Posted on 05/06/2011 7:34:44 PM PDT by Salvavida
So, even liberals want the unbiased facts.
Years ago in CT everyone got a NYT delivered to their door. You would hear a wap wap wap early each morning as they threw them. Now - nothing. It is rare that you see a blue plastic wraped NYT laying in someone’s driveway.
My local county paper, which is very small, has been thin as a dime for years, mostly because there are no advertisements and no ad revenue; no real real estate section, no auto sales advertisements. At one point last summer, I remember seeing papers with almost no advertisements. I don’t know how that works?
My children go to a private school and the skilled nursing facility that I work in (since I was bumped out of my own job market in ‘09) both have piles of paper dumped off every day, which go unread ~ unopened. The papers go from the delivery to the offices to the recycling bin.
Obviously, these delivery programs are part of an effort to mask a horribly declined circulation rate. So that the paper can continue to charge for a higher revenue. Every other small town paper probably participates in similar programs. I have to wonder when the law of diminishing returns may kick in with the cost of gas and paper running higher everyday.
I always disliked the WaPo for its political slant, but I occasionally bought it from time to time. After Jim Webb was elected in ‘06 in the race against George Allen for Virginia’s Senate seat ~ with news stories that amounted to tens of thousands of dollars in free advertising for Webb, the whole “macaca” thing, Allen’s mother being a jew ~ I promised that the Post would never see the inside of my home. It has not.
For me, at that time, the Post went from being a relatively benign left leaning rag to being a propaganda organization that influenced the outcome of the election.
At the same time the Washington Times has cut back. I look for the paper online, but can not purchase it at a local convenience store anymore. When I visit my in-laws in Delaware. I see the Times on news stands and I always pick-up a copy ~ much to the chagrin of my liberal, Post purchasing, ex-hippy mother in law.
That i what I don’t get.
Their bias and lies has hurt their business and yet they still cannot just report the facts, instead they feel theyb have to protect the left.
WHY?
All I want is facts no matter how bad or good it is to either side and let me decide on what I agree or disagree with.
Look at the white house having a meeting of cross dressers for the first time in history, will the media report this and ask questions, hell no because they know it hurts their cause but are quick to point out how Obama met the seals etc
Just report both not just what helps one side
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