Posted on 08/06/2019 11:25:13 PM PDT by knighthawk
Our courageous truth-tellers in the national news media have decided to attack The New York Times as fake news. The crime leading to the Grey Lady getting canceled?
A headline attempting to describe President Trump’s extended response to two mass shootings with different motives: “TRUMP URGES UNITY VS. RACISM.”
Leftists and leftists disguised as journalists, who have spent the past two years melting down in apoplectic rage over Trump’s crude and demeaning posture toward the free press, have responded by spearheading a #CancelNYT movement.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
Maybe MORE PEOPLE will CANCEL THEIR SUBSCRIPTIONS !
Stray ONE IOTA off the orthodoxy road and the left will gut you.
Talk about fascism — the left defines it.
LOL you can be the flagship carrying the hard left’s water for a century or more, but the moment you print a non-slanted headline they go all boo boycott cancel on ya.
The Left’s fascism will destroy Capitalism and America’s culture of greatness if they take power. We have seen it in their words and deeds which infects our culture and ruins everything it touches.
The Master Troll continues to cause the left to eat each other. Winning!
If the NYT changed ownership in favor of an owner patriot their subscriptions would soar. Everyone enjoys holding and reading a newspaper. Those currently in print are trash. Change that and the Old Gray Lady might return to her former glory. Oh, and add a comix page. WTH.
Financially they aren't doing bad, I heard. They appeal to a particular niche in the public and constant attacks on the president are what appeals to their target audience.
That is the new media marketing strategy. Wide appeal means appeal to nobody. You don't try to attract a large, undifferentiated audience.
You appeal to the passions of a smaller segment and try to hold onto it. And in big cities, the Times audience is a large niche that the company doesn't want to give up.
Everyone enjoys holding and reading a newspaper.
It's not the 1950s anymore. If some people enjoy holding newspapers, it's because of the nostalgic appeal of some part of the past that is quickly vanishing. The days when Dad brought the paper home to mom and the kids are gone.
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