Newspaper Industry Going in the Trash - Where It Wants to Be
What's still comforting about the liberal media is that it is largely run by liberal media bosses who are so blinded by their agenda that they don't have any business instincts left. See: the newspaper industry.
Much well-deserved attention has already been given to a study by the Project for Excellence in Journalism that showed overwhelming media bias in favor of Barack Obama. And as I demonstrated a couple of weeks ago when I exposed CNN for passing off a Democratic activist for a "lifelong Republican" voting for Obama, it is often not just bias, but flat out lies. Even the Washington Post's Ombudsman has plainly accepted the fact that the Post has been pro-Obama this election cycle.
Well, now the business side has come around. We've been reading stories about the New York Times and the Washington Post suffering at the hands of falling demand. And now we know that again this year, circulation for most newspapers is collapsing, most notably in the top 25.
Not surprising, considering that nearly 70% of them endorsed an astonishingly substandard Barack Obama for the presidency, and likely participated in the massive media bias exercise we all witnessed. Well, they're going into the trash, where they forced their consumers to send them.
The only two newspapers in the top 25 that have had an increase in circulation? The light-reading, editorially relaxed USA Today, and the conservative Wall Street Journal.
Paul Ibrahim
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Not only were they in the tank for Obama for 8 years they have attacked GWB with all thei guns. My opinion is definitely a very, very small minority but I believe GWB did a decent job and has never recieved credit for accomplishments and the blame for many other people's failings. They are trying to do to Sarah what they did to GWB and our "elites" are assisting them.
It's amazing to me that an industry would actively seek out ways to alienate at least half of their customers yet this is exactly what the media has done. Of course knowing that it takes a thinker to be a conservative, it's not surprising that we're seeking our news elsewhere.
Yeah, I love going over to the left wing sites to hear how the mainstream media is so blatantly conservative and pro-war and all that.
All of these bias reports that show the number of stories, the content, the political affiliations and donations made of and by the journalists, I mean, all of it falls on ears deafened by ideology. The Left is correct, and everything that disagrees is an enemy to be countered at every turn, and at every issue, no matter what the facts are.
Even when a WaPo editorial admits a "tilt" and promises not to do it again in four years, lol.
Nice blog, Mr. Ibrahim. Thank you.
So if we don't subscribe to any of those MSM papers (and I'd already dissed the Anchorage Daily News, so in the tank for Obama it's embarrassing), what else can we do?
Old establishment newspapers have been losing circulation for many years now. Its amazing some have survived this long. However, if any think they are doomed, you had better think again.
The push for the so-called Fairness Doctrine
& for as Nancy Pelosi calls it, "editing of internet content", means the establishment media are fighting back.
Their fight is not by improving content. No! What they really want is the alternative media to be shut down so people have almost no where else to get any news. Perhaps Democrats can nationalize the media too?
And based on comments by Obama & numerous other liberals, & even some conservatives, I have serious doubts they will permit Fox News to last much longer. Fox is not perfect, but they are at least reasonably fair & balanced as compared to the others.
While ABC, NBC, CBS, MSNBC, CNN, NPR, etc.' will face little real controversy or few public complaints, or at least any that will be made public, attacks on Fox News will become vitriolic & the left will inundate the FCC with complaints. This despite the probability that many of the complaints will come from the same person's &/or groups. These will allow the FCC to be positioned to respond to public demands for Fox to be seriously monitored. We will see any & all Fox content face serious scrutiny & perhaps content time delay similar to Super Bowl performances since the famous wardrobe failure.
Many may think this is an over-reaction. I say, give it two to three years & then tell me I was mistaken. Even Bill Ayers has gotten on the blame Fox News bandwagon. And after all, he is now a reconstructed "dissenter", who happens to have seriously powerful political allies.
The nasty opposition rhetoric we have heard for the past eight years, at least, will not be tolerated now that the one is in office. After all, now it is important we all "unify" and come together for the sake of the nation. Now, with a liberal in the White House, it has suddenly become necessary for us all to stop complaining and to unify as a collective nation, to repair America.
Its comical. For years we have been told by the left that America is a great nation. They just wanted us to elect them so they could fix her! We have been told the left is not soft on national defense. But now the left is pushing an at least a 25% reduction in all military spending. Maybe the plan is to spend that money on Obama's "civilian" force that he wants to be as strong as our military? Brown shirts anyone?