“WE NEED NEWS, NOT MORE SPIN.”
Well I agree with ‘em on that point.
This paper so slants and distorts its “news” as to be unreadable. Hope new owners can clean it up (keep editorial opinions or slants on the Opinion page where they belong)
Union bustin’ makes me feel good...
... This type of censorship is very popular in the socialist/communist utopias. I have no idea why the leadership would desire it here in free America. < /sarcasm >
I thought they were arguing AGAINST conservative ownership??
it doesn't take courage to be a liberal. it doesn't even take brains. if they changed Institute to Program it would be more appropriately abbreviated CCCP.
If the Times would just hold on a few more months, why the value of the paper would drop low enough for a web blog to actually buy it!
Free Republic Times!
If the Koch brothers do buy these newspapers, probably the best thing they could do would be to set up their own journalism, objective reporting, and editing school.
All “journalists” would have to spend two years not just writing objective news based on events they are shown, but they would have to take corrupted, subjective news, produced by others, and correct it so that it *is* objective. If they just cannot control themselves to *not* insert bias in their reports, they fail.
Right now, with a ridiculously tight job market, recruits to become journalists would be people with degrees in other subjects, be they history, engineering, computer science, law and criminal justice, you name it. Their degree would give them specialties in vetting news that involved their expertise.
That is, if a reporter was writing a story on a historical event, they would have to have it vetted by someone credentialed in that subject.
Finally, being an editor, if done properly, is a very hard line of work. They do not just catch grammatical errors, but logical errors, journalistic errors, and errors that could provoke a legal attack, such as libel. So to become an editor, you likely need another year or two of schooling.
I was paying the bills one night and l looked at the three month bill for the Hartford Courant I tried to remember the last time I had read an editorial I agreed with. I called and cancelled the next day and never looked back.
Great historical point by Brent Bozell! In the first half of the twentieth century and even beyond that in some instances, major big city American newspapers were, more often than not, owned by conservatives who were by and large not afraid to publicize their views on the editorial pages. In an age where newspapers served as the number one source of news for Americans, these papers played at least somewhat of a role in mitigating the leftist politics in Washington during the Franklin D. Roosevelt New Deal era and later.
Believe it or not, even the Washington Post was owned by staunchly Republican close friends of Calvin Coolidge during his administration. Other major newspapers once considered to have a conservative editorial slant included the Philadelphia Inquirer and the New York Daily News.
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
Of course not; it will further disturb the liberal media monopoly.
I’d love to see the Koch brothers take over Tribune and straighten out the place ASAP. Colonel McCormick would be proud.
Then support the Koch brothers in their bid for the paper.
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
I fear a time is coming soon when magazine ownership will prove a lot more decisive than newspaper ownership...
Jon Stewart should be shot out of a cannon.