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The newspapers of this country are a disgrace.
I wonder how much food you can buy at the supermarket with a Pullitzer Prize?
They deserve everything which happens to them because of their terribly bad judgement. May there be no rest, only torment, the same torment which they thrust upon a public for their lying, deceptive, unfair, republican, conservative hating bias!
Motorhead said it best “Now I’m the one Dancing On Your Grave”.
These big newspapers would rather get Obama elected than save their own hide. How shortsighted is that?
These big newspapers would rather get Obama elected than save their own hide. How shortsighted is that?
They like the word “popular.”
A common theme is denial.....not our fault.
outstanding...hopefully they will go out of business and people will be forced to read and research for themselves for once...this is good thing - no more spoon feeding the public...
And yet, talk radio is doing just fine.
I remember reading a Grishman novel a few years ago where the central character ran a small town weekly newspaper. He made plenty of money because he knew what his readers wanted: he covered all the local goings-on and made sure lots of people got their names in the paper. In the small town where we previously lived, EVERYONE read the paper, and the first page we all turned to was the Police Blotter.
My point is that the NYT et. al., have lost all notion of how to sell newspapers. The average reading American doesn’t want to pay to be lectured by a bunch of prissy liberals.
I guarantee that they are setting the stage for a government bailout.
However, in this instance, I believe that government involvement is a violation of the 1st amendment.
My logic is as follows:
***Congress shall make no law ...abridging the freedom ...of the press; ****
1. By assisting media companies, Congress is ENABLING a particular press versus other more viable competitors. Therefore, they are injuring (abridging) those forms of press that are successful.
2. By underwriting media companies, Congress is siding with that message just as much as they would be siding with a bible company that would be in hard fiscal times.
I was a long-time Chicago Tribune reader, and I recently cancelled my subscription. The paper had become completely unreadable. The paper had a change of strategy and decided to go after the more “hip” younger urban reader. They completely changed the format to where it doesn’t look anything like the old Trib. There was a change in the editorial board, and the paper went from a conservative paper to an everyday Obama love fest. There is only one reporter, John Kass, who ever questioned anything about Obama’s past, but the rest of the paper was pro-Obama. For the first time in recent history, they did not endorse the conservative candidate. Their reporting of world news is now a little map of the world with one-word sentences in boxes that point to the particular country. In the front section, they usually have one article (usually about Obama) and the rest is advertising. Bottom line: the paper sucks.
One more complaint: their Soduku puzzles are usually unsolvable by logic and requires simple guessing. It is irritating to spend time looking for the logical conclusion when there isn’t one.
“US media in deep financial crisis (Dinosaur Media DeathWatch™)”
Great Noose!
I think this phrase has jumped the shark. (then again, "Jump the Shark" as a phrase has retrograded and has now jumped the shark.
Bull! The factors weren't beyond their control.
They could have been blowing the whistle years ago about the mortgage mess being caused by members of Congress, the Senate, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and the greedy connivers on Wall Street who were packaging crap mortgages disguised as gold. But instead of telling the truth, they chose to look the other way and support their good friends who were scamming the country into bankruptcy.
Now they are complaining because their readership and viewing audiences have smelled a rat and have decided they aren't worth paying attention to and have abandoned them.
They deserve to die. It serves them right. They left honest journalism and reporting behind years ago. They propped up these thieves for years. They are accessories to these crimes - before, during, and after the fact!
Unfortunately, they'll probably get a huge taxpayer bailout as their friends will soon rule the country and themselves can't survive without the help from these same propaganda organs.
Its the consequences of trying to manipulate and censor the news, most pointedly the thereof lack of coverage of the ineligibility of Barack Hussein Obama.
If they want to get revenue back in a hurry especially now all they need to do is drop the Obama lock on news.
Maybe nobody has put two and two together and thought that maybe several million advertisers are upset at the media and MSM and are boycotting them.
You were not omnipotent MSM, America owns you.
Is it wrong to be happy about this?