Posted on 01/23/2011 2:44:24 AM PST by Scanian
Like an addict vowing to give up booze or heroin, Washington Post writer Dana Milbank is organizing readers to vow to not read about Sarah Palin for the next month. Kristinn Taylor and Andreea Shea King write in Big Journalism:
"The Post has picked up the call initiated this morning by Post columnist Dana Milbank, adding a Twitter link on the column page. The link generates a message to be sent from a Twitter member's page that reads, 'I'm making February a Palin-free month. Will you join me?'
"The Post added the Twitter link to Milbank's column this afternoon, several hours after running and pulling a Washington Post online poll about boycotting Sarah Palin news coverage. The poll initially accompanied The Post's Milbank op-ed but was pulled within hours of publication at WashingtonPost.com."
This is pathetic, but at least Milbank recognizes that he and other journos are addicted to attacking Sarah, and that it is counter-productive.
Meanwhile, without any use of twitter or any organized campaign, readers are boycotting the WaPo:
"Post readership continues to plummet as daily circulation fell 10.7% during the first six months of last year. Its flagship Sunday edition fell 9.5%. Readers are abandoning the Post in droves in the nation's capital."
Guess which boycott will succeed.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
“I’m not an alcoholic. I can quit any time I want, as long as I want…”
Bet you can’t.
LOL crack addicts are going to boycott their dealers too.
Trickle Down Ratings?
When my son was very little, he would close his eyes everytime he had to get a shot.
“Guess if you can not see it it does not hurt.”
These lefties are entertaining to say the least.
What I’d prefer to see...is the Post just start an entire page dedicated to what the politicians said...quote for quote...without any added useless valued attached by words from a Post writer/reporter. Just pick the 32 best quotes of the day and lay them for the reader to quietly read and observe himself.
The Post ought to then use their talent to take on issues alone, and avoid attaching issues to faces. I think most readers would prefer that kind of atmosphere.
But, the Post has been on a mission to dump half its readership by 2015, and I think they will eventually be successful.
Yepper - How many alcoholics does it take to change a lightbulb? Only one, but the lightbulb has to want to change...
Then I guess no one will be buying wapo
“I won’t do it. I’ll ignore Palin for a whole month . . .
“I’m going to read the paper, scan Internet headlines, and just SKIP the ones that say ‘Palin.’
“What?! She said ‘Blood libel?!’ That demands a response. . . what ELSE did she say?”
This is like asking Wile E. Coyote to ignore the Roadrunner (mee-meep!); he can’t do it, despite getting hoisted on a dozen previous petards of his own diabolical mind. Or like a pack of dogs to ignore a porcupine; they can’t, despite having had painful experiences in the past.
It’s comical. She’s the Continental Divide. She’s also their Tar Baby nightmare.
Most people buy the Washington Post on Sunday for the Comics page.
If they dont want people to read Palin stories they should stop printing them.
SHE TURNED ME INTO A NEWT!
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I got betta.
Isn’t this kind of boycott a violation of the anti-trust laws? I know that there is a provision in the anti-trust laws that allows CONSUMERS to boycott, but the WaPo is not a consumer. Seems like they could be setting themselves up for treble damages. Pity.
Crikey, if all 12 of their readers boycott Sarah Palin, who will they go after next?!?
The irony. The delicious and lovely irony.
And the most beautiful part is that it is irony completely lost on the dunderhead liberals themselves.
Whistling past the graveyard. Who reads the WaPo any way?
“I won’t do it. I’ll ignore Palin for a whole month . . .I'm tempted to post Palin news in comment sections of the compost... but I don't want to give their site the hits.“I’m going to read the paper, scan Internet headlines, and just SKIP the ones that say ‘Palin.’
“What?! She said ‘Blood libel?!’ That demands a response. . . what ELSE did she say?”
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