If you're think of "Boondocks", that's on hiatus. I guess the author made enough to quit drawing his hate.
However, the Houston Chronicle has made sure that it's replaced on the hispanic side with this kind of humor:
November 20, 2006
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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The Roanoke Times. The liberalism of its editorial page takes a backseat to none. This skimpy paper is composed of articles that are mostly warmed over reprints from UPI, Al-AP, and Al-Reuters. A real Mickey Mouse effort.
The Bangor Daily used to be fairly good, BUT, that was a long long time ago.
It is important for conservatives to face these issues and face them often. Think of the papers as providing a liberal stew that we don't like but are powerless to take away from them. One strategy is to lean over and spit in their stew. They will say it looks the same and smells the same but it will not taste the same.
These newspapers are business operations and unhappy, critical people neither advertise nor buy them if they can avoid it. If nothing else, sooner or later the bottom line will be influenced by a line by line criticism of their liberal dogma. More immediately it is the rare person who can hear consistent criticism without changing behavior. The "spit in the stew effect."
You have my vote on that one. The Houston Chronicle is biased, left leaning and only prints what it wants to. A true newspaper prints the News. The Houston Chronicle does not, they try to make the news.
Pure garbage.
Ping to Manchester Union Leader, Boston Herald, and NY Sun.
The NY Post sometimes has some good op-ed pieces, too. Plus, the headlines are funny.
If you're think of "Boondocks", that's on hiatus. I guess the author made enough to quit drawing his hate.
However, the Houston Chronicle has made sure that it's replaced on the hispanic side with this kind of humor:
I'll second that. Bring back the Times.
For me, political slant comes after those three.
I really dislike looking at a page of a newspaper that I bought that has only a thin trail of content in the left column, and with the remaining 90% of the page is devoted to advertising.
Likewise, I don't want to search through the whole newspaper to find two or perhaps three pieces that were actually written by the newspaper's staff. If I wanted to read just wire service copy, I myself wouldn't buy a local newspaper.
My local paper (Providence Journal) does that too.
The Cleveland Plain Dealer comes to mind. Don't know if it's the worst, but it's certainly a leftist rag.
Boondocks, that's it. We don't have the hispanic cartoon yet.
Dilbert is a far superior cartoon.
The the Pulliam family owners (relatives of Dan Quayle) sold it to Gannett.
Since then, it has deteriorated both in quality and content. I cancelled my subscription when they posted a front-page article (complete with photos of each of the justices) saying that the 2000 eection decision was 5-4. It totally left out the 7-2 decision. When I called about it and spoke to the managing editor, the excuse was that the editor on duty didn't get the full story from the wire services until after the deadline. Since I, as an average housewife, knew the decision before the deadline, I told the guy that I knew he was lying, and I cancelled.
The paper since then has made a policy of propping up the democrat mayor with fluff stories, attacking the Republican governor at every opportunity, and undermining the traditional social structure and religious fabric of our city.
Examples:
They quit running the Easter Story and the Christmas Story on the front page, something they had done for over 75 years.
The only Jewish stories are about cooking. Religious observance is invisible.
Mother's Day? Run a feature story about two lesbians who have a child conceived by artificial insemnation.
Father's Day? Run a story about two gay men raising a boy.
Memorial Day? Run a story about disgruntled Veterans.
Veterans Day? Run a story about disgruntled veterans.
Fourth of July? Run a story about Jefferson's mistress.
Thanksgiving? Run a story about how there are so many hungry people in the city.
See how this goes? Anything that brings joy, positive thoughts, or patriotic feeling is countered with a "life sucks" story. Very demoralizing, and they can't understand why their subscription numbers are dropping.
I will bet cash money that the subscriptions would have stayed on track if Gannett hadn't bought the paper.
My grandad was a pressman for that paper for 50 years, and my sister and brother both worked for it several years ago. Heck, I even was a teen correspondent for their now-defunct high school edition. I take this personally, you see.
It's a real disgrace, and a detriment to our city.
There's a lot of truth to that!
The little paper I take probably isn't the worst in the nation, but it's right up there. They carry molly ivens and several other commie columnists, have a couple of far-left local college profs and some retired librarian (who considers himself a folksy wit because he refers to President Bush as "Flight Suit Pinnochio")for local color (one wrote about the joys af anarchy), and the editor has called for a "revolution" against Republicans. And this is in western Kansas. I mainly take it for the TV schedule and the Sunday funnies.
New York Times?
Dilbert is excellent as is Get Fuzzy and Pearls Before Swine.
Now, Doonesbury is just plain shit.
I don't even understand that comic. Dog Gone. I looked at it for a while, but it made no sense to me. Plus the drawing is abysmal.
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