Posted on 10/20/2009 2:07:50 PM PDT by George Stupidnopolis
Save them? Yes! In the coming depression, we are all going to need a cheap source of asswipe paper.
I have save all newspapers that chronicle World events. I started with the Assination of Kennedy. Sadly I stopped when O was elected. I may start again with the 2010 Election.
Anyway, when I pull out newpapers from previous years the decline in the today’s reporting abilities is shockingly evident.
Why is it that I like Canadian and British papers so much more?
They do not engage in the habit of studiously insulting the readers’ collective intelligence.
Who is even surprised that such an idea would be floated?
In the era of Obama, it’s not “Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country”, but more like “Everybody, get some (of other peoples money, money we print, money we mortgage our children and grandchildren’s future with, etc.)!”
Depending, of course, on which party is in the WH.
It has nothing to do with the internet; the magazine tried to become hip and in the process it became unreadable.
There would be one difference. At present, you can simply refuse to by a newspaper that you detest.
If the power brokers of journalism get their way, you’ll be ponying up cash every week.
Try this sh*t and watch what happens to every newspaper vending machine. A single pack of matches can do wonders on a stack of newspaper. Add an excellerant and you have a 4th of July celebration of free speech. Think I am over reacting, remember thoses cities that thought they could raise the cost of parking meters? Gee, how many parking meters went missing? Its an expensive undertaking to steal from everyone - it takes a village idiot to try.
Can’t use newspapers for that, the ink comes off.
Who’s gonna notice?
The correct response to that is that “it makes your ass black”.
J School Profs need to watch “The Obsolete Man”.
Assuming that there will ever be a different one.
True.
Anything I might be disposed to say to that will get me banned.
You are too timid. This isn’t a black/white thing. It is a comment about worthlessness of newspapers. THe fact that the ink is blak is irrelevant. The “I’m offended because what you said is a racial slur” thing doesn’t/won’t work with me and many others anymore.
Well the only thing media knows is to “speak out”. They don’t understand business, or how business works, or how to make anything profitable, so they “speak out” for a life preserver. Keep hollering Ole Yeller, we can’t hear ya! Get
off your cushy butt and work for a living.......
Asking the Taxpayers for a bailout?
The Taxpayers say no. And newspapers can have a nice day.
It’s funny that during a time of economic crisis the newspapers are demanding tax cuts. They’re demanded tax HIKES for the rest of us.
Hear-hear, DG!!
"Get off your cushy butt and work for a living..."
Given the rags are almost universally going belly-up & at warp speed? Kinda tough on that ilk, don'tcha think? LOL!!
I was actually thinking along somewhat different lines, having more to do with certain anatomical displays.
But I didn't say it!
Btw, before upbraiding somebody about timidity, consider if he might be old enough to remember Jimmy "the Greek".
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