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101. #101
     On August 11th, 2008 at 10:27 pm, almiller said:

     Impoverishing America intellectually is one of the aims of the left. I don’t think that the left really cares about what they are doing. If publishers want to become relevant again they are going to have to report the news and quit trying so hard to shape opinion in the guise of reporting.

     I do think that there may be a place for Michelle Malkin, Pajamas Media, Townhall etc. and others to associate in some way to develop real reporting capacity. The network needs to grow. I am not so worried about the national scene for now but I do think that there are severe threats to democratic government in our cities and local governments brought on by a dearth of real reporting.

102. #102
     On August 11th, 2008 at 11:52 pm, von Rum said:

     For all of the print newspapers and magazines which may support the left there are also those that support th right. The fact that hard reporting is being hurt by newspapers going under should concern us all. A great deal of the content on the internet that we all make so much use of is supplied by those working the streets still supported by and paid by those very newspapers. If they go the way of the dodo then who will do the reporting? Drudge? When did he or anyone like him last get on a plane, make the phone calls, stake out a news site? Will it be the bloggers at home in their underwear?

     I hardly think so. We still need the old time hard reporting provided only by those with physical buildings, paper, locations and reporters.

     von Rum

103. #103
     On August 12th, 2008 at 12:30 am, DannoJyd said:

     I do not care.

     What we are witnessing is the market forces working, and the reason these papers are headed for bankruptcy is because their product is mostly worthless.

     If the owners really care enough to try to save these institutions of shame filled liberalism they can start by hiring new editors, and those editors can try using more conservative writers.

     In a nut shell, they did this to themselves, and it is up to them to correct their mistakes.

104. #104
     On August 12th, 2008 at 12:49 am, PrestoPundit - Greg Ransom said:

     What has earned its death will die, replaced by better things, and a variety of these.

105. #105
     On August 12th, 2008 at 12:50 am, RetFireman said:

     I stopped receiving the local paper here over a year ago, and I gotta tell you…the only thing I miss is the comics section. Anything else I want that is written in the same light i can get from DU, HuffPo or any other Liberal conspiracy driven blog.

     I miss my daily “Get Fuzzy”.

106. #106
     On August 12th, 2008 at 7:02 am, pokenhorn said:

     The existing print media (and much of the electronic media) should disappear ASAP. They have deceived, dissembled, and abused the publc trust long enough. They are almost entirely agents of the world-wide LEFT. They hate our country, and they hate the notion of people living their lives, making their own decisions, and going their own way without close supervision from over-weening government. The qualities that draw people from all quarters of the world are the very characteristics our ‘press corps.’ despises.

107. #107
     On August 12th, 2008 at 9:01 am, Blaze said:

     On August 11th, 2008 at 6:05 pm, SpeakEasy said:
     On August 11th, 2008 at 4:34 pm, Blaze said:

     Our nation was built on the free flow of ideas made accessable to the masses by the printing press. It’s sad to see it abandoned instead of revitalized.
     Replace ‘printing press’ with ‘the internet’ in the above statement and I believe you will see the folly of your argument.

     Actually, the last time I checked, Al Gore had not invented the internet at the time the Federalist Papers were written. The printing press was an important tool in the Revolutionary War, and can be one in the current cultural “war” we are in.

     Despite popular belief, there are large segments of the population who do not have access or cannot use the internet to get information - such as the elderly and the poor. And there are segments who do not use the internet to gather information. Yes, times are changing. But it is unfortunate that the newspapers cannot or will not adapt to the times (including throwing out the bias).

108. #108
     On August 12th, 2008 at 9:40 am, long_haired_conservative said:

     I think it would make for an interesting experiment for some prominent left-leaning newspaper to go one year showing due diligence to the spirit of fair reporting, and see what happens to their circulation. Problem is, no liberal publisher would survive the scorn from his fellow cocktail party sophists.

     p.s. My first post here…. thanks M!

109. #109
     On August 12th, 2008 at 11:14 am, Peet said:

     On August 11th, 2008 at 2:45 pm, Dimsdale said: Springfield Republican

     Haha… I remember them. They hired a telemarketing firm that kept calling back “hang-ups” and harrassing them. Ripped us off because they kept delivering after the subscription expired - to a home with a “SOLD” sign next to the paper tube - then DEMANDED money. Bunch of crooks.

     Now, I’m gonna date myself here: Back in the 60s, my H.S. english class was given an assignment to write a news article - anything we wanted. The article had to include the four “W”s; Who, What, Where, and When. There was no “how” and DEFINITELY no “Why” back then. “How” just didn’t exist (probably too hard to confirm?) and “Why” was STRICTLY forbidden because it was interpretive. “Why” would result in points off the assignment. Also resulting in points off was any use of connotative words where denotative would do. We were to stick to verifyable facts (4 Ws) and use only descriptive language - keep emotion out of it.

     I miss the “National Observer” — went out of print in the mid-seventies. It was a news-weekly on newsprint, no glossy pages, minimal photos, little or no advertising, and all the opinion content was on pages CLEARLY marked opinion. There was more info in that paper than a week’s worth of the local rag.

     P.

110. #110
     On August 12th, 2008 at 2:32 pm, wckelly60 said:

     On August 12th, 2008 at 9:01 am, Blaze said:
     On August 11th, 2008 at 6:05 pm, SpeakEasy said:
     On August 11th, 2008 at 4:34 pm, Blaze said:

     Our nation was built on the free flow of ideas made accessable to the masses by the printing press. It’s sad to see it abandoned instead of revitalized.
     Replace ‘printing press’ with ‘the internet’ in the above statement and I believe you will see the folly of your argument.
     Actually, the last time I checked, Al Gore had not invented the internet at the time the Federalist Papers were written. The printing press was an important tool in the Revolutionary War, and can be one in the current cultural “war” we are in.

     Despite popular belief, there are large segments of the population who do not have access or cannot use the internet to get information - such as the elderly and the poor. And there are segments who do not use the internet to gather information. Yes, times are changing. But it is unfortunate that the newspapers cannot or will not adapt to the times (including throwing out the bias).

     Lots of people couldn’t read in the 1780s, but that didn’t stop the 85 essays of the Federalist Papers from circulating. Hell, lots of people can’t read today. This doesn’t mean that we can’t transition more media to non-print sources. How does local TV news do it?

111. #111
     On August 13th, 2008 at 6:32 am, herself said:

     Relevance is an important word. If the media cannot learn to be relevant to their audience they must fail. Attempts to keep them alive are foolish. Adopting extremely biased one-sided views arbitrarily chops away half a newspaper’s readership. Continued extremely biased reporting starts to sound like intellectual masturbation, which is off-putting even to most liberal readers.
      
     I don’t want the newspapers to die. BUT, I will not do a bloody thing to try to preserve the LATimes until their reporting begins to sound a little less like their staff is composed of a collection of jerks who are my sworn enemies.
      
     {^_^}

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