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Fla paper makes unprecidented apology to readers.... (shortened for length)
BizPac Review ^ | oct 30 2016 | Carmine Sabia

Posted on 10/30/2016 10:12:04 PM PDT by Bubba Gump Shrimp

A central Florida newspaper has apologized to its readers for the decidedly anti-Donald Trump coverage that has been published during the election.

The Daily Commercial published an editorial titled “The media, the election and bias” on Oct. 23 that explained the paper is reliant on wire services for much of its election coverage and those reports are weighted heavily against Trump.

“The Daily Commercial hasn’t done enough to mitigate the anti-Trump wave in the pages of this paper,” it wrote. “You deserve a more balanced approach to the coverage of elections and other weighty issues.”

Read more: http://www.bizpacreview.com/2016/10/30/fla-paper-makes-unprecidented-apology-readers-anti-trump-coverage-deserve-balance-406267#ixzz4OdXSJUkV

(Excerpt) Read more at linkis.com ...


TOPICS: Politics/Elections; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: enemedia; fla; newspaper; paper; trump
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To: Bubba Gump Shrimp

I followed the link all the way back to the original “open letter” and sure enough, it too engaged in Trump bashing, and insults directed to him. It does mention that their readers have been calling and writing to them about their bias, and it took them to within a week of the election to come up with this rather insulting drivel.


21 posted on 10/30/2016 10:40:32 PM PDT by euram
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To: sourcery
They sense that Hillary will lose.

...and don't want their offices burned to the ground...lol. They think WE are like THEM, but we're not.

22 posted on 10/30/2016 10:43:19 PM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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To: euram

Yup, even the apology... they couldn’t help get some digs in on DJT. Sad. One of those “I apologize if I offended anyone.. but...” sort of things.


23 posted on 10/30/2016 10:44:09 PM PDT by Bubba Gump Shrimp (A Liberal is someone who cannot accept that there is a Law of Unintended Consequences)
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To: sourcery

CYA all over the place. They’re running around like rats on a sinking ship........too bad. Trump doesn’t forget.....;)


24 posted on 10/30/2016 10:47:03 PM PDT by Dawgreg (Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.)
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To: Reddy

When they confess they have looked at the early voting results in Florida and figured out Trump was going to sweep Florida—and that is why they are changing their tune—then they will re-establish their credibility.

What we have now is a “limited hang out”, not the truth.


25 posted on 10/30/2016 10:47:47 PM PDT by cgbg (Another World War I veteran for Hillary!)
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To: Bubba Gump Shrimp

Are journolists starting to get lamppostophobia?


26 posted on 10/30/2016 10:54:56 PM PDT by TigersEye (~Questionable Hillary thinks Putin made me post this!~)
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To: cgbg

Then they need to do an expose on how the media was corrupted by the democrats to spew lies and distortions about Trump and his supporters. Then they must spend the next two years exposing every crooked dem in the country.


27 posted on 10/30/2016 10:59:40 PM PDT by Betty Jane
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To: Bubba Gump Shrimp

Checked keywords for satire. Did not see satire. Rubbing my eyes. Could someone please confirm, Is this for real?


28 posted on 10/30/2016 11:02:28 PM PDT by kevao (Biblical Jesus: Give your money to the poor. Socialist Jesus: Give your neighbor's money to the poor)
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To: xrmusn

Mittens Romney needs to shown the door! Please make sure he’s added to the list of turncoats and obnoxious panderers.


29 posted on 10/30/2016 11:09:25 PM PDT by TheWriterTX (Trust not in earthly princes....)
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To: TigersEye

Afraid of being a target for a stray dog?


30 posted on 10/30/2016 11:12:07 PM PDT by AndyJackson
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To: AndyJackson

Journolists?


31 posted on 10/30/2016 11:16:31 PM PDT by TigersEye (~Questionable Hillary thinks Putin made me post this!~)
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To: Bubba Gump Shrimp
P.O.S. local rag "West Hawaii Today" does the same thing, and their "editorial" page is 100% WaPo/NYT/LAT/AP propaganda.

Do not subscribe, but rather than read, "raid" their online edition to bomb the liberals.

32 posted on 10/30/2016 11:18:13 PM PDT by doorgunner69
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To: Betty Jane

Two years would not be enough time to do that!


33 posted on 10/30/2016 11:31:38 PM PDT by zaxtres
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To: Trump20162020
“Please trust us again after Americans elect Donald Trump, despite all our shilling for Hillary Clinton and bashing of Trump.”

Yup. I will NEVER trust the media again after this election! Not that I trust much of it now...

34 posted on 10/30/2016 11:33:30 PM PDT by nutmeg (I am a proud Deplorable)
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To: Bubba Gump Shrimp

fl


35 posted on 10/30/2016 11:36:18 PM PDT by maine-iac7 (Christian is as Christian does)
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To: Bubba Gump Shrimp

Sounds like their readership tanked (which they probably don’t mind directly) but as a result their ad revenue tanked (and they mind that very much).


36 posted on 10/30/2016 11:47:26 PM PDT by NonValueAdded (#DeplorableMe #BitterClinger #HillNO!)
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To: Bubba Gump Shrimp; 3D-JOY

FWIW - I’ve never before heard of such a thing.

I am pleasantly surprised.


37 posted on 10/30/2016 11:51:48 PM PDT by onyx (VOTE FOR TRUMP or DON'T VOTE AT ALL! DONATE MONTHLY or JOIN CLUB 300!)
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To: Bubba Gump Shrimp

We had no idea that Trump’s deplorables could even read our newspaper, let alone cancel their subscriptions!


38 posted on 10/31/2016 12:06:23 AM PDT by TChad
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To: fullchroma

Probably NOT JUST subscription cancellations, but also calls and emails to advertisers that they are on a blacklist by concerned consumers.

When the real American people speak, their voices can shatter the wall of lies and tons of newsprint crap that the Democrats put up and out.

Alligators - 1; Hillary - 0


39 posted on 10/31/2016 12:15:57 AM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: Bubba Gump Shrimp

TRANSLATION:

Trump is going to win.

Yes, we sold out our souls and credibility to be seen as politically-correct, but now we would like to avoid the coming Media Conglomerate Anti-trust lawsuits.


40 posted on 10/31/2016 12:18:01 AM PDT by tcrlaf (They told me it could never happen in America. And then it did....)
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