You can have FREE SPEECH, but if it is part of the product you are selling, look out for reduced or NO profit--maybe a loss.
1 posted on
10/13/2004 2:17:31 PM PDT by
Ramonan
To: Ramonan
I personally think it was a crock that the "mainstream" (sic) media made such a to-do about a neo-socialist "newspaper" with a circulation of 425 endorsing Kerry.
If any other hometown paper with a ciruclation of ~400 had endorsed Bush, it would have been a non-story to the Leftist media.
2 posted on
10/13/2004 2:20:19 PM PDT by
Prime Choice
(It is dangerous to be right when wicked is called 'good.')
To: Ramonan
A dozen more readers cancel and he is at zero.
3 posted on
10/13/2004 2:21:27 PM PDT by
Raycpa
(Alias, VRWC_minion,)
To: Ramonan
Why isn't the MSM reporting this!!!!
4 posted on
10/13/2004 2:21:29 PM PDT by
RAY
(They that do right are all heroes!)
To: Ramonan
tee heee heee heeee heheeeeee
To: Ramonan
Free speech comes with responsibility! Just ask the Dixie...er...uh...What were their names? :-)
6 posted on
10/13/2004 2:25:13 PM PDT by
hiredhand
To: Ramonan
Geez, when will the media wake up? This paper isn't the real thing. Per their own website, they only have 200-something subscribers. The highschool paper prints more copies than that.
7 posted on
10/13/2004 2:25:38 PM PDT by
mtbopfuyn
To: Ramonan
Pity party, NOT.
You go under, you go under! Tough!
11 posted on
10/13/2004 2:38:29 PM PDT by
OldFriend
(It's the soldier, not the reporter who has given US freedom of the press)
To: Ramonan
Smith expects there will be more, and he's preparing for the worst.
"It will probably put us under," he said
= = = = =
And the downside is....?
To: Ramonan
Only a dozen had canceled? Perhaps the others are out of town.
It is reported that "they also were busy fielding phone call after phone call from curious journalists, emotional readers, and angry advertisers."
Wonder if there was just one, curious and furious journalist.
15 posted on
10/13/2004 3:09:34 PM PDT by
cricket
(Don't lose your head. . vote Republican. . .)
To: Ramonan
He's also the mayor of Clifton and a Democrat who was defeated twice in campaigns for the Texas House of Representatives.Question: Did the MSM point that out when they played up the story of the hometown newspaper snub? Did the MSM highlight The Lowell Sun's endorsement of Bush with equal weight? Will they note the circulation difference between the two papers?
18 posted on
10/13/2004 3:25:45 PM PDT by
NonValueAdded
(Kerry: I wholeheartedly disagree with you beyond expression)
To: Ramonan
The solution is to a) buy the newspaper and change its editorial policy or b) start up your own newspaper and go into business against it :-).
19 posted on
10/13/2004 3:48:05 PM PDT by
NotJustAnotherPrettyFace
(Michael <a href = "http://www.michaelmoore.com/" title="Miserable Failure">"Miserable Failure"</a>)
To: Ramonan
Smith isn't the brightest bulb on the tree, huh? Failed pol and now a failed publisher.
20 posted on
10/13/2004 3:48:12 PM PDT by
thegreatbeast
(Quid lucrum istic mihi est?)
To: Ramonan
"As of Wednesday morning, more than a dozen readers had canceled their subscription and six advertisers had pulled their spots from the paper. Smith expects there will be more, and he's preparing for the worst. "It will probably put us under," he said."
Cry me a river!
24 posted on
10/13/2004 4:33:08 PM PDT by
LuigiBasco
(It's LONG past time to restart The Crusades.)
To: Ramonan
A few weeks ago, a reporter for the paper wrote and posted a column here at FR. It's pretty informative:
HERE
To: Ramonan
"He's also the mayor of Clifton and a Democrat who was defeated twice in campaigns for the Texas House of Representatives. "
The fact that he was defeated twice tells you that, although he has support in Clifton, his support in the area outside of Clifton is not very strong. I'm guessing he does not speak for the majority of people in his district.
26 posted on
10/13/2004 4:46:13 PM PDT by
Rocky
(Heinz Kerry: 57 positions on any issue)
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