Posted on 06/28/2016 6:43:47 AM PDT by Lockbox
This summer, The New York Times is ushering in a transformation more radical than it has seen in almost half a century, perhaps since the great Abe Rosenthal overhaul of the 1970s, which created the wide-ranging, multi-section Times we know today.
Back then, the Times was grappling with economic headwinds and the rise of TV. Now the Times—like all newspapers—is grappling with economic headwinds and the rise of the smartphone, and its future is on the line once again.
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I'd love to see Trump buy it at a foreclosure sale and then turn it into a Trump Hotel.
When walking down 42nd Street in NYC, it’s difficult to distinguish the prostitutes from the women who work at the NY Times.
Virtually all newspapers are struggling because they threw their conservative readers overboard with their grossly biased reporting and editorializing.
Helping them well is like giving CPR to Hitler, Stalin, or Mao.
After a very public fumigation.
Seriously Jim? We expect better here at FR.. It’s the FIRST Amendment. Perhaps your point got lost in the brevity of your post.
If they had any business sense they’d decide to stop lying about those with money to elect candidates who will give things to people without money.
They could make revenue off of people with money if they stop trying to alienate them daily. No matter how much Hillary gives to those without money they will not become a revenue stream for NYT (unless Hillary heavily subsidizes subscriptions which is not beyond belief since she wants a state media she can control.)
It is economic imbecility to run a business that can only get support from one segment of the population - namely the far left.
I didn’t know what you were going for at first but I can understand your point now, thanks.
They should in fact be a separate entity than the Government they report on but sadly the press had been co-opted long ago by the propagandists and don’t “speak truth to power”.
Unfortunately there are too many lemmings who want to believe the lies for nature to take it’s course...imho, of course.
And, the Chicago Tribune is running grocery store ads on their front page (albeit,below the fold) of Section 1 in the Sunday edition.
My point was, the press is free, but that does not “assign them a role”, nor does it confer on them any special rights and privileges.
They USE the fact that the First Amendment protects them from Congress to fool people into believing that they are some kind of “watchdog” or “guardian” on our behalf, when nothing could be further from the truth.
Agreed.
However,I would go farther and differentiate between propaganda or print slanted to push a particular agenda and real NEWS.
Freedom of the press does not mean freedom from the truth’
IOW I would work to strip the 1st amendment protection from that
Change?
So are they moving towards news and away from propaganda?
Didn’t think so.
He will be an expert on fumigations after the fumigation he will have to do to the White Hut next January. I honestly don't know if it will be possible to get all the stink out.
Lie & Slander are not Constitutionally protected. Those are covered under Due Process.
Trump said months ago the NYTimes was in trouble. The man is an economic prophet.
As with any other enemy to our country, I look forward to their complete destruction and their ultimate demise.
Not sure I agree.
I don't think I can imagine a government I would trust to adjudicate truth claims against a free press.
At the most, I would overrule Sullivan vs. NYT.
Hamster liner edition?
Oh Heck that is redundant.
In their analysis, there was not a single mention about how their political bias is killing the paper. There is no hope for those who don’t recognize their biggest problems.
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