The Nuge vs. The Waco Trib (Ted Nugent Fired)

Texas Monthly ^ | August 16, 2009 | Evan Smith

[abb]

Interesting.

[chippewaman]

Just goes to show you that liberals don’t want any opinions which are not their own. Who needs the Waco newspaper anyway? Can’t wait to see Ted Nugent at the “Friends of America Rally” on Labor Day in Holden, WV. Hank Williams Jr. and Sean Hannity are also scheduled to appear. It should be big. The official website is: friendsofamericarally.com

[WorkerbeeCitizen]

I can’t believe the Nuge wouldn’t bow to the demands of the left. /sarc

[Richard Kimball]

I appreciate Ted's viewpoints, but the guy who bought the newspaper IS engaging in freedom of the press. As a columnist, you don't have the right to print your opinion, you have the right to print your editor's opinion.

The Waco Tribune Herald has no obligation to print any viewpoint with which it disagrees. Ted, OTOH, is free to find a media outlet that is more conducive to his opinion.

If the pressure is from the government, that's a freedom of the press issue. If the pressure is from your editor, that's Tuesday. I speak as one who has written for several newspapers, magazines, etc. (nothing major.)

Editors catch the flack for columnists. If Peggy Hill writes that ammonia and bleach are a great cleaning combination (don't do that, BTW) the editor and the magazine get the complaints.

[Tribune7]

If I were the Nuge, I wouldn't sweat it. I don't give 90 percent of dailies two years and that's being generous.

As far as I know he is a decent enough guy, but in my opinion, is politically naive and very wrong, even dangerous for America.

That's my opinion too. Obama's problem is that he has been badly miseducated.

And I would be very surprised if Obama can even come close to articulating what Hayek or Friedman or Adam Smith believed.

I would be equally surprised if Obama ever even read the Bible with anything close to an open mind.

I honestly think Obama's world view is shaped by 1970s sitcoms and dope-session discussions with Marxist intellectual wannabes .

[sr4402]

Papers get their money from Advertising - pure and simple. When papers are in the red (as they have been for a long time) yet go on for years, who do you think has been proping them up??

Papers that support higher taxes?
Papers that support illegals?
Papers that support government intrutions into our lives (like Cap and Trade and Obamacare)?
Papers the suburbs and countryside doesn’t like?

Answer - lots and lots of Lib/progressive funds.

[Tribune7]

I appreciate Ted's viewpoints, but the guy who bought the newspaper IS engaging in freedom of the press.

Nobody is saying otherwise, although we are equally free to try to get them to change their mind by pointing out their hypocrisy to differing views, double-standards with regard to dissent and by canceling subscriptions.

[abb]

The Waco Tribune was recently bought by local people.

http://www.wacotrib.com/news/content/news/stories/2009/07/16/07162009wacrobinsonWEB.html

Robinsons to buy Waco Tribune-Herald

[kevinm13]

The Nuge is right as always. He should be syndicated throughout the country so that lefties get some truth. Keep fighting for the truth and the right to express yourself Ted!

[La Lydia]

The only people who enjoy absolute freedom of the press are those who own newspapers, the publishers. If Ted wants to have his unrestricted say, he should have bought the Waco paper, which I am sure was going for a bargain price.

[PLD]

If Ted is not reinstated the Waco Tribune will go down the same road it was headed..and that was dead everyone was getting tired of all the liberal crap now it seems it is worse..So good bye Tribune I hope you picked a good cemetery lot to bury your paper..

[abb]

The only people who enjoy absolute freedom of the press are those who own newspapers, the publishers.

That was true up until the internet came along.

[PGR88]

Ted Nugent’s articles themselves probably have 10X the readership of this newspaper.

[Lancey Howard]

BUMP for excellence!

[Richard Kimball]

I thought Ted's title to his column did make the claim:

I’ll Take Freedom of Speech and Freedom of the Press for $100, Alex by Ted Nugent

BTW, as to the Robinsons buying the Trib, shrug. I didn't read it before, and I won't read it now.

[Lancey Howard]

Ted Nugent’s articles themselves probably have 10X the readership of this newspaper.

Agreed. I have a feeling the maroon who made the decision to fire Ted is going to get an avalanche of letters, including many requests to "cancel my subscription".

[Big_Harry]

In the words of another great American, “Kill ‘em and Grill ‘em!”

[stevie_d_64]

They’ve been Nuge-itized!!!

[piytar]

Has the Waco trib hurt Nuge’s exposure level one iota? Nope.

Will this hurt the trib’s circulation? Probably.

But The Party is always right! The Ministry of Truth and its organs must see to that. All must love Big Brother Obama!

/SPIT

[La Lydia]

There is a significant difference between freedom of the “press” and freedom of expression. True, the Internet has vastly expanded freedom of expression. But newspapers still have publishers who hire and fire the help, and who determine what goes on the editorial page and what is printed in the news section (and the advertisements, for that matter.) Newspapers, and their publishers, still control the Associated Press and other wire services. Similar executives control network news on TV and on the radio. Ted can go on writing his column any way he wants, and send it out on the Internet, and many of us will read it with glee. It just won’t be published on paper with ink in Waco any longer. The only people who enjoy absolute freedom of the press are those who own newspapers, the publishers.