Man bites newspaper- newspaper problems traced to Richard Nixon (Dinosaur Media DeathWatch™)

Boston Phoenix ^ | April 14, 2009 | Steven Stark

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

It goes way back before that. They slaughtered Joe McCarthy and Barry Goldwater. They first tried to get Nixon in 1952.

Exactly.

[Huskrrrr]

You raise some good points. It seems to me that growing up in the Midwest in the sixties I remember reading the Des Moines Register and other dailies and beleiving that most reporting was based on facts and not just quotes from “anonymous sources”. My government class in eighth grade was a study in the Constitution and the three branches of the federal government. At no time did my teacher let her own personnel political beliefs slip into the lectures. I know this is a little off topic but I seem to remember more objectivity in general back in the sixties, even though much political unrest surrounded all of us.

[hinckley buzzard]

But without the legacy of Richard Nixon and Spiro Agnew, the history and future of American journalism might be very different.

I nominate the late President Richard Nixon for a retroactive award as Person of the Decade for the '70s. Who knew...his Legacy lives after him.

[abb]

Take a look at this.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/15/business/media/15brill.html?_r=1&ref=technology
Media Executives Plan Online Service to Charge for Content

http://www.paidcontent.org/entry/419-brill-crovitz-and-hindery-team-up-to-solve-news-cash-woes-with-journali/
Brill, Crovitz, Hindery Launch E-Commerce Venture For News Business

[Milhous]

Agnew attacked a "small band of network commentators" who, he charged, were a "tiny and closed fraternity of privileged men, elected by no one."

Half-wit neglects to mention Agnew's "nattering nabobs of negativism" money quote.

One of the great "successes" of the modern conservative movement has been the extent to which it has discredited and delegitimized mainstream journalism.

That's right baby, you remind everyone that conservatism remains the 800 pound gorilla in the room despite koolaid drinking hallucinations about how "we're all socialist's now."

[abb]

Take a look at this. Back when newspapers tried - and succeeded for a time - shutting up radio news.

The New Orleans Press-Radio War and Huey P. Long, 1922-1936

http://etd.lsu.edu/docs/available/etd-0711102-133745/unrestricted/Collins_thesis.pdf

[nomad]

Great angle!Push this and drive a finale stake in that ghouls black heart.Turn liberals against themselves.