Posted on 11/16/2008 4:23:29 AM PST by Nick Thimmesch
Thousands of conservatives and even some moderates have complained during my more than three-year term that The Post is too liberal; many have stopped subscribing, including more than 900 in the past four weeks.
It pains me to see lost subscribers and revenue, especially when newspapers are shrinking. Conservative complaints can be wrong: The mainstream media were not to blame for John McCain's loss; Barack Obama's more effective campaign and the financial crisis were.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
"The opinion pages have strong conservative voices; the editorial board includes centrists and conservatives; and there were editorials critical of Obama. Yet opinion was still weighted toward Obama. It's not hard to see why conservatives feel disrespected.
Are there ways to tackle this? More conservatives in newsrooms and rigorous editing would be two. The first is not easy: Editors hire not on the basis of beliefs but on talent in reporting, photography and editing, and hiring is at a standstill because of the economy. But newspapers have hired more minorities and women, so it can be done."
Oh, great: now the USA needs an affirmative action like effort just to let "conservatives" into America's MSM.
Listen: conservatives don't expect nor even want to be included in your mess. We read and/or view the MSM just to keep track of our enemies.
God Bless what is bound to be years of resistance by the true conservative movement: we are as foreign to liberals as the current crop of "immigrants" they embrace.
Hahahahaha, may it continue.
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Choke on it Deb.
There is no "bias perception" to remedy. There is plenty of bias to remedy.
Poor darlings.
Your jobs are at risk because we won’t buy your damn papers anymore.
In what fantasy world does anyone at that paper think they have the influence to change our perception of who they are? tell you waht WAPO. Go ask George Allen if he thinks you are a without prejudice.
The title of her article is funny; she just doesn’t get it. It’s not perception, but reality....and unless/until they own up to that fact, there will never be a remedy.
News of the dying Washington Post and coffee, a great start to the day.
Acne crippled adolescents are know-it-alls too.
we dropped our subscription a couple years back over the AbuGahrib coverage....we mainly subscribed for the sports page anyway....the Post was origionally a pro-Joe Stalin paper back in the 1930s...they haven’t changed that much over the years...since Watergate their editorial policy has been that America is evil/the Pentagon is evil/the CIA is evil/the troops are evil/NSA is evil/the FBI is evil ect.....who wants to pay money to read that stuff every day?
Deb would have seen the truth if she could have removed her face from barry’s lap for a few minutes... before the election.
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I wonder if the writer realizes he began with a sophistry. No serious person thinks the MSM were ENTIRELY to blame for McCain's defeat. However they certainly CONTRIBUTED to it.
It's the old straw man once again. And they wonder why we don't trust them either to report or to analyze the news.
The mainstream media were not to blame for John McCain’s loss;
Totally and uniquely responsible? No.
In bed with the Zero’s campaign with their legs waving in the air? Hail yeah.
So, if its only a perception, why have a remedy?
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LOL
I don’t see how she squares the notion that liberal journalists want to change the world (which she admits in the column) with the notion that liberal journalists want to be objective and unbiased (which she claims in the column). The two are fundamentally at odds and can’t be reconciled. This is the basic disconnect in journalism right now and no amount of self-policing by Obama-voting ombudspeople or conservative affirmative action hires or prosecutorial editing will change it.
Every once in a while there’s a little silver lining in the madness.
Excellent observation!
It greatly saddens me to observe the inability to reason demonstrated by our MSM pundits.
They have never had classes in which they were really challenged to think. They’ve never had weeks of trying to understand complex relationships.
As a result, they really believe that their one-level elementary school thinking actually maps to reality.
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