Posted on 04/09/2018 5:19:23 AM PDT by Kaslin
Sowed the seeds of their own destructio by squanderi g their only stock in trade: their credibility.
The Denver Post is a continuing joke. Peter Boyles (a local Denver talk show host) is having a grand time exposing how the Post assisted in covering up a scandal involving the mayor. (Denver is liberal, so we know by definition that the government is corrupt). Their editorials are sources of constant amusement. The Post did its normal (e.g. horrible) job making excuses when the Denver Police Chief (friend of the major, of course) did not allow his police to protect their own memorial when it was vandalized a while back. The cops had to stand behind locked doors and watch. Really.
The paper really is good only for the bottom of bird cages. Its demise cannot happen too soon.
But this is standard operating procedure under the dictatorship of the Proletariat. The Bourgeoisie must be brought to heel in a great class struggle which is manifestly a political struggle.
Unfortunately, America is throwing off Bolshevism, so they are out of luck.
“Even today, consider the incessant focus of the diminishing liberal print press on the plight of illegal aliens instead of American citizens.”
Newspapers have credibility? Not in the last 20 years. The only people who buy their product are those who want their false worldview reinforced.
A person will believe a lie that he wants to be true or is afraid is true"Terry Goodkind
I followed a similar path, moving to Denver in ‘76. Moved to a western slope rural town in ‘09, it’s fantastic to be with real people again.
I laughed out loud when I saw the Denver Post staff photo and whining (on facebook), haven’t read that crappy paper in years. The double whammy is that most young people, who are more likely to be infected with liberalism, don’t read papers either. These “journalists are literally writing to and for each other.
Have they forgotten that newspapers are a product and a service, both which must respond to public taste and the marketplace?
That is not entirely true, there was never a time that newspaper were not biased. But up until the end of WWII every city big and small had two or more newspapers. Many with names such as the Daily Democrat or Daily Republican. There was no doubt where there bias was. People bought papers that supported their views.
The various papers kept each other “honest” or at least able to balance each other. The seed for the death of newspapers came after WWII when large companies began buying out newspapers until we are where we are today - almost all news papers today speak with one voice (certainly only one point of view).
The internet did not kill newspapers. The people involved in the news business killed newspapers. The internet just made it possible for no one to care if they all go out of business.
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I occasionally leaf through a Sunday paper at my mom’s, she still subscribes. There’s little of interest in there, even on Sunday. The paper itself is about the number of pages I recall a weekday edition being, the rest is an absolute pile of ads. The opinions section is mind-numbingly leftist. The slant is in every article, the only escape is the obituaries. This is a newspaper that was once printed twice daily. I sort of miss the ritual of fanning out a huge Sunday paper with a cup of coffee on Sunday morning, spending an hour or two reading interesting things. That doesn’t exist anymore as far as I can tell.
atheism + naturalism + materialism = subjectivism & relativism = anything goes & moral neutrality
That’s my point. All any news organization has to offer is its credibility. And the Fourth Estate, in its zeal to promote its arrogant, elitist agenda, has exhausted the public trust.
If it's NYT or WaPo, I immediately dismiss the article as not worth the time investment, and move on to something else.
"People are stupid; given proper motivation, almost anyone will believe almost anything. Because people are stupid, they will believe a lie because they want to believe it's true, or because they're afraid it might be true. Peoples' heads are full of knowledge, facts and beliefs, and most of it is false, yet they think it all true. People are stupid; they can only rarely tell the difference between a lie and the truth, and yet they are confident they can, and so are all the easier to fool."Goodkind
I blame John Denver and that lousy song that brought hundreds of thousands of Libtards to Colorado and changed it deep blue.
College journalism majors have been taught that advocacy, not objectivity, is the mainstay of their profession.
How to put yourself out of business and never be trusted in one easy act.
Not true. I buy the local daily newspaper (Tacoma Tribune) for the comics and to see just how far they push the progressive agenda, even as their ad base and readership decline. Just when you think they can't get worse, they "kick it down a notch".
That would be so kool.
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