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GONE WITH THE WIND - 2006

"There was a land of Publishers and Editors called the Newspaper Business... Here in this pretty world Journalism took its last bow... Here was the last ever to be seen of Reporters and their Enablers, of Anonymous Sources and of Stringers... Look for it only in books, for it is no more than a dream remembered. A Civilization Gone With the Wind..."

With apologies to Margaret Mitchell...

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Raoul's First Law of Journalism
BIAS = LAYOFFS

[HarleyLady27]

If private citzens bought out the newspapers, like a group of Republicans, would that be ok????

I would like to find a national known newspaper and have a bunch of us freepers run it, do the editorials etc...so we could get our message out....

[2banana]

Wonder how long these "rescuers" with "deep pockets" will put up with losing millions of dollars a year, paying union workers up to $70/hour and putting out a paper that essentially calls the owners evil people because they have some wealth...

[ModelBreaker]

Ted Venetoulis shares this view. He's a former Baltimore County executive heading up a group of local business leaders angling to buy The Baltimore Sun from the Tribune Co. He recently commented that "this may not be the best business venture around" but "this is part civic responsibility."

Great big buckets of lefty money are about to be flushed. Buy all the newspapers and let 'em be as left as they secretly want--it won't get a lot worse than today. The lefter they go, the broker they get. And that's money that won't go to 527's.

[DBrow]

"journalism's watchdog role "

What the heck is this referring to? Who gave journalism this role?

[relictele]

journalism's watchdog role is in danger.

In danger from the journalists themselves. The profligate spending of tax dollars on every pie-in-the-sky idea is treated as the highest form of altruism regardless of newspaper editorial slant.