Who killed the newspaper?

The Economist ^ | Aug 24th 2006 | Not Named

[Grampa Dave]

Who killed the Newspapers?

The elite mediot maggot infected owners of ABCNNBCBS and publishers of the major dinosaur fishwraps are the modern day, Norman Bates. They are trying to keep the corpses alive by refusing to admit that they are dead and to bury them.

Buy my Dinosaur Fishwrap stock, NYT. The old gray lady is just fine!

[pissant]

Maybe we need to start the Freeper Awards, much more meaningful and pro-american than the Nobel folks.

[pissant]

LOL. Norman is a regular guy compared the the sick bastards in the media.

[Grampa Dave]

Norman is the perfect poster girly boy for the maggots who control the media.

[pissant]

"my mother makes the best brisket"

[USFRIENDINVICTORIA]

ROTFLMAO! The "old grey lady" indeed.

[denydenydeny]

I love the newspaper, I just hate when it's used to indoctrinate me into a belief system that I despise.

I still plunk down sixty cents every day for a New York Post. I just refuse to patronize leftist newspapers.

[Milhous]

Mercy! The Old Grey Hag's corpse keeps stinking up the whole board. Somebody really ought to call in the Circ Puffing Perfume Clown Posse to do something about that evil stench wafting up from their cellar.

A decade later, two reporters from the Washington Post wrote a series of articles that brought down President Nixon and the status of print journalism soared.

Nixon's ghost laughs at you fools.

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Proud member of the Dinosaur Media DeathWatch™ Crew of the FReeping Parasitic Information Gatherers Brigade.

[toddlintown]

The day the Chicago American went from 7 cents to a dime, I knew it was over.

[Freedom4US]

A decade later, two reporters from the Washington Post wrote a series of articles that brought down President Nixon and the status of print journalism soared.

Amongst print journalists, anyway. There's your answer.

[truth_seeker]

"The NY Times went over to the dark side around 1994, during Clinton's first term."

LA Times changed fairly quickly for the worse, in the 90s.

Once a centrist paper, it is now usually left. So I wrote my complaint and cencelled.

They contacted me to continue, but I said no thanks. Can't pay you for your editorials and edi-news.

My local paper is the venerable OC Register. Once Conservative, now libertarian. Against fighting muslims, and for legal drugs.

They use NYT edi-news feeds.

I wrote them to complain, but they didn't answer. Soon I will likely cancel them, too.

That will be two paper newspapers I stop paying for.

[potlatch]

[Smartass]

Thanks for the Ping Potlatch...

 

[potlatch]

You are quite welcome Smartass, just reposting the same 'ol, same 'ol!!

[TASMANIANRED]

Let em crumble.

[Grampa Dave]

Great Job! You are getting scary with these great do overs.

[Grampa Dave]

Whenever I read about the old Gray Lady, I think of Psycho.

Now thanks to the creative people of FR, I can express that feeling.

[Grampa Dave]

I often wonder if we had the internet and something like Free Republic if Nixon might have stayed on as president.

[potlatch]

LOL, he is scary looking!

Hope you saw this one;
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1688513/posts?page=31#31

[Milhous]

I often wonder if we had the internet and something like Free Republic if Nixon might have stayed on as president.

Common Tator offers up some fairly good insights at his website. McCain's own behavior suggests that regardless of any Inet RINO Howard Baker would still knife Nixon in the back to try to suck up to journalists^TM for MSM accolade.

Watergate lessons. It took millions to get a Bakers Dozen votes.

. . .

The lesson of Watergate is also clear. It was not the Republican Minority leader Howard Baker who was rewarded for helping take down Richard Nixon. It was Nixon's supporters like Reagan that inherited the party. Baker holds the record of spending the most dollars per vote in a New Hampshire primary. Bakers media fame translated into a primary backlash against Howard Baker. That lesson is not lost on today's Republican leadership. That lesson was not lost on Democrats. Guess why they stood by Clinton? No one wanted to be Clinton's Howard Baker. It would have been a political loser.

Few Republicans and none of the leadership will do what Howard Baker did. It was a massive personal political failure.

But my main point is there are many examples of the media's biased reporting convincing the true believers and then using polling to try to convince others. Using failed strategies is something the media does over and over. They see the strategy like they see socialism. It will work the next time if they just do it right next time. Repeated failure rarely teaches the media a lesson.

What does work to take out a president? It is for a president's own party leaders to turn on him. That takes the president down. We also know that it takes the parties leaders down as well. For some strange reason, post Watergate. leaders of both parties are reluctant to follow Howard Bakers example.