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Conservatives Shouldn't Own Newspapers?
Townhall.com ^ | April 3, 2013 | Brent Bozell

Posted on 04/03/2013 11:13:54 AM PDT by Kaslin

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To: Still Thinking
Thirty years ago Phoenix was quite conservative - but, then began a stream of Californians fleeing the bloody socialist state - that their votes created! They moved to Phoenix, and continued to vote for socialist candidates.

Now sales taxes are higher in Arizona than they are in CA! State government has turned left, hard.

Worse, I bought a house in Prescott Valley, thinking I would escape from high taxes - now I find this was a huge mistake.

I'm facing retirement, and the future in AZ looks little better than here in CA (Commie-Abyss.)

21 posted on 04/03/2013 12:22:32 PM PDT by Ron C.
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To: muir_redwoods

I enjoyed reading our newspaper The Leaf Chronicle, which was a nice little paper and just the right size. I canceled our subscription after they let the Gannet corporation take over, because there was nothing in that was of any interest to me. It took me five minutes to read what I found worthwhile.


22 posted on 04/03/2013 12:28:00 PM PDT by Kaslin (He needed the ignorant to reelect him, and he got them. Now we all have to pay the consequenses)
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To: Ron C.

I’m beginning to think that the walls that once kept people inside communist hell-holes weren’t such a bad thing after all....


23 posted on 04/03/2013 12:32:07 PM PDT by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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To: V_TWIN
I use my local rag to light my charcoal grill with, the wife clips the cupons, other than that it’s usless.

I have despised my local "news"paper for years. The Mrs. wouldn't cancel it because she enjoyed the puzzles and comics over coffee in the A.M. Also, it was here primary source of "news."

I managed to get her looking at alternative news sources and that, along with the "news"paper's shift even FURTHER leftward during the 2012 election cycle, finally p*ssed her off enough to cancel.


24 posted on 04/03/2013 12:35:30 PM PDT by Peet (Notice: Due to the high price of ammo, there will be NO warning shots.)
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To: Peet

Nuts! I proofread that and still...

“...it was her primary...” NOT “here primary”


25 posted on 04/03/2013 12:45:21 PM PDT by Peet (Notice: Due to the high price of ammo, there will be NO warning shots.)
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To: Kaslin
In front of a graphic reading "Murdochopoly," Fox-hating Jon Stewart on "The Daily Show" announced the government has prevented cross-ownership of TV stations and newspapers in the past. "We wouldn't want Rupert Murdoch to be disproportionately powerful," said Jon Stewart... Stewart was also alarmed that Murdoch would boast that his media properties could swing elections or change the political agenda. "The law against media consolidation was really written with people like you in mind," Stewart lectured. "Well, actually you in particular, because of how you like to do the exact thing the law was created to prevent."

But Stewart had no problem with AOL-TimeWarner when they merged? He didn't mind having Ted Turner on top of AOL, CNN, Time Magazine, HBO, and TBS?

-PJ

26 posted on 04/03/2013 1:10:18 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too (If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
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To: Kaslin

Of course not; it will further disturb the liberal media monopoly.


27 posted on 04/03/2013 1:17:34 PM PDT by TBP (Obama lies, Granny dies.)
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To: Kaslin

I’d love to see the Koch brothers take over Tribune and straighten out the place ASAP. Colonel McCormick would be proud.


28 posted on 04/03/2013 1:19:07 PM PDT by TBP (Obama lies, Granny dies.)
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To: Kaslin
"WE NEED NEWS, NOT MORE SPIN."

Then support the Koch brothers in their bid for the paper.

29 posted on 04/03/2013 1:22:13 PM PDT by TBP (Obama lies, Granny dies.)
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To: faithhopecharity
If the paper goes conservative - or even 'balanced' I wish the new publishers luck in finding conservative journalists.

Journalism in college - much like 'education' - is lots of 'group think' and not a lot of talent. They need to hire conservatives as reporters and teach them how to write. Middle class citizens who are actually part of the city - not elites who's real specialty is knowing the best heath club in town - would be a good start... For editors? Go with Sowell, Daniel Greenfield, and Jonah Goldberg... top conservative thinkers...

30 posted on 04/03/2013 1:23:04 PM PDT by GOPJ (More people vote for a living than work for a living - Marc Faber)
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To: TBP

You got something against it?


31 posted on 04/03/2013 1:26:40 PM PDT by Kaslin (He needed the ignorant to reelect him, and he got them. Now we all have to pay the consequenses)
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To: wku man
Surely there's some enterprising investment person or team out there that could make that happen.

Bill Whittle is certainly trying. Conservative seem to want to avoid the media all together so we get what we get.

I can say that if they don't invest in media they will have helped kill the government that made their wealth possible. Who will then protect their wealth?

32 posted on 04/03/2013 1:31:23 PM PDT by itsahoot (It is not so much that history repeats, but that human nature does not change.)
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" Now sales taxes are higher in Arizona than they are in CA! State government has turned left, hard. Worse, I bought a house in Prescott Valley, thinking I would escape from high taxes - now I find this was a huge mistake."

Really? I was considering Prescott. I like the smaller community and of course, Arizona gun rights. Guess, I should stick with my first choice Reno, NV.

33 posted on 04/03/2013 1:32:56 PM PDT by A Navy Vet (An Oath is Forever)
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To: V_TWIN
Very well said.

And without even mentioning that Larry O'Brien of the L. A. Slimes can't even discuss conservative ideas or politicians without showing us huge, staring eyes, veins standing out on his neck and temples, and froth on his lips.

34 posted on 04/03/2013 1:50:02 PM PDT by lentulusgracchus
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To: A Navy Vet
Guess, I should stick with my first choice Reno, NV.

Really? Reno. For gun rights. Ironic choice.

35 posted on 04/03/2013 1:52:50 PM PDT by lentulusgracchus
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To: Kaslin

How can Conservatives run and operate a newspaper?

They are nowhere near as bright, intelligent, intellectual, smart and cerebral as Progressives, dontcha know.
(The only thing that Conservatives like to do is thump bibles, buy guns and ammunition and drag their knuckles, ya know?)

/s/

IMHO


36 posted on 04/03/2013 2:48:21 PM PDT by ripley
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To: wku man
Surely there's some enterprising investment person or team out there that could make that happen.

In Philadelphia there are two newspapers and both are owned by something called (I think) Newscorp. Anyway they are both uber liberal rags, the Daily News and the Inquirer. A few years ago they were both about to go broke and an investment group pooled their money and bought them, saving them from certain collapse. However, the head of the group was a republican and the reporters revolted. They insisted he sign a pledge not to try to influence them or the editorial page or they would go on strike. He signed it, ensuring that the hard core lefties would remain and the paper would continue the downward spiral. Proves that just because someone who isn't a liberal democrat gets control of a newspaper you can't assume it will stop being a liberal rag.

About a year ago, the group sold the papers to another consortium, this time formed from a bunch of prominent rich democrats. Not a peep from the reporters about that.

37 posted on 04/03/2013 6:54:14 PM PDT by pepsi_junkie (Who is John Galt?)
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To: pepsi_junkie

News Corp is Rupert Murdoch.
The Philly Inquirer is (at least according to Wiki) owned by a group of local investors.


38 posted on 04/03/2013 6:59:40 PM PDT by nascarnation (Baraq's economic policy: trickle up poverty)
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To: max americana

Agreed 100%!!

I haven’t bought an LA times in 15 years.

It’s been 10 years since I’ve even read it. But if I move from CA I’ll probably buy a once-a-week copy and have it mailed to me, and I cannot even tell you why.

That’s a fact.


39 posted on 04/03/2013 7:02:30 PM PDT by Cringing Negativism Network
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To: nascarnation

You are correct, I misremembered. It’s called Philadelphia Media Holdings. When it was run by a republican (note I don’t say conservative because Brian Tierney is pretty establishment I think) the reporters raised hell. Now that it’s run by a democrat they are silent. There ya go.


40 posted on 04/03/2013 7:06:16 PM PDT by pepsi_junkie (Who is John Galt?)
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