Posted on 01/19/2005 12:50:47 PM PST by Temple Owl
The New York Times scooped the Philadelphia Inquirer on a story of which even Inky Executive Editor, Amanda Bennett, was aware. Ye gawds, Ms. Bennett was an important part of the story.
The Times found it interesting that the left-wing, liberal paper had its senior editors calling former subscribers who cancelled after the bright lights at the paper decided to run a series of 21 straight "vote for John F. Kerry" editorials.
The Times quoted Ms. Bennett as saying, "If the people I call say, 'Yes, I was mad at your editorial,' then the next thing I say is, 'Would you like to come in and talk about it?'" Ms. Bennett said.
Some of these former subscribers might be thinking that only extremely arrogant and stupid people would run a series of editorials called "21 Reasons to Elect Kerry."
Why would they want to talk to them?
Chris Satullo, the editorial page editor, said, "we did our job rather forcefully in supporting Kerry, and that only raised the stakes."
He said he tried to steer them away from using the terms "bias" and "objectivity."
The Inquirer, from its front page to the comics, is an arm of the Democratic Party and the editors want its former readers to disregard bias and objectivity. That paper is even more biased than the very biased New York Times. You'd have to go to CBS and Dan Rather to top it.
I would assume that when a paper hires a Clinton fund-raiser as its managing editor, readers might perceive there is bias.
It appears that the Inquirer's movers and shakers can not even perceive their own bias. This is a sad thing. America needs two strong political parties. The pity is that the Inquirer, and others of its ilk, is doing its part to send the Democratic party into oblivion.
It harshly criticizes and exposes Republican miscreants. The Republicans grin and get rid of the scoundrels. Thus, it helps to keep the Republican Party fairly clean.
Now if it will start taking care of its readers by doing the same thing to Democrat rogues and rascals, it and America will be better off. Stop protecting over-sexed drunks, accused rapists and convicted liars.
Get Doonesbury and Boondocks off the comic pages and onto the editorial page where they belong.
The Inquirer editors, while on the phone with their ex-subscribers ought to ask them what they think about higher taxes, school vouchers and choice, Social Security reform, term limits and how they feel about our young men and women serving in Iraq. Then the editors should follow their suggestions.
That would be a start.
What the liberals do not seem to understand is that no single group controls the news anymore. The liberals have lost their monopoly. They now have to answer to talk radio, cable news. journalists on the Internet, along with a couple of "fair and balanced" television stations and a few newspapers. The silent majority now has a voice and it is being heard loud and clear.
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I won't subscribe to the Morning Call in Allentown either. They're liberals and refused to publish my letters to the editor.
It's pretty funny, them having to beg subscribers to come back. nah, nah, na nah, nah....
After stuffing 21 reasons to elect skerry down the subscribers throat, perhaps these people wised up.
Philly deserves the Inquirer just as they deserve John Street. F'em, and I don't swear!
MoodyBlu
Absolutely wrong. They perceive it very well; they just continue to lie about it. This is a standard liberal / socialist / communist / Marxist technique.
Perhaps the Inquirer should have done some inquiring before publishing those editorials.
I get at least 4 calls a year asking me to take a weeks free deliveries
I always tell them you couldn't pay me to take your left wing rag
You'd think so, but they obviously did not. I still find it hard to believe that they are so callous that they'd hire Anne Gordon, a Clinton fund raiser as their managing editor.
That's like a dog crapping on the rug, not bothering to clean it up and telling his master he would like to talk about it.
Love it.
My only problem now is finding a free copy for bird poo poo paper - it's well suited for that !!
bump for follow up on thrusdays update.
What the liberals do not seem to understand is that no single group controls the news anymore. The liberals have lost their monopoly. They now have to answer to talk radio, cable news. journalists on the Internet, along with a couple of "fair and balanced" television stations and a few newspapers. The silent majority now has a voice and it is being heard loud and clear.
great article; thanks for posting.
G'evening, pretty accurate.
Also kinda chilling in a way.
When the New York Times says you're biased in favor of Dems, there's a problem.
Maybe the Times is just jealous that they haven't been able to keep up with them.
I hadn't actually thought about how their biased has helped us pubbies get rid of trash before it infects the rest....but that's spot on, as we have observed how rotten the Rats have become, all with the complicity of the biased, liberal press.
If they start to report negative things about the Dems, the Dems will lose even more. Damned if you do, damned if you don't.
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