Posted on 03/29/2009 6:44:08 AM PDT by nuconvert
The Miami Herald finally has added not one, but two, conservative columnists, and in the second month of the change I judge it a resounding success.
This doesn't mean that I agree with Jackie Bueno Sousa and Glenn Garvin, but that they have brought interesting, lively points of view that represent the sensibilities of large parts of South Florida's readership -- and challenge the rest.
''A true conservative is not afraid of the reaction to the truth,'' wrote reader Jaime Basagoitia in welcoming them.
But no opinion would be appropriate without an opposing one. Reader Scott J. Siegel wrote, in the case of Sousa: ``From the looks of your first column, you're a stereotypical conservative, led by self-interest instead of truth; hypocritical and dogmatically stubborn, seeing the world through a very narrow lens.''
American democracy in action -- I love the debate.
The two new columns bring some political balance to the paper's local opinion writers. Think Leonard Pitts, Carl Hiaasen, Fred Grimm. To be fair, all of the paper's columnists, those three included, are independent-minded, strive to be fair and can surprise you on any given issue. Think Andres Oppenheimer, Myriam Marquez and, of course, Dave Barry. How do you classify them?
That is how it should be. In an era in which the media -- the Web, radio, television and print -- are fragmenting and becoming ever more extremist in appealing to ever finer ideological slices of the audience, most of us in the middle are left out. We're a little to the right on this issue, a little to the left on that one. Today. Tomorrow, we might flip.
(Excerpt) Read more at miamiherald.com ...
Finally, one newspaper that may actually stay in business!
Bravo, Miami Herald!
Now all they have to do is take the AP information that they purchase and print it in a fair and balanced manner.
And that would be the new business model.
too late chumps. sink.
Now that they have been listed as one of the papers most likely to go out of business they get a couple of conservative columnists. I hope it is to late.
Someone tell the Houston Chronicle this might help them also. They laid off reporters, feature writers, sports writers, press room employees last week
BUT did not touch the real problem......... their editorial board.
Wow! Tell that to your Republican congressman!
It’s not the columnists. It’s the journalists who work there and most importantly, the editorial board .
If you’re pacified by their hiring of two columnists, they’ve won.
“2” little...”2” late...
Someone finally realized that it is Republicans that spend money supporting local newspapers, and that libs only use them for propaganda. It all comes down to MONEY! They know to stay alive, they must appeal to readers with content and not propaganda.
The herald was on a one way trip to the dumpster when I quit in 91,give it a little more time it’s almost there.
“Someone finally realized that it is Republicans that spend money supporting local newspapers, and that libs only use them for propaganda.”
That is very true. The papers are largely kept alive by people who hate their guts. why do so many republicans continue to support them? Upscale libs’ like they have in San Fran, Boston,Seattle and other places buy online and do not support their advertisers. The young who are mainly lib don’t read papers. minorities are not big readers of paper especially if their primary language is not English. And any way they lack the buying power to help advertisers justify their expenditures. Dem’s are also more likely to be single and stretched further in ti her bill payment. Re pub’s are more likely to be married and have two adult readers in the family and more income. We keep them in business! Why?
Too late - will not revive newspaper circulation
It is amazing how liberals claim to love diversity of viewpoints, but never allow conservatives to speak. Liberals think diversity means left and far-left.
too late chumps. sink.
Agreed !!!!
I have thought for several weeks we would start seeing a change in these dyeing media turning to the right in order to say afloat????
I hope CNN never makes a come back, but I will waver?/ soon they will make these changes?
(Cancelthebee.blogspot.com) Pipeline from Havana: more Cuban government propaganda makes its way to the Miami Herald's web site
Yesterday I told you the Miami Herald had published a “news item” taken word for word from ACN, one of the Cuban government's “official” news agencies.
Henry Gomez has done some digging and found more. Check out these gems from ACN posted on the Miami Herald's web site:
Tobacco Harvest in Pinar del Rio in Final Stage
Fidel Castro: I was right about baseball tourney
Fidel Castro writes about Cuban baseball team
Remains of the Yucatan meteorite found in Cuba
Safer houses for hurricane victims in Cuba
The Arab Union of Cuba to celebrate its 30th anniversary
There's your “Truth to Power” people at McClatchy, publishing propaganda straight from the communist government of Cuba. Great work!
UPDATE: The Herald has deleted the ACN articles from its web site.
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It’s been years now but once in a while I will still see a bumber sticker “You No Creo El Herald”. (I don’t belive El Herald) Years ago they angered the Cuban community (like many other times) and a backlash against the paper began. I worked for them after hurricane Andrew placing ads in their classifieds.
No, no, no.
From McClatchy Watch the Miami Herald has been intentionally cut and pasting Cuban Propaganda for weeks now.
Only when they got caught have they been deleting all signs of their traitorous acts.
They have not changed their spots one bit. This is a smokescreen, like the SF chronicle having a conservative writer. These guys are the worst of the worst
New slogan: "All the News Unitarians Want to Read + Two New Writers for the other 99% of the Population".
(that said, I like it.)
"led by self-interest instead of truth"
Oh' very impressive strawman: The hypocritical concept that only liberals are altruistic and conservatives are mean spirited and uncaring.
That's the problem with moonbats; Altruism is not a truth, it's a philosophy of life, one which is very important, but does not fall into the classification of truth.
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