People understandably have this idealistic view of the media as people only interested in reporting the facts...regardless of how much people like us try to convince them that it’s not the case (and trust me, if you ever see the writings that people in ‘Journalism’ schools write, you’d throw up). They just write us off as a bunch of talk-radio brainwashed types.
But when THEIR newspaper, the space that they’ve trusted for decades, now outs themselves and their political agenda, everything we’ve told them is SHOVED IN THEIR FACES and they can’t ignore it...and so the cancellations.
The ONLY WAY this can end is when rich Tea Party types actually buy some of these outlets and replaces their staffs with people that are NOT ‘Journalism’ majors. In fact, I still don’t see why ‘Journalism’ should be a college major - what is so special about it, learning to plug-in a microphone to a camera? Get REAL PEOPLE that represent the community reporting the news and writing the editorials, and hell, I may even subscribe to paper editions (Houston Chronicle, in my case). Of course I don’t see that happening, so I’ll have to live with my $300/year savings by not subscribing.