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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http://www.powerlineblog.com/powerlinenews/index.php
Right side, down a ways.......
The Sacramanto Bleat was not an option and I have little opinion on the rest.
I thought it strange that the NYT was not listed.
As the flagship for dead tree media, its absence was notable I thought.
Cheers,
knewshound
I think the NY Times & Washington Post can be taken out of the equation. If you detest them (as most of us do) it's because they have obviously nailed their colors to the masthead and do the bidding of the DNC on a daily basis. If you like them, it's for the same reason - they are partisan and make no bones about it.
The concentration, then, should be on the local papers who claim to be fair, unbiased, watchdogs, hold a special place in society (puke) etc. etc. etc.
Some members of this infamous group include:
DAYTON DAILY NEWS - the original DDN was an afternoon, semi-responsible publication. After it absorbed the morning Journal Herald it took on all the beardy (male and female alike) foam-at-the-mouth lefties. You know the drill: government good, taxes even better, any sort of personal freedom or wealth is evil incarnate. Editorial writer Martin Gottlieb could be Karl Marx's twin brother in appearance and thought process.
Dayton has been on an ever-increasing decline for decades and is a prime example of a "donut city" where growth and livable places surround an empty hull of a downtown. A nonstop parade of clowns through City Hall and sent to Columbus/Washington has only accelerated the process. No joke - some of these people have trouble putting two coherent sentences together. One mayor got into a fistfight while in office. Businesses can't leave town quick enough due in large part to the lawless streets - their people can't even commute safely! Still, the DDN thinks everything will get better if those stupid citizens would stop exercising economic freedom and free will by moving to where the jobs, good housing and safe neighborhoods are.
Dayton thrived at one point - WPAFB, GM, NCR, Mead. Most are gone, the rest will follow. Still, the DDN thinks unions collectively hung the moon and that any sort of law enforcement is police brutality and harassment. Anyone for a leisurely stroll down CJ McLin Blvd?
PS - They moved their printing plant south of Dayton/Montgomery County! Hypocrisy, thy name is DDN.
PLAIN DEALER (Cleveland) - Tired of those 'hungry, poor and homeless' stories at Thanksgiving and Christmas in your local rag? If you hunger for more (pun intended) then the PD is your year-round chronicle of misery. The editorial board features more members of the Communist Party than the Soviet Politburo in its prime. Columbus and Washington correspondents turn in DNC talking points week after week.
CHARLESTON DAILY MAIL & GAZETTE - 2 'separate' papers that publish jointly on Sundays. It really doesn't matter - the lefty slant is everywhere. Government is the biggest business in Charleston and anything that sends more dollars down the 'development' sinkhole is a good thing.
I visited in October 2002 when the Sun was trying ANYTHING to get Kafleen Kennedy Townsend elected. It was propaganda that would have made Goebbels proud.
As someone mentioned earlier, the NYT is a given. This is a race for second place......
A race for second place.
There is a joke in there somewhere...
Yeah, what's up with that? The paper is in love with the Texas Longhorns even though Texas A&M is the 7th largest university in the country and much closer to Houston than Austin is.
It couldn't be the fact that A&M is considered conservative, could it?
C'mon. The SF Chronicle takes this race like Secretariat in the 73 Belmont Stakes.
Maybe it's about expectations. We all know the SF Chronicle is the pits. What would you expect from that city?
The Houston Chronicle is in Texas, for pete's sake. The county in which Houston primariliy lies, votes Republican. Texas as a whole, surely does.
I'd dare say that most of the Houston Chronicle subscribers are Republican.
Yet they diss their own subscribers, push their own liberal agenda, and borrow heavily from the LA Times for their content on a daily basis.
It's a lazy, stupid, and ridiculously liberal newspaper in the heart of the most conservative part of the country. Surely that gets some extra credit for being horrible!
I agree and I believe the HC is also a Hearst paper. When I worked for the SF Chronicle in 2002 and they realized that they had lost $20 Million for the fiscal year ,their response was to eliminate herbal teabags from the break areas which probably saved them about 1000 bucks. They would never,ever consider rethinking editorial positions. Their sense of self-importance knows no bounds.
herbal teabags...oh my...
Nice use of contrasts.
Well I'm sure there are plenty of t-sip t-shirt fans in H-town.
There are, and the paper should cover them. They do treat A&M as if they're out of state, though.
Nice feature article, for example in today's sports section about the upcoming game. It's totally from the UT perspective.
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/sports/4350421.html
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