To Cicero:
Bill O’Reilly is constantly exposing the New York Slimes, and other far left newspaper (collectively — I guess that would be all the print media) On his program, almost daily, he will tell you what’s happening on the front page, the editorial page, and the book reviews (most books written by conservatives, even though they are top ten bestsellers, are never reviewed), and how all of the news of the day is reported across the country. He’s doing a GREAT job of continually pointing out how dishonest the print media is in its reportage, and connecting it to the steadily dropping incomes of the newspaper industry. He empahsizes the fact that people are dropping subscriptions, because they can’t trust newspapers to be honest about the news.
I doubt that he got the idea from the Free Republic. I have no doubt that as soon as this story broke, he was just waiting to see how the NYT would handle it.
I didn’t intend to criticize O’Reilly. Freepers complain about him, and sometimes he refuses to touch a story that he should, like the Swiftboat business or (right now) the illegal immigrant bill.
But if he doesn’t do everything we might like, he does do a lot, and for that we should be grateful.
The NY Times has a long, long reputation as THE paper of record, and it still is treated that way, in spite of its sins and failures. Whenever they run a story or a propaganda piece, the MSM still wags its tail and follows along. Anything that can be done to finally put a nail in that coffin is most welcome.