That's because as conservatives, we want to be informed about what the other side is up to, not merely spoon-fed rah-rah articles from publications on our side of the fence. It's the left's refusal to read, watch or listen to any information or argumentation that doesn't already conform to their dogma that makes them so ineffectual and - to be blunt - stupid, ignorant and uninformed. Give me posts from the Voice, The Nation and The New Republic any day ... as long as it's only a part of my reading habits, not the sum of them.
...not to mention being a mirror of the immoral, drug infested, crime-ridden area they reside in--NYC.
Dude, what decade are you in? Dinkins isn't mayor any more. Some guy came in called Giuliani - you may have heard the name - and cleaned up the place inside of a few months.