UPDATED: Newspapers are dying because they're so liberal....
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UPDATED: Newspapers are dying because they're so liberal....
....except when they're conservative.
Maybe ideology doesn't have so much to do with what's killing newspapers after all.
UPDATE: Great history here of media liberalism in the 2000s (h/t Atrios), such as:
And that other supposedly ferociously liberal daily, The Washington Post, how did it cover the crucial months prior to the Iraq war? Basically, the paper couldn't stop publishing pro-war editorials -- 26 in all between September 2002 and February 2003. As for its columnists and contributors, it was like a neoconservative open casting call as the Post flooded its readers with an avalanche of war cheerleaders.
The pro-war march at times seemed to fog the paper's news judgment. In September 2002, Sen. Ted Kennedy made a passionate, provocative, and newsworthy speech raising all sorts of doubts about the war. It was a speech in which the liberal senator warned against virtually every major shortfall that eventually plagued the post-invasion operation. Yet the prophetic speech garnered just one sentence -- 36 words total -- of coverage from the Post, which in 2002 printed more than a thousand articles and columns, totaling perhaps 1 million words about Iraq.
Did I mention that posting -- unlike the recent snow -- will be extremely light this week. As it should be. It's Christmas week! It's not like they're going to overhaul the American health care system or anything. Use this as an open thread to discuss whatever's on your mind -- not just the media's liberal bias. Like....the Eagles are good? What up with that? And are you still "electrified" by AI? Did I not warn you?
I cannot wait for these liberal rags who worship Obama to go under.— msvndy
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Where's Didderbops??? Just an FYI DB the actual Sally Fields quote is "...I can't deny the fact that you like me, right now, you like me!"— bird11- Stop confusing liberalism with just being informed. It's not like newspapers hire hippie leftist commie socialists as a business practice. They hire people obsessed with facts who don't mind getting paid $40K.— jreese
“How about the shorter attention span of Americans? Stories are "hot" for a couple pf days and disppear.” I see, whatever the media does is a reflection on my (I’m an American) tastes and wants. If they talk about some murder in the Pacific NW for six months or a golfer who cheats on his wife 24/7 it’s because I’m sooo interested.— Hamlet- Comment removed.
- Hey bryanc - it is also Yule. Don't forget the wiccans you self centered b@stard!— bird11
- Aw, thanks, guys!— katied01
"it is also Yule" . . . . . . . . It always was Yule, as adapted to the religion of the day. Until the Messiah produces his birth certificate, we'll never really know the exact date of Christmas.- Comment removed.
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- TPS wrote: "Well, pj loved it, anyway. Then again, pj also loved the post where byranc made it completely obvious that he can't add (in his mindless rambling about a pollster "manipulating" data, LOL!) - so he isn't exactly a stickler for accuracy." TPS, I never posted about byranc here. You aren't exactly a stickler for accuracy.— pj katauskas
- "Until the Messiah produces his birth certificate, we'll never really know the exact date of Christmas." The way they keep moving Christmas up every year I'm sure we will be celebrating by August 4th in the not too distant future.— bird11
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