Posted on 07/08/2002 5:26:53 PM PDT by gcruse
They're all going to ride that beast right into the ground as the American people turn to them less and less and ad revenues continue dropping. They won't even notice it until the day they come to work and find the place boarded up.
One of the worst I have ever seen
is the San Francisco Chronicle.
They would take an AP story,
print it as received, but give it
a headline that serves leftist purposes
but is either not the focus of the
article, or cannot logically be
derived from it. They were just
flat out lying. It was shocking.
True, as far as it goes. But we also have to ask who made a market for these "good little Bolsheviks" by hiring them? And why?
Shimmer dissolve to the sixties. My guess is that the tidy little family empires that published these papers bore progeny who were ripe for and swallowed whole the same political line -- whether in J-school or B-school.
So that, when the young reporters were seeking the face of evil, the young publisher was the first to cry, "Guilty!" And the first thing he/she did was fire the "hard-boiled, uneducated managing editors, who were without compassion for, or understanding of, the New Ethics".
Just one more thing we can thank the sixties for...
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