Posted on 04/25/2009 3:33:16 PM PDT by kellynla
Why can't Krugman save the business that writes his pay check???
Good riddance...
I can see an affluent liberal rescuing the paper.
Too much at stake to let it go into bankruptcy court. The NYT provides lots of union jobs as well as being a soapbox for a lot of prominent liberals.
Any one who still believes this is living in a fool's paradise. Look at the last election. Look where public policy has gone in the last few decades. Even when Republicans won it was just a holding pattern until the next lurch to the left.
Homosexual marriage was judged to be a constitutional right in Iowa of all places. Even the heartland has rotted out. Sorry, but the silent majority is dead, assuming they ever existed in the first place.
As for the New York Times, they're suffering from the same thing that every other print paper is suffering from. O'Reilly is just engaging in wishful thinking. Print media will die off, only to be replaced by a far more powerful left wing electronic media. There's no real cause to celebrate here.
That means they are insulting about 90% of all readers..
Iowa has been rotting out for a long time. The insane government subsidies for ethanol keeps Iowa leaning far left.
Grassley and Dung Heap Harkin as senators? Please.
Sounds like a great opportunity for a FREEP! :-) Too bad I’m way out here on the left coast.
There was some talk about the Boston Globe being under a May 1 deadline. This makes sense.
If they close it early enough, the employees will not have to take a vacation day to carry all those red banners in the big May Day Parade in Harvard Square.
I have argued for decades that “the Heartland” has been at least in part antithetical to traditional mores. Yes, they posture as traditionalists, but for the most part it has been the incubator for radical populist progressivism, aka communism. Minnesota was the home of Henry Wallace, the commie VP to FDR, and the state Dems are actually a watered down version of the CPUSA. Iowa has long been a hotbed of agrarian collectivism. Ditto Wisconsin, who IIRC was the seedbed from whence sprouted government indoctrination camps, aka “public” schools. All three of these places are simply leftist asylums, and I say this as a former Minnesotan. They mouth patriotism but when push comes to shove they vote commie. In addition, Minnesota “niceness” has rendered them incapable of imposing judgement on the crisis of islamofascism which has definitely taken hold in the Great White North.
Yes. Contrary to what this article suggests, winning a lot of Pulitzer Prizes is usually a mark of shame, not of quality.
It’s like the Nobel Peace Prize. Maybe once in 5 or 10 years they give it to someone who deserves it, but that’s more the exception than the rule.
And there are few more incestuous relationships than the NYTimes and the Columbia School of Journalism. Essentially they are giving the prize to themselves.
Well...I have to wonder where folks are going to get such a high quality bird cage liner if they fail...
NOW is the time to send boycott letters/e-mails to advertisers of the NY Times, and put this evil rag out of business. Click for Boycott the NY Times:
I guess O'Reilly nodded off for the last eight years.
The Times and Globe going under is almost as unthinkable as the USSR going under. There is hope.
The Times has systematically destroyed most of its true equity, whis is its reputation and credibility.
The Gray Lady will never recover.
Good bye, and good riddance!
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