.

Burris thinks he has been slandered. Something tells me his coverage of Trump has contained some slander...maybe not enough to keep his customers happy. If he weathers this storm, he will probably continue slandering Trump and his supporters.

[Vigilanteman]

Not exactly. Like the Washington Compost, the Post-Gazette thinks Will is a model conservative . . . a well dressed houseboy with some different opinions but fundamentally obedient on the more important matters.