From the sounds of things, the owners of The New York Times had only enough money to pay themselves huge bonuses this year but not enough to keep their northern edition, The Boston Globe alive. So it’s to be good bye Globe.
Good bye and good riddance. U.S.newspapers have become tools of the state and serve only as Judas goats to lead the populace into oppression. How deep in the tank are these sycophants? Well, they sit on their fat asses when the President of the United States, George Bush, walks into the White House press office – speaking truth to power, just like they learned in journo school – and jump to their feet like the puppets when Obama comes in. Video here.
Now, disrespecting the office of the president of the United States isn’t such a big deal – we’ve all grown used to the notion that U.S. reporters consider themselves “citizens of the world” with no allegiance to their country, but the video does illustrate exactly what the media denied so strenuously during the election: they’re Obama men, through and through.
More important, when the White House threatens private citizens with “destruction by the White House Press Corp” you would expect an independent press to protest being used to promote a politicians agenda. No such protest has been made – indeed, the story of such intimidation was ignored or buried by the tools themselves.
So the continued existence of a national press corp, in my opinion, is far more of a threat to liberty than its extermination because the reporters create the impression of independent, free-thinking individuals intent on ferreting out wrong doing. And to believe in that myth is to be in danger of falling into complacency. So so long, Boston Globe, adios, Seattle Intelligencer, Denver Post and all you other ink – stained wretches. I won’t miss you or your betrayal.
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This would make a great op-ed. 🙂
I saw video of a White House press conference in which instead just asking her question in the normal manner the the reporter asked BHO, “May I ask you a question about …?” and then waited until he responded “You may” before proceeding. Can you a reporter taking that meek approach with ANY other recent president.
I imagine Kim Jong Il is frustrated that his rule over North Korea is no longer the world’s freakiest national personality cult. Maybe his recent ICBM missile launch was actually an attempt to draw a little press coverage away from BHO.
Agree with your sentiment; but media is much like IB equity research or credit rating agencies: anyone w/a brain has known for decades that they are conflicted in many ways and generally inept analytically
Media is largely owned/controlled by a few anti-Israel billionaires who live in NYC or LA…and answers to advertisers….historically, the auto industry, P&G, financial industry, etc….and the “journalists”/entertainers tend to be highly paid, confused commies who seem not to refuse their rather capitalist earnings for their entertainment value via TV, books, speaking tours, etc
Their death can’t happen soon enough to suit me.
I read the NYTimes, as I have for 40 plus years, only now I try to see the humor on the front page. It is sad that the self appointed “newspaper of record” has sunk to a shrill, one-sided rag. Nearly beyond redemption….I wonder who on their board is asking why the WSJ is growing and NYT is shrinking. I guess not enough people see the humor.
Well said. There is a reason that these papers are failing, and it is not because people are no longer interested in news or because everyone is online. It’s because new media (the internet, etc.) has let people know that the newspapers are not providing the news, but propaganda. People don’t like paying to be manipulated and they are expressing this by staying away (if you disagree look at the circulation numbers – or better yet, keep your head in the sand while these papers fold one by one).
This explains why politicians like John Kerry have proposed “federal bailouts” for these mainstream newspapers – they are being abandoned by regular citizens in droves.
I have been getting the weekend home delivery of the NYTimes for many years. I seem to spend less and less time reading the paper. This past Sunday, it took me less than 10 min to go through this 4 inch paper weight. I found mostly old news (a day behind the news on the internet), many ads and the usual liberal bias. Except for the black ink on my hands, I got little from the morning read. I called the NYTimes this morning to cancel my subscription.
Be careful what you wish for: if public papers go the way of the do-do bird, there is a risk that government becomes the official channel for news.
Not to mention for every bad story (of which there are many) along with it comes good investigative writing from time to time (i.e. Watergate).
Clearly, the historic model of newsprint is changing, but IMHO it is important the new order, however that manifests itself, be a credible check oon government (albeit an imperfect one).
I agree, IB’r, I was just feeling dyspeptic over the brave souls of the Washington press corp dishonoring the office of President when it was occupied by someone they hated and groveling at the feet of the current occupant. What really irks me is their continued protestation that they’re “neutral”. Bah.
Has team Obama’s muckity proposals for the unions to receive a majority stake in the reborn Chrysler taught NY Time’s own Boston Globe union to hold out for ownership instead of cuts?