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Clown senator from Maryland.

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[SamKeck]

None of this bodes well for our democracy.

Neither did it bode well for our republic when the print media became a wholly owned propaganda agency of the DNC.

American print media is dying because it deserves to.

[BenLurkin]

NYT killed story to protect Obama

http://www.poligazette.com/2009/03/31/report-nyt-killed-story-to-protect-obama/

[ConorMacNessa]

My uncle always used to refer to the Washington Post as the morning Pravda. He was right, of course.

[astyanax]

"Our country depends on an open and free press to monitor what happens..."
Open and free.
I think information should be "open and free."
What does that have to do with newspapers?

[fortunate sun]

What free press? The New York TASS is going through cash like sh*t through a goose. TaTa Pinchy!

[Leftism is Mentally Deranged]

The only free press is the alternative, conservative media. The mainstream media, including the Wash Post, are useless tools of the marxist establishment.

[tentmaker]

The death of the highly biased main stream press is the ONLY HOPE for our liberty and freedom.

[central_va]

Good Lord, these dang newspapers won’t die already! They keep springing up like a zombie in a cheap Hollyweird chiller movie.

[MinuteGal]

The now dead-in-the-waters-of-Lake-Michigan-fish-wrap, the Chicago Sun-Times, ran an editorial some years ago that it had decided to publish henceforth as a "liberal newspaper".

Talk about all-time bad decisions.

The City of Big Shoulders shrugged.

The Sun-Times will soon be gone in the Windy.

And frankly, my dear, who gives a damn?

Leni

[Tribune7]

None of this bodes well for our democracy coastal liberal establishment.

[Brett66]

How can we forget the role newspapers played in uncovering the Watergate and Enron scandals or the AIG bonus debacle? covering for Obama?

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

Our country depends on an open and free press

. . . and the Democratic Party depends on aligning itself with the natural propaganda wind which occurs when the "open and free press" is actually an oligopoly of the newswires.

[Oldpuppymax]

Isn’t this absolutely astounding! The serially biased MSM cheerleads for an ignorant, incompetent, thoroughly unqualified empty suit, covers up for his every crime and ignoble act and then whines that the freedom of the press—the very survival of democracy— is at stake because people will no longer pay for their distortions, lies and fabrications. Only the left has such an utter lack of shame.

[FLCowboy,]

General Motors is being faulted for having poor management, and for that management for making poor business decisions. Newspaper management gets a free ride, because, they write the stories.

Seems to me the news gap will be filled regardless of who provides it.

[Birch T. Barlow]

Our country depends on an open and free press to monitor what happens in our communities so that Americans can make sound judgments about their lives and leaders.

Indeed. The press in whatever form needs to be unbiased arbitors of the truth and pursue it regardless of political leanings. The editorial boards across America that endorsed Barack Obama and failed to investigate him with the same tenacity they did McCain and Palin aren't "open and free press" as Jefferson would have envisioned.

[evad]

Clown senator from Maryland.

DITTO!

The Marxists will do anything to keep their Pravda Presses alive.

[rabscuttle385]

Our country depends on an open and free press...

Who said that press had to be printed and run by the DNC?

The key words here are open and free, neither of which suitably describe the present print media cabal.

[SunkenCiv]

Like Jefferson, I believe that a well-informed public is the core of our democracy.

"...and that's why it is necessary to reinstate the Fairness Doctrine..."

[SevenofNine]

I got question who want buy SF Chroncile