The gloating here on FR is disgusting.
I thought we celebrate the Bill of Rights — right to bear arms and all that?
A free press is in the Bill of Rights, too, folks. The Founders recognized and protected its worth. With the direction this government is headed now, you may find out the hard way how much you need it.
Newspapers are a victim of the same principle that reduced the demand for carbon paper and saddlery. Don’t pat yourselves on the back thinking that right-wingers put newspapers out of business.
Every time a print publication closes its doors, we lose an outlet to criticize and keep government in check. They did it (to howls of dismay from the left) to Bill & Monica, and those that remain will hound the big O.
Sad day for Colorado. Let’s hope the Chicago presses keep running, because we need them.
We sure don’t need a gang of “free press” that is all in lock step with each other and only with one political party. NOT a sad day for anyone.
I thought we celebrate the Bill of Rights — right to bear arms and all that?
The Rocky has been collectivist fish-wrap for over twent-five years.You confuse a free press with newspapers.
However, those filthy rags, and their owners and editors have only two things in mind;Elect a democrat at all costs, on all ballots, and turn this country into a socialist utopia. News be damned, truth be damned, vilify and obfuscate, sort opinions from news, and flush actual news or slant it in their favor. Screw them, and their ilk.
/jaw drop
/boggle
What reality do you exist in?
It’s hard for me to comprehend the effort it must take to have remained completely blind and deaf to the world around you.
I think you miss the problem completely. We also have free choice to read what want and spend our money as we see fit. It has nothing to do with the Free press. They are free to continue printing something nobody wants.
Something else will rise from the ashes, most likely on the Internet. We do not need "gatekeepers" of information, especially when those self-proclaimed "gatekeepers" can't be trusted to do the right (or American) thing. And as far as the Bill of Rights is concerned, the media only cares about this document when it suits their needs. They'll do their jobs in hyper-drive when a Republican admin is in office or the GOP controls Congress. But when the Dems are in charge, forget about it. They happily sit by and watch the country circle the bowl, because they agree with the steps being taken to "fix" the problems. Sorry, no sympathy here.
Stuff and nonsense. The gloating is not about the death of an organ of free speech as others have commented, any more than it would be if we were gladdened that a person who spoke twisted truths was heard no more. We upheld their right to be heard by not firebombing their offices and by maintaining the system of law that would punish such actions. No further support is owed to a particular speaker.
Put another way, you confuse the Bill of Rights with a license to lie, distort and mislead, free from criticism and free from the forces of the market place of ideas (and technology).
we need free presses...true
but we don’t have that anymore, nearly all of them are collaborators
You seem to be missing something. The point of all the gloating is not that we are losing our first amendment, but rather that the liberal main stream media LIBERAL MSM is losing SOME influence. Every little bit helps.
The fact that the liberal press has and continues to greatly influence public opinion toward liberalism, and away from conservative principles, is not at all a loss to conservativsm.
We still have a voice, at least for now, but it sure as heck is not promoted by any newspaper that is run by liberals.
You've got a great point, but I'll bet you're taking a drubbing here Jed!
True, all the MSM is lefties, true all they're interested in doing is electing Democrats.
However, but all us NRA'ers are righties, and all we're interested in is electing, well, conservatives (not RINOs.)
When it gets to the point that we want the Press to go out of business because they want us to lose our guns, then the "Bill of Rights" has really lost its meaning. The point of the Constitution was as a pact that we'd defend each other's rights to say/do something we disagreed with (we'd defend their right to be anti-gun, and they'd defend our right to be anti-communist.) Turned out to be a suicide pact after all.
I smile a bit everytime a Deadtree media source goes out of business. Not because I want to see Free Speech die or people put out of work instead I smile because I know market forces are forcing out wasteful enterprises.
Dead Tree Media is slow and mostly stale by the time it hits the streets, not to mention the clossal waste of time , money and energy cutting and transporting dead tress around to make waste that ends up in a landfill.
Deadtree media will go the way of the buggy whip. Its not needed anymore with the internet and 3G communications filling the bill.
THE FOUNDERS WERE A BUNCH OF SLAVE OWNERS.
Do I believe that? No, but that's what you would probably read in most newspapers nowadays.
The liberal media doesn't want to report news. They want to push an agenda. Most see themseleves as the next Woodward and Bernstein wanting to "change the world."
It's this type of ilk that put Democrats into power and demonized Sarah Palin.
They will never change. They will only change via bankruptcy.
You confound the right to a “free press” with the existence of those who happen to own a press.
The newspaper industry will be better off if the current papers fail and go under. Others news organizations will arise in their place. Everyone said that there was no room for new competition in the markets where Murdoch has shoved his way in - and yet he is on a more stable financial base than most all his competitors.
The current newspaper industry is every bit as subsidized and coddled as many other industries in this country, and they have been allowed to hide from the free market for decades. They have hidden behind “operating agreements,” bifurcated classes of stock to protect minority ownership of founding families, etc. Well, they’ve done themselves in over the years by alienating their advertisers (with lies about circulation) and their readers (by offending their common sense), all the while thinking that they were never going to he held to account by the forces of Adam Smith’s “invisible hand.”
Well, they guessed wrong. Too bad, so sad, boo-freakin’-hoo.
The market abhors a vacuum, and information wants to be free. Other information outlets and businesses will arise in the vacancies left by newspapers.
I think that newspapers or a victim of the other sources of news than the “right wingers”. The product life cycle is coming to the end. Newspapers will only survive in electronic format, just like everything else. If you don’t believe me, then go out a buy a hula hoop.
I never liked the weird book like format, but that’s just me.
In case you haven’t been paying attention, the press isn’t doing much in the way of examining bigger Leftist gov’t, and hasn’t for quite some time.
It’s not a free press. They’re too cowardly, pompous, and self-absorbed to tell the truth.
"Freedom of the press" is a quaint figure of speech. What matters is freedom of expression, no matter what the channel.
Every time a print publication closes its doors, we lose an outlet to criticize and keep government in check.
The print (and old media in general) are infested with libtards. They are cheerleaders for government. Their financial failure is to be welcomed. It is simply proof they don't matter.
Sad day for Colorado. Let’s hope the Chicago presses keep running, because we need them.
To hell with Chicago!
It does fall under the category of the ancient Chinese proverb “Be careful what you wish for, you just might get it.”
You are speaking as if you are a journalist. Honorable profession if you are fair and balanced. You know the truth.
You can’t blame conservatives for their Schadenfreude. They conspired against us to push their liberal agenda from the editorial section onto the front page and the headlines. They gleefully advocated taking our money and freedom.
You will excuse us as we laugh our asses off and cheer their demise. I’m not proud of myself. Schadenfreude is not healthy.
But I’m human.