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Is It Worth Reading a Newspaper Anymore?
American Thinker ^ | June 17, 2016 | Thomas Lipscomb

Posted on 06/17/2016 4:47:13 AM PDT by Zakeet

Almost exactly a century ago at the great naval battle at Jutland, David Beatty said "There seems to be something wrong with our bloody ships today" after two of his battleships exploded under German gunnery and incompetent seamanship by his sailors.

Well, there seems to be something wrong with our bloody newspapers today as well.

The New York Times runs an editorial on "The NRA's Complicity in Terrorism," but the Orlando mass murderer Omar Mateen isn't a member of the NRA. He is a member of the Democratic Party, who voted for Obama twice, and worked as a subcontract security man for Homeland Security under Obama appointee Jeh Johnson.

The New York Times professes total confusion as to Mateen’s motivation, while the same day Senator Charles Johnson, Chairman of the Homeland Security Committee, described how Mateen had made over 16 calls in the four hours after the shooting inside The Pulse, while the police outside were presumably trying to decide who ordered the pepperoni and who the anchovies on their pizza while victims bled to death inside. Several of Matteen's calls were specifically pledging his loyalty and service to ISIS, speaking to law enforcement at 911, and he made several postings of the same pledge to ISIS on his five accounts on Facebook.

Meanwhile The Wall Street Journal helpfully offers what it calls "a primer" headlined "Assault Weapons Explained." ...

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: liberalism; mediabias; msm; newspapers
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... about the only thing associated with the mainstream media that I'd even consider looking at these days ...

1 posted on 06/17/2016 4:47:13 AM PDT by Zakeet
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To: Zakeet

No


2 posted on 06/17/2016 4:47:44 AM PDT by shalom aleichem
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To: Zakeet

Jefferson said, “a mnn who doesn’t read the news everyday is uninformed, a man who does read the news everyday is misinformed.”


3 posted on 06/17/2016 4:50:41 AM PDT by stockpirate (Make America Mexico Again - MAMA end sarcasm)
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To: Zakeet

We always buy the “double” Washington Post package every Sunday (the Sunday edition and Saturday’s “Early Sunday” edition)

Two full sets of coupons, and more than enough newsprint to supply padding to any package we might send.

And we shred the rest and add it to the compost pile. . .

But use it for NEWS ? Hardly. . .


4 posted on 06/17/2016 4:54:49 AM PDT by Salgak (You're in Strange Hands with Tom Stranger. . . .)
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To: Zakeet

I knew the newspapers were in trouble 20 years ago when the New York Times Correction section was larger than the Sunday Magazine section.


5 posted on 06/17/2016 4:56:16 AM PDT by miss marmelstein (Richard the Third: With my own people alone I should like to drive away the Muslims)
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To: stockpirate

“Jefferson said, “a mnn who doesn’t read the news everyday is uninformed, a man who does read the news everyday is misinformed.””

I don’t care that newspapers and the rest of the MSM lie. I would prefer they came out of the closet and announced they were the spokespeople for the Democrat party. Would make life a lot less stressful.


6 posted on 06/17/2016 4:56:29 AM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (Radical Gay - A feminazi with a penis.)
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To: Zakeet
Is It Worth Reading a Newspaper Anymore?

No.

7 posted on 06/17/2016 4:56:39 AM PDT by Navy Patriot (America, a Rule of Mob nation)
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To: Zakeet

Newsprint is yucky.


8 posted on 06/17/2016 4:59:19 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: Zakeet

Amazing the obfuscation. A Muslim terrorist kills 49 people and the media reports on ANY topic EXCEPT terrorism. The media reports on Politics, NRA, Trump, Christians, assault rifles...but they will not discuss the Koran instructing this person to kill all infidels...the cause and reason are EVERYTHING ELSE other than Islam and its goals. (Love the pic!).


9 posted on 06/17/2016 5:00:44 AM PDT by ThePatriotsFlag ( Anything FREELY-GIVEN by the government was TAKEN from someone else.)
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I read our statewide and local rags online.

The statewide paper (Newark Star Ledger) is Pravda printed in English, and our local paper is just... terrible.

I wouldn’t spend three cents to subscribe to either of them.


10 posted on 06/17/2016 5:05:56 AM PDT by Peter W. Kessler ("NUTS!!!")
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To: Zakeet

What’s a newspaper?


11 posted on 06/17/2016 5:08:17 AM PDT by TYVets
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To: Zakeet

“Is It Worth Reading a Newspaper Anymore?”

Do you have parakeets?


12 posted on 06/17/2016 5:09:38 AM PDT by moovova
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To: stockpirate
stockpirate :" Jefferson said, “a mnn who doesn’t read the news everyday is uninformed,
a man who does read the news everyday is misinformed.”

That is why I look to FreeRepublic for up to date information,
except for the politically aligned comments, FR gives me recent information that is unbiased.
I look to Drudge , FR, and foreign news sources for accurate information with out the political BS.
Most Mainstream information sources (ABCBSNBCFAUXCNBS) are just propaganda sources for (josh)Ernest news to solidify the current political establishment.
At least with FR , one has to verify the news source when posting; and one must consider the news source, due to bias.
Newspapers are , by their very existence , " a day late, and a dollar short " for recent history, dependent on editorial content and opinion.

13 posted on 06/17/2016 5:10:46 AM PDT by Tilted Irish Kilt ( British historian Arnold Toynbee - Civilisations die from suicide, not by murder.)
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“Is It Worth Reading a Newspaper Anymore?”

Only for the coupons.


14 posted on 06/17/2016 5:13:45 AM PDT by Brooklyn Attitude (The first step in ending the War on White People, is to recognize it exists.)
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No... don’t watch TV either . Internet and AM radio is sole source of “events” that are the trip wires that make me research a subject matter or event more but every source of news and educational information is agenda driven.

Awareness of such disinformation efforts and the ability to separate the wheat from the chaff is key when reading, listening, watching or even witnessing current events.

Who profits, who is their primary market, who are their advertisers, bank etc ?

my opinion.....


15 posted on 06/17/2016 5:18:46 AM PDT by Squantos ( Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet ...)
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To: stockpirate

If you don’t read the newspaper, you’re uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you’re mis-informed.”
Mark Twain


16 posted on 06/17/2016 5:20:54 AM PDT by shoff (Vote Democratic it beats thinking!)
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To: Zakeet

Newspapers are dying. They have taken a slow active poison (deciding to become activist rather then impartial reporters of facts).

Newspapers have forgotten what their product is. The “news” (and all other features) are just content, their product is eyeballs. They are in the advertising business. The content gets the eyeball to the ads. The ads pay for everything.

By choosing sides they in effect cut off half of their potential readers. Add to that the fact that reading a daily paper is a generational thing. Young people for the most part do not read newspapers. So as the last generation dies off, so do subscriptions to the papers die off.

As a point of record I stopped reading newspapers almost 20 years ago when I realized every story on every subject had a liberal slant.


17 posted on 06/17/2016 5:22:03 AM PDT by CIB-173RDABN (The government is the problem, not the solution.)
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To: Zakeet

I no longer take in a paper, but they can be the best availa le source for local news, as most web sites aren’t as complete. Newspapers should also be read by those in politics if they need to know what people who read newspapers are reading.


18 posted on 06/17/2016 5:22:50 AM PDT by Dr. Sivana ("There is no limit to the amount of good you can do if you don't care who gets the credit."-R.Reagan)
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To: Zakeet

Well over 90% of all news that I read is online. When we travel, I’ll often read a paper that is in the hotel lobby just to see what’s different in the area. International newspapers are the most interesting. Otherwise for daily/weekly news, it’s all online.


19 posted on 06/17/2016 5:27:59 AM PDT by Marko413
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To: central_va

“Newsprint is yucky.”

An excellent case can be made that newspapers are bad for the environment (that should appeal to lefty’s).

1- Millions of trees are grown in monoculture and are cut down every year.
2- Processing of trees into paper uses many toxic and caustic chemical including cancer causing agents that are released into the environment. It also pollutes a huge amount of water.
3- Production and delivery of the product produces a huge amount of green house gasses and air pollution.
4-The product (newspapers) are the ultimate use once and throw away product. It is obsolete after 1 day. It fills our “precious” landfills.
5- Much of the information found in newspapers is incorrect, biased or misleading.
6- The information dispensed in newspapers could be electronically transmitted much cheaper and faster with little or no waste.

SAVE THE PLANET. BAN NEWSPAPERS!


20 posted on 06/17/2016 5:32:52 AM PDT by Brooklyn Attitude (The first step in ending the War on White People, is to recognize it exists.)
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