Posted on 04/26/2009 7:43:10 AM PDT by pissant
I predict that the Times will declare bankruptcy and default on its debt. Once that is done someone like Soros will buy up the pieces dirty cheap and fund the newspaper from there.
Goebbels wasn’t a journalist either, to the best of my knowledge.
On the plus side, it can’t get any more leftwing even if Soro’s buys it.
But on the negative side, a New York Times without its debt load and with the Soros billions behind it will be even more dangerous.
I for one will dance an Irish jig in the streets when the NYT goes under once and for all, never to resurface again.
Never happen. It will be “stimulated” back into production.
On the plus side, at least the claims of it being a socialist rag will be inarguable.
The Times is a sinking money pit. Their incredibly dishonest and unethical reporting standards sealed their fate. This though, is how capitalism should work. They put out a crappy product and very few want to buy anymore.
I hope Soros puts his greedy little communist hands into this disgrace of a company.
I think that you better save your dancing for a while, because even after bankruptcy, the NYT will continue, like one of the walking dead, eating the brains of its readers. It might even get a federal buyout. After all, it is “too big to fail.”
Bill’s rant, while enjoyable, is not accurate.
The NYT is not going down because it alienated its audience by being overly liberal. In fact, it tells its primary audience, the people of NY and environs, exactly what most of them want to hear.
There are lots of reasons for the decline and fall of the NYT, but ideological imbalance isn’t a primary factor.
That unfair and unbalanced approach has alienated a large number of readers and advertisers...46 percent of Americans define themselves as conservative, while just 34 percent say they are liberal.
insulting half the country on a daily basis may not be a great business plan.
There are incredibly devoted (or addicted) liberal readers of the NYT. Reading the Sunday Times is what they do while others are in church.
All week thereafter, they will spout what they read in the NYT. It is a way of life which has advantages, because the effort of any serious thinking can be avoided. From the Times, one’s intellectual food comes pre-chewed, and regurgitated like the fish-mush that a mother cormorant vomits into the mouths of her eagerly awaiting young.
Liberal zombie sheep printing propaganda and lies to more liberal zombie sheep.
I also imagine that the NYP, WashTimes and WSJ have gotten lazy, knowing that they need only assume that the NYT is 100% in order to determine how to correctly report a story.
That should have been “...need only assume that the NYT is 100% WRONG ...”
I think that you better save your dancing for a while, because even after bankruptcy, the NYT will continue, like one of the walking dead, eating the brains of its readers. It might even get a federal buyout. After all, it is “too big to fail.”
No, the Times isn’t too BIG to fail. It’s too valuable to the left/democrat party to fail.
I love reading the NYP and WSJ. Compared to the NYT, they are pinnacles of journalistic integrity!
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