Bad for newspapers, good for readers?
Discuss round three of this week's Dust-Up.
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Hey, here's an idea: Why doesn't someone start a right-wing newspaper? That way, all the whiners here could have a paper that doesn't challenge their astounding sense of ideological entitlement. However many readers the LA Times has lost, they still have an infinitely greater number of subscribers than the right-wing competition in L.A. which has, how many? ZERO.
bunkerbuster @ 5:45 PM PDT, Jul 10, 2008
NEW LONDON, CT: The NYTimes editorial "Tsunami Aftermath; Are We Stingy? Yes" (12/30/04) was intentionally dishonest. It ignored public information: $15 million is the legal maximum the president can pledge without Congressional authorization (Congress was in recess) and scores of US cargo planes, helicopters and ships were already on the way with relief aid (none of which counted against the $15 million). Also, James Dao 'edited' (ghoulishly hacked) a letter found posthumously by the family of Cpl. Jeffrey Starr in "2,000 Dead: As Iraq Tours Stretch On, a Grim Mark" (10/26/05). The MSMs turpitude is as plain as the nose on your face.
Uncle Ralph @ 2:28 PM PDT, Jul 10, 2008
PCD, If you can't read my comment as anything but a criticism of Wikipedia as a source, then your comprehension skills need improving.
KDB @ 1:49 PM PDT, Jul 10, 2008
Marc's disdain for anyone to towards the center or right is obvious--and is why I stopped reading his own blog. I would love to hold a print newspaper in my hands every morning and enjoy the news along with my morning tea, then check their website for corrections or clarifications later on if I wanted to. But I can't in good conscience support an enterprise of non-elected advocates who seek to change our society in a way I do not favor. If I could vote the editors out, I would, but withholding my subscription is the only weapon I presently have.
PJ @ 12:16 PM PDT, Jul 10, 2008
Nice threat to go after Mr. Frey! Yeah, someone that says things you don't like - INVESTIGATE HIM! That will shut him up. This same guy posts the same thing at Frey's blog - does HE not have enough to do during the day?
steve miller @ 9:46 AM PDT, Jul 10, 2008
The survival of the LAT depends on if it can deliver hard fact, truthful and unbias reporting that the media will use as a source for their one sided comments. When is the last time you heard "The Los Angeles Times reported today..."
jack @ 9:17 AM PDT, Jul 10, 2008
Mr. Frey makes some useful points, but having looked at his blog I'm not sure humility is one of his strong points. His output level also makes me wonder about management practices at the DA's office. Perhaps the Times should investigate that issue?
M. Thomas @ 9:10 AM PDT, Jul 10, 2008
Whether the Times likes it or not, the Internet is doing to the LAT what Rush Limbaugh did to KABC's Michael Jackson in the early 1990's, and for the same reason: providing the "Equal Time" that the "Fairness Doctrine" did not permit. Jackson insulted his listeners by fawning over such evil men as Dr. Armand Hammer as the Times now fawns over LA's ethnic Democrat socialists to the detriment of the region and the indignation of its more pragmatic readers. Jackson wonders why he's off the air too.
C. Norris @ 8:05 AM PDT, Jul 10, 2008
maybe the reason the newspapers (and other media) are loosing so much of their customers, is that we have gotten tired of their liberal or conservative bent. Or their lack of investigating of what they get from those they interview. Too many times they just parrot what the interviewee says. Though some of that may be because of time constraints, but that doesn't help them much
dw @ 7:34 AM PDT, Jul 10, 2008
If the times is such a leftist rag, where is the right-wing alternative? Why haven't conservatives managed to produce a daily newspaper to their liking? Not just in L.A., but ANYWHERE? Are they too dumb? Too poor? Too lazy? The bottom line is wingnuts like the one's insisting the Times has a liberal bias have no need for straight news. They only crave nonstop opinionating that reinforces their intellectual inferiority complex.
McLovin @ 11:58 PM PDT, Jul 9, 2008
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