“Since the U.S. Senate rejected President Obama’s gun control package last year, “coward” has become gun control supporters’ default slur for any elected official who doesn’t kowtow to their demands.”
Totally true in the NJ newspapers. And like petulent teenagers, the editorial writers just call everything “stewpid” when they can’t come up with a mature and logical argument against it.
An editorial in one of the NJ papers this week said that Christie’s veto of the magazine limit could potentially enable a weekend of violence such as in Chicago recently. I hate to burst their little diversity bubble, but the problem there isn’t magazine limits or legal gun ownership.
I concluded a long time ago that local newspapers are no longer written for the type of people who read local newspapers.
“I concluded a long time ago that local newspapers are no longer written for the type of people who read local newspapers.”
Yes, they don’t have much influence at this point. As everywhere else, fewer people are getting their news from the print media; in NJ, that is compounded by the exodus of English-speakers from the state. Years ago when I would get telemarketing calls from the Star-Ledger or New York Times, I would actually tell the caller which recent political endorsement would prevent me from ever buying their papers again...