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Is Your Newspaper America's Worst?
Powerline Blog ^ | 11/20/06 | John Hinderaker

Posted on 11/20/2006 4:04:53 PM PST by ButThreeLeftsDo

Scott (Johnson) recently suggested that the Minneapolis Star Tribune may be America's worst newspaper. That produced lots of emails from readers who nominated their own newspapers, or others with which they are familiar, for the honor. This gave us the idea for a new poll: What is the worst newspaper in the United States?

Here are the nominees, with commentary by those who nominated them:

The Minneapolis Star Tribune: Nominated by Scott, citing Mark Steyn: “Unreadable sludge.”

The Houston Chronicle: A reader who worked for the Chronicle for “quite a while”: “Its main problem is not even its liberalism, which it suffers from, but its vapidity. On top of that, the editor from Hearst Corp. is trying to teach Houstonians how to be proper liberals. The fact that no one ever hears about the newspaper at America’s fourth largest city should tell you a lot.”

The Olympian (Olympia, Washington): MHJ: “From their editorial about how good it is that the Governor is going to direct the employees of the State Department of Transportation to cooperate with the State Auditor on taxpayer-directed performance audits, to their choice of letters to the editor, the Olympian begs for an editorial staff with common sense and analytical skills.”

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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

The Rochester Democrat & Chronicle......a Gannett owned producer of unreadable sludge


121 posted on 11/20/2006 6:27:02 PM PST by Ouderkirk (America won't win another war until the 1960s flower children are pushing up petunias.)
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To: Excuse_Me

There is a reason why I subscribe to The Washington Times and not The Washington Post.


122 posted on 11/20/2006 6:28:30 PM PST by rabscuttle385 (Sic Semper Tyrannis * Allen for U.S. Senate in '08)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

The NYT's evil twin...The LA Times.


123 posted on 11/20/2006 6:29:08 PM PST by Goldie Lurks (professional moonbat catcher)
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To: got_moab?
Yet somehow The Family Circus continues to survive?

I would rate The Family Circus as Hemingway compared to one of our offerings: "Rose is Rose." But the absolute worst is a one panel comic, "Hazel." It is an abomination. I think it is the comic strip that the TV show may have been based upon, and I don't think the humor or settings have been updated since the TV show aired. You can practically smell the mothballs when you read it.

124 posted on 11/20/2006 6:30:37 PM PST by GraceCoolidge
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

Do you suppose a "Name a good newspaper" thread would get 124 responses?


125 posted on 11/20/2006 6:32:28 PM PST by DManA
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To: cidrasm
Kansas City Red Star

"As colorful as USA Today, As moronic as the New York Times"

126 posted on 11/20/2006 6:32:40 PM PST by x_plus_one (Franklin Graham: "Allah is not the God of Moses. Allah had no son")
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To: DManA
Do you suppose a "Name a good newspaper" thread would get 124 responses?

.....and 1700 views???
127 posted on 11/20/2006 6:34:52 PM PST by ButThreeLeftsDo (Send Lawyers, Guns And Money (Not Necessarily In That Order))
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To: Uriah_lost

Absolutely - the St. Louis Post Disgrace is horrible. I happily tell their salespeople I refuse to read the liberal drivel.


128 posted on 11/20/2006 6:34:57 PM PST by Clintons Are White Trash (Lynn Stewart, Helen Thomas , Molly Ivins, Maureen Dowd - The Axis of Ugly)
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To: knews_hound
I usually go straight to the Workers World website and skip the Bees slower load times for the same info.

I am so enjoying this thread! By the end of your post, I had tears in my eyes from laughing so hard.

129 posted on 11/20/2006 6:35:36 PM PST by GraceCoolidge
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To: ken5050

Add the Tulsa Squirrel to the list.........


130 posted on 11/20/2006 6:35:55 PM PST by Osage Orange (The old/liberal/socialist media is the most ruthless and destructive enemy of this country.)
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To: GraceCoolidge

Don't forget to tip your waiter....


131 posted on 11/20/2006 6:38:03 PM PST by knews_hound (Sarcastically blogging since 2004.)
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To: GraceCoolidge; All

Thanks to all for your participation on this thread. I expected a handful of replies and a couple dozen views. I guess this issue is more important than I imagined.

Thanks to the Powerline Blog for yet another great topic.

And thanks to the Admin Mod for leaving this in News/Activism, even though it belonged in Bloggers/etc. which I realized as soon as I hit the post button.....


132 posted on 11/20/2006 6:41:02 PM PST by ButThreeLeftsDo (Send Lawyers, Guns And Money (Not Necessarily In That Order))
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo; abb

If abb hits his ping list with this , watch it really take off...

Cheers,

knewshound


133 posted on 11/20/2006 6:43:50 PM PST by knews_hound (Sarcastically blogging since 2004.)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

I didn't read through the entire post yet but I'll add the Pittsburgh Post Gazette to the list of others who agree.
They can't even give it away.


134 posted on 11/20/2006 6:45:18 PM PST by Ramcat (Thank You American Veterans)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo
There's always the Slimes, of course, be it the LA variety or the flagship of the mothball fleet, the NY wrapper.

But for sheer ineptitude, the Red Star Tribune DOES rate right up there. Just like Minneapolis is a tawdry imitation of the Big Apple, so the Star-Trib is a shallow epigone of the horrid New York Times. Only it doesn't even do the propaganda well.

And the ink smears all over your butt when you put it to its only valid purpose ...

135 posted on 11/20/2006 6:51:10 PM PST by IronJack (=)
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To: Clintons Are White Trash

If I could just get them to stop littering my front steps with their "free" Journal garbage....and I have tried....a lot!


136 posted on 11/20/2006 6:58:06 PM PST by Uriah_lost (We've got enough youth, how about a "fountain of smart")
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To: SuzyQue
I guess the Austin (un)American Spaceman didn't make the list. It could'a been a contender.

Paper's Endorsement of Bush Causes Outrage

137 posted on 11/20/2006 7:00:57 PM PST by Doe Eyes
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To: Fred Hayek

the Strib is also horrendous, and they haven't been capitalizing "God" for a couple of years at least (saw it back home for a visit).


138 posted on 11/20/2006 7:06:02 PM PST by teawithmisswilliams (Basta, already!)
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To: Unicorn

"Allmost forgot that other FL.jewel-the st. pete times."

We gave up the St.Pete Pravda several years ago, and went to the Tampa Tribune which became too hard to take also! Quit it too!



139 posted on 11/20/2006 7:08:44 PM PST by seekthetruth
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To: teawithmisswilliams; All

OT: BREAKING.......http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1741897/posts


140 posted on 11/20/2006 7:09:04 PM PST by ButThreeLeftsDo (Send Lawyers, Guns And Money (Not Necessarily In That Order))
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