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What the heck is this guy talking about? The media hasn't been out to inform people for well over 50 years!

His commentary plays well in theory, but in practice because our media carries such a leftward tilt, it's helpful for many of them to die to teach them a lesson.

You claim objectivity? Live up to it!

I simply cannot stand these sanctimonious self important POSs acting as if the sky is falling and there isn't a reason for it. Blame technology. Blame Bush. Blame the economy.

How about blaming your own liberal bias?

I do however, find one thing ironic. This comes from the cronkite school of journalism. You know, the same general cronkite that defeated the US military at vietnam.

1 posted on 01/14/2009 2:33:35 PM PST by Halfmanhalfamazing
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The newspapers' CHICKENS! Are coming HOME! to ROOST!!

:-)

2 posted on 01/14/2009 2:37:46 PM PST by Halfmanhalfamazing (You have no chance to survive make your time)
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And it will seriously damage the press’s ability to serve as a bulwark of democracy.”

Aww geeze, just when they were doing such a good job at it.

4 posted on 01/14/2009 2:42:34 PM PST by Tarpon (America's first principles, freedom, liberty, market economy and self-reliance will never fail.)
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5 posted on 01/14/2009 2:43:49 PM PST by HangnJudge
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Hmmm.... seems nobody wants to get their fingers and hands dirty reading obsolete media that constantly pushes the ideology of the Democratic party.
7 posted on 01/14/2009 2:47:43 PM PST by April Lexington (Study the constitution so you know what they are taking away!)
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Each newsroom that goes dark, then, amounts to another school closing.”

Yeah, but think of all the trees that are saved. This is a liberal conundrum.

8 posted on 01/14/2009 2:47:59 PM PST by Zuben Elgenubi
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To: Halfmanhalfamazing
Each newsroom that goes dark, then, amounts to another school closing

Not that that's a BAD thing...

Time to homeschool yourself, folks!

9 posted on 01/14/2009 2:48:15 PM PST by Izzy Dunne (Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
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To: Halfmanhalfamazing
Let me fix this: Each newsroom that goes dark, then, amounts to another school radical madrasa closing.
10 posted on 01/14/2009 2:48:22 PM PST by KarlInOhio (On 9/11 Israel mourned with us while the Palestinians danced in the streets. Who should we support?)
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Let the newpapers die away, they are not telling the truth anyway. I guess they have not figured out that may be one reason people are not buying their stupid newspapers.

Poor Hirschhornr must not have access to a TV, computer, or friends.

I don’t know about most people, but I have not read a newspaper in ?????? maybe 2 years


11 posted on 01/14/2009 2:48:36 PM PST by nbhunt
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To: Halfmanhalfamazing

Great news BUMP!!

I only wish the liberal big city newspapers would hurry up and be completely dead already. I want everybody associated with the Democrat newsrooms to lose their jobs, their homes, and their families. After the damage they have done to this once-proud nation - - most recently spending the past five years exacerbating an economic recession in the hopes that it would benefit their party’s election chances (”The economy, stupid.”) - - those sick scum deserve nothing less.

I only wish it wouldn’t take so long for them to die. They’re worse than Generalissimo Francisco Franco.


13 posted on 01/14/2009 2:55:01 PM PST by Lancey Howard
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To: Halfmanhalfamazing
If the gubmint or the NWO takes over the internet, as has been posted on several FR threads the past few weeks, then yes "free press" is compromised.

Otherwise, the world just moved to an electronic age where leftist printed political agendas became out-house material. They're as ancient as the little record player I played my 45's on as a kid. They can't get over the fact that they're out-dated.

What happened to the people who made records and record players. Did they ever ask for a bailout from the taxpayers because 8-tracks came along? Or maybe they adapted to new technology and new demands.

14 posted on 01/14/2009 2:56:31 PM PST by PistolPaknMama (Al-Queda can recruit on college campuses but the US military can't! --FReeper airborne)
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Newspapers used to send out reporters to get stories. Now they pass on what is on the wires and hire liberal drips to write opinion pieces. The rest of the Omedia is no better. The talking heads get their DNC Faxes and their praise sheets for O.


16 posted on 01/14/2009 3:05:35 PM PST by pallis
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Don’t worry folks, we will be told the NY Times is too big to fail and they will recieve a bail out. Never fear, your government is working hard... FOR YOU!


18 posted on 01/14/2009 3:15:39 PM PST by vpintheak (Like a muddied spring or a polluted well is a righteous man who gives way to the wicked. Prov. 25:26)
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“What we have to keep in mind is that true journalism is the closest thing most adults have to formal continuing education.

Each newsroom that goes dark, then, amounts to another school closing.”

We're all paying the price for one sided biased journalism...

19 posted on 01/14/2009 3:20:00 PM PST by GOPJ ("A consensus of 100 scientists is undone by one fact." - - Einstein (take that Al Gore))
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“What we have to keep in mind is that true journalism is the closest thing most adults have to formal continuing education.

Each newsroom that goes dark, then, amounts to another school closing.”

We're all paying the price for one sided biased journalism... Newspapers don't need fewer journalists, they need more readers. Dump the bias.

20 posted on 01/14/2009 3:20:45 PM PST by GOPJ ("A consensus of 100 scientists is undone by one fact." - - Einstein (take that Al Gore))
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“bulwark of democracy” my a**; they’ve been the bulwark of Eurosocialism, the party elite believing they are the “vanguard of the masses” in the Leninist concept they love so well. It has utterly escaped them that they have no connection with the actual masses and haven’t had for years, like one of those 1930’s communist cells at a leading university with a single member who was their actual “working man.”


21 posted on 01/14/2009 3:25:37 PM PST by AmericanVictory
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“Cronkite School of Journalism”

Is that satire?

That’s like Ted Kennedy school of driving,
or the Abramoff school of ethics.


22 posted on 01/14/2009 4:05:26 PM PST by WOSG (Oppose Big Govt spending - no bailouts, no boondoggles, no earmarks)
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To: Halfmanhalfamazing

You can make comments there.

“Newspapers are dying for two reasons: One, the internet is a better delivery system than the printed page. And second, because today’s product absolutely sucks.”

BEST COMMENT.

No, the media is not a ‘bulwark of democracy’, but rather shills for their favored politicians/point-of-view and attack dogs against those they disfavor. In the past, newspapers were partisan and open about it. Today, the liberal MSM is partisan by dishonest and hypocritical about their own abject bias.

Want to win back half the audience you lost? End the liberal bias.


23 posted on 01/14/2009 4:05:58 PM PST by WOSG (Oppose Big Govt spending - no bailouts, no boondoggles, no earmarks)
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To: Halfmanhalfamazing

Counting the Days baby, Counting the Days!

Pray for W, The Truth and Our Freedom Fighters


25 posted on 01/14/2009 4:48:53 PM PST by bray (Gov Palin isn't ready for the District of Corruption)
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To: Halfmanhalfamazing
From the article: “What we have to keep in mind is that true journalism is the closest thing most adults have to formal continuing education. Each newsroom that goes dark, then, amounts to another school closing.”

What an absolutely fatuous and typically condescending remark from yet another puffed-up hack who thinks "newsrooms" are are essential to human understanding.

Why would anyone wanting to "continue their education" want to waste their time sifting through the tripe that comes out of the vast majority of what are mistakenly referred to as "newsrooms?"
26 posted on 01/14/2009 4:49:06 PM PST by PerConPat (A politician is an animal which can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground.-- Mencken)
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To: Halfmanhalfamazing
The market is responding! To paraphrase Trotsky, the people are voting with their feet!
27 posted on 01/17/2009 8:40:16 AM PST by GAB-1955 (Kicking and Screaming into the Kingdom of Heaven and proud to be a Coast Guard Auxiliarist)
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