Posted on 09/03/2008 1:23:29 AM PDT by MartinaMisc
To hell with the New York Times and the Washington Post.
It took a while to make this decision, but I’ve finally decided to stop reading these savagely biased publications. With the exception of William Kristol and David Brooks, there’s virtually nothing worth reading on the Times’ op-ed page—and those columns, along with the columns of other occasional conservative contributions such as Matthew Continetti and Ramesh Ponnuru, can easily be accessed through such sites as Robinson and Long. As for the Post, conservative op-ed columnists George Will and Charles Krauthammer can be found on such online outlets as Townhall.
There was a time when the “progressive” bias of the Times and the Post was somewhat tolerable, but that time has long passed. The treatment that John McCain’s running mate, Sarah Palin, received in both papers was the proverbial final straw. The Times and the Post are now to intelligent Americans what hip-hop is to an eighty-year-old retiree.
It wasn’t that long ago when the Times and the Post presented a vision that one could respect, even if one disagreed with it. No longer. Both papers are now super-saturated with gloom-and-doom coverage of the economy, the bleakest interpretation possible of foreign events, and a raging damnation of all things conservative and Republican.
A decade ago, Maureen Dowd and Frank Rich wrote columns on the Times’ op-ed page that were certainly liberal in tone, but that non-liberals could read without being repulsed. Non-liberals haven’t been able to do that in quite a while. Dowd and Rich are now so filled with contempt for non-“progressives” that they don’t care about preaching to anyone besides the choir. The Dems on the Post’s op-ed page aren’t any different.
(Excerpt) Read more at humanevents.com ...
There is a reason why their circulation and ad revenues are down.
Ping.
The N.Y. Times is steadidly dying as a once great newspaper under the oversight of Pinch Shultzberger. I predict that soon it will rank somewhere along the line of the “Village Voice” in subscription appeal.
If Palin’s presence on the GOP ticket isn’t enough of a reason for conservatives to vote for McCain, they should consider this: electing McCain will, in effect, punish the Times and the Post for their misdeeds.
A McCain victory over Barack Obama, will cast Obama’s admirers at the Post and Times into a pit of humiliation and shame—a pit from which they will never fully extract themselves.
By defeating Obama, conservatives will fill with misery the arrogant minds of those who run both foul newspapers.
As John Travolta put it in Broken Arrow, “Ain’t it cool?”
They’re committing suicide in this election cycle.
I don't know if this is the time when people realize this and ignore them, but if not, it is the last election the MSM will control. I hope 2006 was it, but it seems clear that they helped annoint Obama, and if McCain doesn't get a big bounce this week, after Palin and all, I fear the worst.
Not trying to be a downer, but...I'm not feeling upbeat as I was after the Palin pick. I think she's the right choice, but the MSM are SO savage, and persistent, that I fear Obama's gonna make it.
If Palin’s presence on the GOP ticket isn’t enough of a reason for conservatives to vote for McCain, they should consider this: electing McCain will, in effect, punish the Times and the Post for their misdeeds. A McCain victory over Barack Obama, will cast Obama’s admirers at the Post and Times into a pit of humiliation and shame—a pit from which they will never fully extract themselves. By defeating Obama, conservatives will fill with misery the arrogant minds of those who run both foul newspapers. As John Travolta put it in Broken Arrow, “Ain’t it cool?”
Not to be blasphemous, but in this case, vengeance is ours. With our vote, we can slap the taste out of the mouths of those who have smeared Palin, McCain, George W. Bush, Newt Gingrich, Ken Starr, Clarence Thomas, Ronald Reagan, Robert Bork and so many others who dared to disagree with the left’s vision. We can tell the Times and the Post that their influence is limited, that their power is restrained, that their words are worthless. We can foreclose upon the Fourth Estate, horrifying the media powers of New York and Washington with our firm support of McCain and Palin. We have the power to bring about real change, much to the dismay of the media entities that desire ersatz change. This November, let’s use that power; we’ll leave the Post and the Times looking bitter and sour.
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I stopped reading newspapers at least 10 years ago. Have not read any magazines such as Time, Newsweek, Fortune, US News, etc. for about 25 years. I get a couple of magazines now: The Weekly Standard and Commentary.
I think the last time I read the NY Times, The New Yorker, Atlantic, etc. was about 1969. Haven’t watched “nightly news” on ABC, CBS, NBC for 25 years. I never watch CNN, never watch MSNBC, can barely stomach CNBC. Never watch Bloomberg. Fox has a new business and stock market station which is decent.
The media is nothing but sensationalism, lies, distortions and left wing bias. I’d called journalists prostitutes, but they are actually far far worse than that. It’s easy to get all kinds of news on the internet in just a few minutes a day, without being subjected to a constant barrage of liberal, socialist crap.
Us Magazine doesn’t matter? Are you kidding me? You know how many women walk past that magazine every day at the SuperMarket? You should be protesting that magazine’s home office 24/7 if you were really concerned about what’s about to happen to your conservative Christian candidate. They have decided she can’t stay.
I am so angry about the favoritism....its like living in Russia....
There is a reason why the 9/11 hijackers never considered crashing their planes into either the New York Times building or that of the Washington Post, after all:
Why would they attack their natural ALLIES?
I hope to live long enough to see the day when both of those leftist yellow rags go bankrupt, their buildings sold and turned into Wal-Mart or Target super-stores.
They think if Obama wins that will help stop their slide and improve their business situation.
They thought the same thing when it was Bush against Kerry. Then Bush won and their situation got worse. Now they are hysterically desperate.
Fits me to a tee!
And I don’t watch TV either except for football.
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