1,000 people drop subscriptions, claiming newspaper Mideast coverage is pro-Palestinian

Associated Press ^ | 4-18-02

[Oldeconomybuyer]

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- About 1,000 people have suspended their subscriptions to the Los Angeles Times, claiming the newspaper's coverage of unrest in the Middle East is biased toward the Palestinians.

Times officials said in Thursday's editions that they began receiving numerous calls Monday about their reporting of the Middle East conflict. About 900 calls were logged Wednesday, but not all of the people requested suspensions.

[cricket]

"Our goal is to provide coverage that is both fair and complete," he said. "We feel that we serve our readership by covering all aspects and points of view." . . .

seems their readers disagree. . .and kudos to those who have canceled.

. . .nice to some good news.

[Lazamataz]

Any person who buys even one copy of the Lost Angels Slimes is guilty of aiding and abetting liberalism.

[E Rocc]

Sorry, but failing to kiss Ariel Sharon's fundament on demand does not constitute "pro-Palestinian" bias.

-Eric

[putupon]

Threaten to boycott the advertisers.

[who knows what evil?]

1,000 subscribers? That's certainly a GOOD start...

[mgc1122]

LOL! Thanks for posting.

It's a good start, but you won't get their attention until you approach the 25,000 mark. Even then, the libs running the paper are too arrogant and proud to print anything contrary to their agenda so they'd rather go bust ... which is "ok" with me too.

[norton]

Enlightenment comes very - very - slowly to some people.

I cannot remember when the Times was NOT a miserable font of leftist tripe,
a time shen it was NOT eager to praise WJC or to trash any living or dead Republican.

I won't even steal a copy someone else left out on the rack.

My local rag has better crosswords and, since it is far lighter on news, less liberal crap to wade through.

So, I'd like to welcome a thousand members of the L.A. Jewish community back into the real world,
wish you'd noticed thirty years ago when it was someone else's war.

[Drango]

Way Cool...makes a FReeper proud to see results like these. More people need to affirmativly boycott the mainstream press. I dropped my subscription to the SF Chronicle about 5 years ago.

[who knows what evil?]

The Times said about 1,000 subscriptions had been suspended, one-tenth of 1 percent of the paper's total daily circulation of slightly more than 1 million.

1 MILLION people actually read this POS? Ignorance is bliss, I guess. Oh, well...1,000 down, 999,000 to go..."let's roll!"

[WillaJohns]

About 1,000 people have suspended their subscriptions to the Los Angeles Times, claiming the newspaper's coverage of unrest in the Middle East is biased toward the Palestinians.

Note they say "suspended" their subscriptions. Apparently the AP got this story by the group that has "suspended" their subscriptions. Note they haven't CANCELED them.

These people will continue to subscribe to the LA Times even if it spouts Marxism (oh, that's right, it already does). More smoke and mirrors signifying nothing. This is just another story by the media about the media.

[mewzilla]

What took'em so long??? Sheesh.

[Cicero]

It's a good sign. Many Jews have been willing to go along with the media's Israel-bashing and Jew/Arab moral equivalence because it's all coming from the left, and their sympathies have always been with the left.

But now, I think, the leftist media have started going too far, and to speak too openly, and a few Jews may start to wake up. This is very encouraging, a small but positive straw in the wind.

Many leftist intellectuals since the 1960s have been deeply antisemitic, but have used their usual language tricks to cover it over and pretend that anti-Israel isn't the same thing as antisemitic. (Yes, they are different, but not THAT different, and one easily runs into the other.)

Now the pretence is coming unglued. Maybe the ADL and the secular Jews will finally wake up and see where the real danger lies--on the closed-minded, intolerant left, not the right.

[Piquaboy]

New York Slimes and Los Angeles slimes are same, same. What is it about the coasts that make them liberal mecca's?

[eureka!]

May they lose 20,000 more....

[monkeyshine]

Oh man! These people are so behind, so slow to anger, so slow to recognize evil.

The LA times is a dangerous newspaper, it's an indoctrination device for leftists.

The paper is entirely unethical. They have run favorable articles in exchange for advertising. They have fired longtime staff and replaced them with cheaper younger leftists bred in the new school of totalitarian leftism.

They make no pretention at "balance" or "fairness" and have no regard for our Constitutional democracy. Their editorial page has literally come out against the 2nd Amendment and for the banning of personal firearms ownership.

I cancelled my subscription to the LA times 3 years ago, about a month after I found Free Republic.

And yes, they have always been biased against Israel -- not because of anti-semitism, but because of their lefist ideology that forces them to side with the poorer people in a conflict, even though (or in spite of the fact that) the poorer people are acting immorally and are being funded, incited and taught by very rich, powerful interests.

[Shermy]

From the internet I've read it. It's true, the top articles are fantasy pieces written by some women, one being "wilkinson" which in every way push the Arafat-apologist stand, then claim "fairness." As for their opinion pieces, they are juvenile and emotive, on both sides. Typical is the ""war of Annihilation" and "war crimes" lefty-imperialist slants. It's an inferior publication, and the writing is pretentious and snobby-lefty.

[Jhoffa_]

BWAHAHAHAHA!!

Oh-Oh..

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAAH!!! aha..

BWAHAHAHAHA!!

You know, it's about time for free market forces to have an effect on the media. For years the leftleaning viewpoint dominated and people simply had no real options.

Now, with the emergence of Fox and Limbaugh people are starting to realize that there really is a different product out there and that they do have a decision to make.