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 ...
Knowingly false rumors of scandal involving a 17-year-old girl's giving birth were given NATIONAL coverage
as fact
within 48 hours
and nobody being held to account.
This (and the all-points, all MSM savage, personal, orchestrated *assault* on a 17-year-old girl)
-- is why we need the "Fairness doctrine"
--applied to the MSM!!!
Half of the content of the New York Times, MSNBC, and CNN should be devoted to columns by FReepers.
Cheers!
Another fellow jumping from the Titanic and into the lifeboat. What took so long, Tucker? Was it the fish swimming in your cereal bowl?
If Gov. Palin and John McCain deliver knock out speeches, I wonder how long before the democrat media will start taking about their speech writers.
They have brought this up time and time again whenever Bush has made major speeches and I suspect it will be brought up again with McCain and Palin. The objective is, of course, to show everyone that their words are not their own.
So far, I haven’t heard any such reference made about obama’s speeches.
I’d excise Ramesh Ponnuru from your list of reputable conservative columnists. The guy removed himself from serious consideration as an intelligent human being when he wrote that Wasilla was more populous than Delaware.
He was off by a factor of a hundred.
It doesn’t really matter how he made the mistake.. anyone who can put the words ‘Wasilla has more people than Delaware’ on paper no longer needs to be listened to on any subject.
I have been posting here for YEARS that all conservatives should quit buying the NYT WP and Philly Inquirer etc—and quit watching ABC CBS NBC CNN MSNBC etcTheir circulation would take a nose dive and the advertising would drop maybe then they would get the message
I stopped YEARS ago and when ever I get called on the phone about subscriptions I tell them exactly why I don’t buy their rags
You really do live in cartoonland, don't you? You deny the power of advertising and marketing from the same ignorance African warlords display when they rely on a charm to protect them from bullets... their inability to "see" the threat translates into a belief luck can change a fixed trajectory.
George Allen was the heir apparent until he gave the MSM what they needed to spook your political herd of "free-thinkers."
In the end, the candidate who was smart enough to ride out the election conditions as they were has been selling out his own party to garner favor with the media commissars for two decades won--the others, who didn't know how to win, lost.
There. Fixed it for you.
I don't know of anything more tragic than someone who refuses to connect the dots, except perhaps someone vapid enough to get real satisfaction from turning an off the cuff quip into a narrative.
Actually, after the media's performance this week, if Obama gets elected, things will be golden for conservatives.
It will be plain for all but the Left to see that the media was in the tank for Obama this cycle.
And so from that it follows that anything they print about an Obama administration that's positive can be taken as an out-and-out lie for their man.
There would be many unintended events flowing forth from that certainty.
I need not bother reply, since reading your own parade of MSM-approved cliches is what you really want, not a discussion. You go entertain yourself, now, the rest of us will be in Reality.
Somehow, your delicate sensibilities are less than convincing considering your opening comment to me was "Please, I have no time for you conspiracy loons."
Please, I have no time for you conspiracy loons.
Hey, whatever you need to feel good about running away. I don't mind a bit.
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