Orange County Register (So. Cal. Conservative Newspaper) Takeover Target of NY Times.

oc register newspaper ^ | 2-5-03 | Self

[mr. mojo risin]

I had a lengthy discussion with an employee of the Orange County Register. This conservative paper serves all of Orange County California...Regan Country.

Their editorials are fair, and Christians are priased not bashed like the LA Times does in it's OC version.

Word is the family that owns it is wealthy and ready to sell.

The LA Times Liberal Rag would love to kill the Rgister.

Even worse, the most interested in aquiring it is the NY Times. The NY Times greeding hands want the advertising dollars they would get in money towns like Newport Beach, Corona Del Mar and Dana Point.

God help us...

Please OC Freepers. Don't let this happen.
Let them know you don't want our news source Liberalized!

Somebody get organized on this issue before it's too late!

[mr. mojo risin]

NY Times is a dog-waste Liberal Rag...

[perfect stranger]

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[Plutarch]

Regan Country... [?]

[mr. mojo risin]

Sorry Freepers, I'm tired and have carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) in both hands...ouch..as I make my typos that amuse.

Regan = Ronald Reagan of course. Growing up, I used go to see him and listen to his speeches at our mall when he was Gov.

Greeding = greedy.
Praise not priase...

[Libertarianize the GOP]

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[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Thanks for the ping!

This is not good news!

[Carry_Okie]

If the NYT bought the OCR, it would be a death knell to that paper.

[Timesink]

The solution is simple (though the implementation may not be): Make it clear, NOW, that if the paper is sold to the NYTimes or LATimes, you'll all stop purchasing it, no ifs ands or buts. Just a few thousand signing such a petition in Orange County would probably be enough to scare off any liberal media buyers (who in the end care about money more than anything else).

[Brad’s Gramma]

Good grief. OK, I'll be calling the Register in the morning. Any idea as to WHO I speak to? Anyone?????

[Brad’s Gramma]

http://www2.ocregister.com/ocrweb/ocr/homepage.do


In case anyone wants to help, there's the homepage.

[CounterCounterCulture]

If the Republicans are allegedly the party of the rich, why can't we get these wealthy Republicans to buy up these newspapers? Control the media, control the agenda. Lose the media, see your rights erode away.

[xm177e2]

The OC Register has a hardline right-wing political agenda (not necessarily a bad thing) and it is willing to slander people and play fast and loose with the facts to achieve that agenda (not a good thing). It would be sad to see it fall to the NYT, but it wouldn't break my heart.

[logician2u]

You just gotta be kidding!

Hardline right-wing political agenda?

Hardly.

Editorially, the Register is libertarian. It's never endorsed a candidate for office, as (to date) there have been none -- i.e., none, nada -- the editors would want making decisions on how we should live our lives, where we should live, what we can drive, eat, ingest, etc. None of these things, of course, are the proper province of government, yet every politician sooner or later gets around to confessing that, yes, if given a chance, that's exactly what he or she would like to do.

[xm177e2]

Libertarian is a form of right-wing, right? Their libertarian agenda (anti-government) is what I was referring to. The OCR slanders people to advance its agenda.

[Howlin]

Howell Raines is one of the most dangerous men in America!

[Diddle E. Squat]

LOL

[logician2u]

Libertarian is a form of right-wing, right?

Yeah, in the same way that pinochle is a form of sports.

And "anti-government" is not what most people would characterize as "hard-right wing." Unless you're referring to militias or the Freemen of Montana, who are hardly blood brothers to R.C. Hoiles.

Can we settle for saying the editorial stance of the Register is about 180-degrees out from both the LA Times and the NY Times, and leave out the libelous allegations?

[daviddennis]

I don't think you're talking to a friendly audience here, and when that is so, what you need is specifics - time, place, people slandered, how it affected them and their lives.

D

[SierraWasp]

Well, the Sacramento BEE-ESS finally destroyed the oldest newspaper in CA (The Sacramento Union that Mark Twain wrote for) and the Union's ghost is World Net Daily.com. Dan Walters is the token sorta conservative held over as political columnist for the BEE.

The Ironic thing is... The Unions destroyed the Union along with the rampant liberalism of the late 1960's and early 1970's. I know you know most of this. I'm just bumping the thread with trivia for the lurkers.

[tubebender]

My wife tells me that the New York Times owns the LA Times. They also own the Santa Rosa Press Democrat.

[jpl]

Perhaps Rupert Murdoch could sweep in and save the paper.

[Uncle Hal]

If true this is very sad. This is a great newspaper and very balanced in its coverage. If the NY Times gets a hold of it, its coverage will change dramatically. I do not think the LA Times would be to happy about the NY Times coming into its territory. I live in Petaluma,Cal. and the local in town newspaper, the Argus Courier, and county {Sonoma County} wide paper based in Santa Rosa, the Press Democrat, are both owned by the NY Times. Plus the other big newspaper in the SF Bay Area is the SF Chronicle, probably the most liberal paper in the USA. It is a very cold world for a conservaive up here.

[Gracey]

Do you mean Cabinet member Regan or President Ronald REAGAN???

[mr. mojo risin]

Sorry Freepers, I was tired when I posted this and have carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) in both hands...ouch..as I make my typos that amuse.

Regan = Ronald Reagan of course. Growing up, I used go to see him and listen to his speeches at our mall when he was Gov.

Greeding = greedy.
Praise not priase...

[Lurking Libertarian]

My wife tells me that the New York Times owns the LA Times. They also own the Santa Rosa Press Democrat.

First is false, second is true.