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Aint it great to watch the print media die?
The Collins Report ^ | December 12th, 2008 | Kevin “Coach” Collins

Posted on 12/12/2008 5:16:56 AM PST by jmaroneps37

I wasn’t alive in 1945 when the news came that Adolph Hitler went room temperature, but I know there was great joy across America when we heard it. Hitler was an enemy. Joy was a fitting response to his death.

Ordinarily the death of anyone should be sad news, but a particularly vicious enemy’s death is cause for an exception. The impending death of the print media in America is such an exception. The media’s allegiance to itself instead of the truth or - God forbid- America is very clear.

During the Civil War General William Sherman complained, ”I hate newspapermen…. I regard them as spies….”

In World War II the Baltimore Sun revealed the Navy had cracked the Japanese Navy’s code which put us all in danger.

In 1968 in spite of our major military and psychological victory over the Viet Cong at the Tet Offensive, Walter Cronkite proclaimed “We have lost the war.” His traitorous lie cost thousands of American lives.

Remember that skunk Bernard Shaw’s refusal to be debriefed because he “didn’t want to take sides” during the First Gulf War?

The media stabbed us in the back by doing no examinations of Barack Obama. They lied and hid what they knew and never asked Obama a hard question. They are now, but so what; the damage is done.

Now the news is the print side of America’s media is dying. Is this cause for celebration? You’re damned straight it is! Their lies and traitorous conduct earns them no sympathy.

If without being forced into it, they had occasionally told the truth about crooked Democrats instead of being their PR arm, maybe they wouldn’t be dying, but they never did. Bye bye fellas: don’t let the door hit you in the ass on the way out!

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Let's hope they die before the unFairness Doctrine can save most of the local liberal Democrat rags around the country.
1 posted on 12/12/2008 5:16:57 AM PST by jmaroneps37
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Aint it great to watch the print media die?

What's a print media? Never heard of 'em...

2 posted on 12/12/2008 5:20:36 AM PST by Onelifetogive (This space for rent.)
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To: jmaroneps37

Ordinarily,I would say yes, it is great to watch the print media die, but at the same time, I also notice that my country is dying with them. I wonder if the two deaths are related...


3 posted on 12/12/2008 5:21:38 AM PST by chris37
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....I really hate the way newspapers have turned on America....it’s good they’re getting kicked in the teeth....next, let’s torpedo the Hollywood Left....then go after the Academy....if nobody signs up for Lefty professors’s classes they’ll go broke too.


4 posted on 12/12/2008 5:25:49 AM PST by STONEWALLS
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Self-inflicted suicide. Watch for a few that stay in business, and notice that those few will decidedly NOT be a de facto wing of the DNC.

What's killing them isn't the medium as much as it's the message. Look how blatently they were in the tank for Obama this election cycle. With bias that obvious, who wouldn't look elsewhere for their factual news?

5 posted on 12/12/2008 5:28:03 AM PST by meyer (We are all John Galt)
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To: chris37

I wonder if the two deaths are related...

When the print media carried the banner for WJC in 1992 I unsubscribed from the the local rag and have not been a subscriber since. To say I despise these traitors is an understatement.


6 posted on 12/12/2008 5:28:14 AM PST by rj45mis
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To: jmaroneps37

“Ain’t it great to watch the print media die?

...until Obama bails them out.


7 posted on 12/12/2008 5:28:57 AM PST by SumProVita (Cogito, ergo...Sum Pro Vita. (Modified DeCartes))
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To: rj45mis

I can’t understand what makes a paper, such as the New York Times for example, so blatantly biased towards democrats. Both of this country’s major political parties are HIGHLY FLAWED. To assert that one party is so clearly better for the other is silly, they are both bad for us, but yet they promote one over the other as if it is good versus evil to them. One need only look to Chicago to see that the party of the main stream press is as corrupt as it can be, and it clearly does not deserve the fawning coverage that it routinely receives.


8 posted on 12/12/2008 5:33:11 AM PST by chris37
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To: rj45mis

Yesterday I noticed that USA today was now$1.00. Didn’t get it. Rochester’s daily is .75,Buffalos will follow soon.
Who needs any of them.


9 posted on 12/12/2008 5:34:29 AM PST by reefdiver (How do you keep the Conservative a Conservative, in Washington DC ?)
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To: Onelifetogive

I would rather see the Network TV liars die. They do far more damage. Total illiterates can watch TV, at least people who read the AP lies can read.

Fox, C-Span, and some of the History Channel are all that is worth watching now. The rest is total propaganda.


10 posted on 12/12/2008 5:36:35 AM PST by Texas Fossil
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To: jmaroneps37
Is this cause for celebration?

No. I could wish the news business was at least balanced, or non-biased, but I really don't want to see the print media die.

Too bad we don't have any choices, though. I would gladly subscribe to a conservative newspaper if there was one available.

So die they will, and it serves them right for trying to steer policy by printing lies.

11 posted on 12/12/2008 5:36:38 AM PST by Designer (We are SO scrood!)
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Better Red than Read; whoops, we’re Dead!


12 posted on 12/12/2008 5:40:39 AM PST by NonValueAdded (once you get to really know people, there are always better reasons than [race] for despising them.)
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To: Designer

I always enjoyed the morning newspaper with my coffee. Too bad they forgot that the editorial page was the place to express opinions rather than in news stories and headlines.


13 posted on 12/12/2008 5:46:46 AM PST by From The Deer Stand
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I miss the print media, the REAL print media. I like reading the paper. It’s so old-school now. I don’t like having to be hooked up to an electronic device to get my news. I miss sitting in my schleppy clothes, having some tea and reading the paper page-by-page. I can’t even remember the last time I was able to do it. It’s too big a health risk now.


14 posted on 12/12/2008 5:51:31 AM PST by austinaero
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To: jmaroneps37

“Ain’t it great to watch the print media die?”

Not at all.
For one thing, it’s a vital part of democracy.
For another, I never cheer when fellow citizens loose their jobs.


15 posted on 12/12/2008 5:53:21 AM PST by Bunkasaurus
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To: From The Deer Stand
"I always enjoyed the morning newspaper with my coffee."

Yea, me too. I would re-subscribe if the paper would just quit trying to feed me BS in every story.

16 posted on 12/12/2008 6:02:04 AM PST by Designer (We are SO scrood!)
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To: Bunkasaurus

Exactly. Along with the print media, quality of your news is dying. Now any schmuck with a cell phone camera is an “iReporter” on CNN. More and more papers are outsourcing to the Associated Press which often misreports simple facts in their articles. (Think Who, What, When, Where, Why. The basics)

With this apparently much celebrated death of liberal editors and columnists go the moderate, fair, and even conservative newswriters who, believe it or not, actually occupy newsrooms across the country. This is nothing to celebrated.


17 posted on 12/12/2008 6:04:23 AM PST by pjluke (thank you Mr. Kalashnikov!)
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To: chris37

Unfortunately, democracy cannot survive without a free, tough, independent, unbiased and inquisitive press. Of course, the article points out that we haven’t had this type of “press” for many years. I would not be surprised at all to find the loss of the press and the loss of our country completely intertwined.


18 posted on 12/12/2008 6:09:11 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: pjluke

Who, what, when, where are supposed to be the basics. WHY is only supposed to be added when it is required to clarify the others, not to support an opinion. “Some say” is another usually followed by an opinion.

You know, like the old “AIDS is spreading because of budget cuts” or “homelessness is on the rise due to Republican policies”.


19 posted on 12/12/2008 6:14:07 AM PST by JimRed ("Hey, hey, Teddy K., how many girls did you drown today?" TERM LIMITS, NOW AND FOREVER!)
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To: rj45mis
I wonder if the two deaths are related...

I think they are. It is all about the worship of the glories and consequences of expanding and exploding credit. It is the same lack of critical analysis that lead both to their demise.

I mourn the passing of print media with savvy editors who had a taste for what mattered and a tenacity to stay on important stories.

The editorial function in the flow of information is absolutely essential. Open access to all the nonsense that goes around is no access at all to what matters.

20 posted on 12/12/2008 6:14:15 AM PST by AndyJackson
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