By SN
Monday March 16, 2009
Washington Post – Kathleen Parker – Sunday, March 15, 2009:
The biggest challenge facing America’s struggling newspaper industry may not be the high cost of newsprint or lost ad revenue, but ignorance stoked by drive-by punditry.
Yes, Dittoheads, you heard it right.
Drive-by pundits, to spin off of Rush Limbaugh’s “drive-by media,” are non-journalists who have been demonizing the media for the past 20 years or so and who blame the current news crisis on bias.
Unfortunately, the chorus of media bashing from certain quarters has succeeded in convincing many Americans that they don’t need newspapers. The Pew Research Center for the People & the Press recently found that fewer than half of Americans — 43 percent — say that losing their local newspaper would hurt civic life in their community “a lot.” Only 33 percent say they would miss the local paper if it were no longer available.
Constant criticism of the “elite media” is comical to most reporters, whose paychecks wouldn’t cover Limbaugh’s annual dry cleaning bill. The truly elite media are the people most Americans have never heard of — the daily-grind reporters who turn out for city council and school board meetings. Or the investigative teams who chase leads for months to expose abuse or corruption.
#60 What to hear the latest? China, in order to buy into the global warming hoax treaty, wants foreign importers to pay for all its “carbon offsets”. Our spineless Admin will probably go along. LOL
# 61 Paddy-O said, on March 17th, 2009 at 7:56 am
#60 What to hear the latest? China, in order to buy into the global warming hoax treaty, wants foreign importers to pay for all its “carbon offsets”. Our spineless Admin will probably go along. LOL
In the Obama bizarro think…it makes sense…its always America’s fault…first and foremost…
Putting folks who hate America in charge…is precisely the lunacy our founding fathers contemplated when they put checks on Presidential power…
Hopefully the Supreme court will hold him back…till the people wake up…and vote his enablers out of congress in 2010…and him in 2012…
# 62 Alfred1 said, “Hopefully the Supreme court will hold him back…”
I don’t know. When the SC nailed FDR for trying unconstitutional crap & treasonous behavior, he just packed the Court until he was able to screw the country.
# 63 Paddy-O said, on March 17th, 2009 at 8:26 am
# 62 Alfred1 said, “Hopefully the Supreme court will hold him back…”
I don’t know. When the SC nailed FDR for trying unconstitutional crap & treasonous behavior, he just packed the Court until he was able to screw the country.
FDR had more time…lets work to stop history from repeating itself…
I still pinch myself to see if I’m dreaming…to imagine the country would reelect the congress that caused the economic meltdown…and a community organizer maxist as President…
Just because he can read a teleprompter well in public…
Want to know why Rush is so popular? Look where on the bell curve his audience resides. Hint: The LARGE part of the curve, where the I.Q. readings are represented by two digit numbers. Face it guys, Rush doesn’t like you, probably doesn’t even believe a tenth of the crap he spouts, it’s just where the warm bodies are.
#56, Debbie Schlussel isn’t credible at all.
She regularly reports about how she went undercover at a mosque, and somehow everytime she’s there, a hatefest breaks out, whether it’s Lewis Farrakhan, Keith Ellison, or Obama, or anyone else.
The tape in question is from 2003 and Obama supposedly praises Rashid Khalidi. The LA Times won’t release the tape on the grounds that they had an agreement with their source not to do so.
I wonder how many other sources can get that type of agreement?
# 65 GetSmart said, “Hint: The LARGE part of the curve, where the I.Q. readings are represented by two digit numbers.”
Hey, at least it’s one digit higher than O’Mama fans…
I won’t be sorry to see the newspapers fold. The sooner the better.
Letting newspapers fold moves us faster towards a future with the newest technology. Why are you against this? There is clearly no harm in seeing newspapers fold. Think of all the jobs to come from next paradigm in news!
#56, Alphie,
Oh, I agree. We should have the LA Times play a copy of that tape on their front page for everyone to see. Then they can play the tape of Cheney and Bush butt poking each other.
In other words, you are just another ditto head idiot claiming bullshit about Obama in order to appease your ditto head leader, Boss Limpdick and his other maniacal ilk.
What you have done is allowed one delusional person to exaggerate a artistic performance into a political gathering and attach garbage to a political opponent. There is nothing to substantiate this bullshit except the raving, lunatic, screeching of some wanna be ditto head.
This is why print journalism is so important. It, at least, prints what is news and not what the ditto heads want them to print.
Mr. Fusion,
You are wrong. I rather have political entertainment that people know is entertainment and “professional journalistic” news that constantly attempts to brainwash people while they think they are getting FAIR or unbiased news. Why so much attention on Rush Mr. Fusion? Why not some of the hosts on TV, such as on MSNBC? Independent studies have shown that Rush’s audience is more informed than NPR audiences, so just like some people get the news from Jon Stewart, some get it from Rush. And unlike CNN who is afraid to offend its guests, Rush takes on dems and reps.