Sowed the seeds of their own destructio by squanderi g their only stock in trade: their credibility.
The Denver Post is a continuing joke. Peter Boyles (a local Denver talk show host) is having a grand time exposing how the Post assisted in covering up a scandal involving the mayor. (Denver is liberal, so we know by definition that the government is corrupt). Their editorials are sources of constant amusement. The Post did its normal (e.g. horrible) job making excuses when the Denver Police Chief (friend of the major, of course) did not allow his police to protect their own memorial when it was vandalized a while back. The cops had to stand behind locked doors and watch. Really.
The paper really is good only for the bottom of bird cages. Its demise cannot happen too soon.
But this is standard operating procedure under the dictatorship of the Proletariat. The Bourgeoisie must be brought to heel in a great class struggle which is manifestly a political struggle.
Unfortunately, America is throwing off Bolshevism, so they are out of luck.
“Even today, consider the incessant focus of the diminishing liberal print press on the plight of illegal aliens instead of American citizens.”
Have they forgotten that newspapers are a product and a service, both which must respond to public taste and the marketplace?
That is not entirely true, there was never a time that newspaper were not biased. But up until the end of WWII every city big and small had two or more newspapers. Many with names such as the Daily Democrat or Daily Republican. There was no doubt where there bias was. People bought papers that supported their views.
The various papers kept each other “honest” or at least able to balance each other. The seed for the death of newspapers came after WWII when large companies began buying out newspapers until we are where we are today - almost all news papers today speak with one voice (certainly only one point of view).
The internet did not kill newspapers. The people involved in the news business killed newspapers. The internet just made it possible for no one to care if they all go out of business.
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I occasionally leaf through a Sunday paper at my mom’s, she still subscribes. There’s little of interest in there, even on Sunday. The paper itself is about the number of pages I recall a weekday edition being, the rest is an absolute pile of ads. The opinions section is mind-numbingly leftist. The slant is in every article, the only escape is the obituaries. This is a newspaper that was once printed twice daily. I sort of miss the ritual of fanning out a huge Sunday paper with a cup of coffee on Sunday morning, spending an hour or two reading interesting things. That doesn’t exist anymore as far as I can tell.
atheism + naturalism + materialism = subjectivism & relativism = anything goes & moral neutrality
If it's NYT or WaPo, I immediately dismiss the article as not worth the time investment, and move on to something else.
College journalism majors have been taught that advocacy, not objectivity, is the mainstay of their profession.
How to put yourself out of business and never be trusted in one easy act.
That would be so kool.