Posted on 01/25/2014 7:06:00 AM PST by Kaslin
You can’t make a purse out of a sow’s ear and you can’t take a food or theater critic and make him a smart political polemicist. Especially when neither seemed all that good at their original jobs.
They went to the front page. And then, along with the dinosaur media, into the dustbin.
Because of their tremendous circulation, the editors thought that people actually CARED about their editorials.
What the internet has proved is that they were mostly buying the paper for the funnies, the entertainment, the stock market prices and the ball scores. With those things now on-line, no one needs the editorials, and they never did.
Some do, some don’t. *shrug*
I’ll tell ya who ... “news entertainment” and a gazillion blogs where anyone with a cpu toss around their opinion. That’s all there is in the news industry ... opinion. And when it’s all opinion then why should an editorial matter? Quite frankly, why should pundit’s opinions matter? (they shouldn’t).
News entertainment is manipulative, propagandist dreck. And it has not only killed news reporting, it (along with it’s lesser cousin the blog “news entertainment”) has killed the editorial.
All people do anymore is sit around and go “yeah, yeah, yeah!” about the opinions of others. There is no analysis, there is no research, there is just ... yeah, dreck.
So why would anyone read an editorial when they can turn to “news entertainment” and be told what they want to hear whether or not it is true?
They were replace with stenographers writing and then reading white house script.
Editorial writers hav e been black mailed and coerced in submission. They also don’t want to end up like Breitbart or the dude who’s Mercedes was smoked by a drone.
Check out Wes Pruden at the Washington Times.
Absolutely true. I read so many news stories which are just aimed at pushing a position, persuading the reader, defending a political ideology. That's not what news stories are supposed to do. But it's the 21st century, and my front page isn't giving me facts -- it's telling me what to think.
Meanwhile, I recently saw a TV Editorial which basically said [paraphrasing]: "Obamacare could be a good thing ... or it could be a bad thing. Some people are going to like it ... and some people are going to dislike it."
Thanks so much Mr. Editor.
What’s a Newspaper?
Why, the marxist control of the MSM. is there really any question????
A friend and superb writer showed me a letter to the editor he’d written on concealed carry. The original was a marvel of compact, lucid and persuasive argument. The published letter made him sound like a lunatic. I was, at that time, selling articles to the paper and knew the editor of the editorial page. So, I asked him why they’d edited the original the way they did. In all seriousness he said, “The original was so well written, how else would the readers understand that the guy was an extremist nut case?”
Because opinions are like, well, you know the rest.
inexpensive paper used to wrap fish or to line non-discriminating parrots cages....
this is a lesson I learned early on. don’t even try to write a cogent argument in response to a leftist editorial.
they will rip you a new one with your own (severely edited)words....
The internet killed the newspaper editorial with all its blogs.
Humblegunner is working on the rest.
Funny. All that writing and they conspicuously missed the root cause: Øbozo. Øbozo is the reason why they’ve gone so milquetoast. Editorials are there to castigate and cajole, to criticize and occasionally condemn. And there’s no shortage of topics to be outraged about. But every single one of them leads straight to Øbozo’s doorstep. And the very last thing that any of them dare to do is speak ill of the ØbaMessiah.
Instead they mindlessly intoned the idiotic “Bush’s fault!” long after the pull date and focused all their energy on the internecine warfare within the pubbie party.
Now they’ve got nothing....unless one of them grows a set and calls out the monster.
I remember newspapers.
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