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1 posted on 05/05/2009 7:53:30 AM PDT by SmithL
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To: abb

For your consideration.


2 posted on 05/05/2009 7:54:25 AM PDT by SmithL (The Golden State demands all of your gold)
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To: SmithL

Just the fact that something like this appears in the SFC is encouraging. I still believe that the MSM, including newspapers, will make a hard turn right to save the business. If my theory that money trumps all else is correct, even ideology, then it must occur soon to save the business, and prove my theory correct.


4 posted on 05/05/2009 8:02:21 AM PDT by devane617 (Republicans first strategy should be taking over the MSM. Without it we are doomed.)
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To: SmithL

LEANING? LEANING?

I suppose that the Socialist Worker “leans” Left too.


5 posted on 05/05/2009 8:03:20 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (IRONY - we know more about the First Dog's historical papers than we do of President Barack.)
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To: SmithL
editors write the criticism off

The first job of an editor is to ensure proper grammar. The SF Chronicle should go down in flames for letting in split infinitives. Probably they just want Saunders to look bad.

6 posted on 05/05/2009 8:08:22 AM PDT by drubyfive
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To: SmithL

“Liberal newspapers helped build conservative media.”

So true and a message worth repeating over and over again.


7 posted on 05/05/2009 8:11:40 AM PDT by rod1
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To: SmithL

The trouble with reporting is that it’s too dull and boring, everyone envisions himself a knowledgeable pundit with something important to say — the only true reporting today is by the obituary writer.


9 posted on 05/05/2009 8:13:31 AM PDT by Old Professer (The critic writes with rapier pen, dips it twice, then writes again.)
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To: SmithL
Denial is powerful. Let them destroy themselves.
11 posted on 05/05/2009 8:24:50 AM PDT by Vision (Obama is a jive turkey)
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To: SmithL

MAY THE BITTER END COME SWIFTLY


16 posted on 05/05/2009 8:34:52 AM PDT by NordP (CONSERVATIVE AGAIN IN 2010 ..... Now, is it 2012 yet ???)
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To: SmithL

At almost all newspapers, they might as well put a rack of soup bowls by the door. They can just drop off their brain on the way out, and pick up one off the rack when they return the next day - no labels needed, since the intelligence and reasoning processes are identical for all of them!


18 posted on 05/05/2009 8:35:54 AM PDT by MainFrame65 (The US Senate: World's greatest PREVARICATIVE body!.)
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To: SmithL

I think all of this starts at the top. The guy who writes the checks controls what gets printed in the rags. And the guy who writes the checks wants leftist tripe. So that’s what’s there.


23 posted on 05/05/2009 8:40:10 AM PDT by 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten
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“Liberals mock the news network's “fair and balanced” slogan. But if you read your average newspaper, then tune into Fox News or listen to conservative talk radio, it evens out.”

Bingo!!! The whole idea that there could or even should be an unbiased media is nonsense and a relatively recent invention (ever wonder why some newspapers have Democrat or Republican in their names?). Give me several outlets that readily admit there editorial outlook and I'll figure it out for myself.

25 posted on 05/05/2009 8:42:02 AM PDT by Red Dog #1
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To: nutmeg

Ping


26 posted on 05/05/2009 8:45:46 AM PDT by EdReform (The right of the people to keep and bear Arms shall not be infringed *NRA*JPFO*SAF*GOA*SAS*CCRKBA)
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To: SmithL

The motto of the lib newspapers appears to be...Do not go softly into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dieing of the light.


27 posted on 05/05/2009 8:50:53 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (14. Guns only have two enemies: rust and politicians.)
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To: SmithL

I’ve often found it odd that liberalism consistently wins at elections and the polls, but consistently loses in the marketplace.

One explanation could be that those with money to spend are not representative of the population as a whole.

Another might be that the elections and polls are tilted in a certain direction.

Both factors could be operating at once.


30 posted on 05/05/2009 10:06:12 AM PDT by 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten
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To: SmithL

They’ve leaned left for so long their right leg has grown 6 extra inches...


31 posted on 05/05/2009 10:06:45 AM PDT by MortMan (Power without responsibility-the prerogative of the harlot throughout the ages. - Rudyard Kipling)
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To: SmithL

Journalists, reporters and editors are liberal because they were “educated” in colleges that have been overrun by socialist profs.


34 posted on 05/05/2009 11:32:58 AM PDT by Rennes Templar
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To: SmithL
Debra is the token right of center columnist for the SF Chronicle. She has had some very good columns lately. I do not always agree with her but compared to the usual lefties they publish she is a breath of fresh air. A lot of their readers are starting to complain about her views so her days may be numbered particularly considering the papers financial problems.
35 posted on 05/05/2009 11:41:55 AM PDT by Uncle Hal
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To: SmithL
I've read several of Saunders’ articles now, and greatly appreciate her thoughtful observations. The first time I read her, I found it impossible to believe she works for the San Fran Chronic, and that they pay her to write for them. Perhaps employing her is an attempt to tilt the Chronic an itsy bitsy, teeny weeny bit away from the ultra-far left that is the rest of their paper.

Won't work. The Chronic is doomed. San Francisco is the most leftest city in the U.S., and the SFC is amongst the most leftest papers in the U.S., and yet the Chronic can't sell enough papers to stay alive.

Yes, their biggest problem is the destruction of the the newspaper paradigm by the Internet, but somehow, it seems lefties simply don't buy newspapers as much as conservatives. I suspect that is partially because, as a group, lefties are younger and more freshly indoctrinated from our Ward Churchillized universities. Also, I suspect that lefties don't need to read quite as much as conservatives, already knowing everything there is to know and already having their minds permanently made up on all subjects. I might point out that this latter surmise is based on personal observation.

Oh well, back to the subject. At least Debra Saunders will land on her feet, distinguishing herself from the herd of job-seeking former Chronic employees by being a rational, intelligent, and articulate being.

41 posted on 05/05/2009 9:18:57 PM PDT by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Made from The Right Stuff)
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