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.
When the LA Times withheld the video of Obama and Ayers at a Islamic get together…during which it is likely a Palestinian troup mock beheaded an American, a Brit and and Israeli…with Obama applauding the show…
I decided the drive by media is precisely what Limbaugh says…and I refuse to buy their papers anymore…
Let them go under…new one will take their place…
I stopped buying newspapers after noticing that many Sunday editions come out on Saturday afternoons. Why pay $2 for Friday news, Saturday morning at best, on Sunday.
My local paper is so pathetic. Eighty percent is reprints from other papers. I witnessed a horrible car accident in front of the local mall and gave up looking for any reporting on it after 4 days of nothing.
#7 for the win
The print media are murdering the forests. They should have stopped a long time ago according to their own dogma.
#30 Little Spinner Bobbo
>>I said the media was worthless for not criticizing congress and you call me hitler for not realizing that the problem was congress.
You said media did not excoriate Congress for not impeaching Bush. A big difference since you are really complaining that the media is not performing as your personal hit squad.
As always you twist meanings to meet your needs and this time you have stooped to rewriting yourself. Pathetic.
Rush’s listeners aren’t the type who read newspapers anyway. Most of them don’t have the brains to figure out for themselves whether an AP article is biased or not. They need someone to tell them, and Rush filled the void.
But Rush has perpetuated the myth that the media hates conservatives and pushes an agenda. If you really believe that, spend a day in the newsroom of any paper or mid-market TV news office. You’ll be cured of that crap right away.
maybe if they actually reported real news
and not some crap that sat in the Spin-O-Tron
for a week after being pulled through the assholes of a dozen ceo’s and coated with political lemming juice, -they might have
had a chance.
only reason they’re running this blame the rush story is to keep people from seeing the latest poles that are well..not that favorable for the messiah..
talk about desperate.
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#43 Hmyers
Ditto
If Rush keeps smoking those nasty, cancer causing and air polluting cigars, we won’t be bothered by him much longer. He’s Darwining himself.
Rush killed the newspapers.
“Mission Accomplished!!”
# 49 Floyd said, “He’s Darwining himself.”
Yep, just George Burns did.
#34- QB -”OK, it’s official. I’m really sick and tired of stories about Rush Limbaugh.”
FTW!
I don’t see this article as blaming Rush at all. This is just another reporter bitter about the end of the printed newspaper. They seem to be focusing so much on why no one buys a paper, instead of trying to find the new medium.
The hunger for news is still strong and some would say even stronger than ever. You just have to use a different plate to serve it on.
#41, Alphie,
When the LA Times withheld the video of Obama and Ayers at a Islamic get together …
I agree. Print newspapers should publish all the videos their still photographers take.
Although in fairness, shouldn’t FOX SPEWS also have shown, or at least reported, that video of Dick Cheney and George Bush fucking each other in the ass? Or what about the one of Dick Cheney in the WH basement, giggling with glee as they water boarded some prisoners just for him? We know they have the tapes, why can’t they show them?
But one thing I will acknowledge about the LATimes, and almost all major newspapers, they will admit when they made a mistake. Rags like the right wing nut NY Post, don’t know what responsibility and honesty are.
John Dvorak’s latest article is about the death of newspapers, and so is Bill Simmons’ latest podcast. Go to espn.com, and check out part 2 of his interview with Chuck Klosterman. Simmons blames the unions for the death of newspapers.
# 54 Mr. Fusion said, on March 17th, 2009 at 7:09 am
#41, Alphie,
When the LA Times withheld the video of Obama and Ayers at a Islamic get together …
I agree. Print newspapers should publish all the videos their still photographers take.
Although in fairness, shouldn’t FOX SPEWS also have shown, or at least reported, that video of Dick Cheney and George Bush fucking each other in the ass?…
Debbie Schussel, disguised as a muslim lady, attended these “private” Islamic extremist functions like that attended by Obama and Ayers…infidels they evidently agree with on something…common enemies perhaps?
She reported this troupe’s signature performance is a mock beheading of an American, British and Israeli citizen…the actors (children) sing praises to Allah, the bloody flags of each nation prominently displayed…trampled, etc…
Of course…when the Great Satan America “got hers”…Obama and Ayers and their buddy, a former Palestinian Organization spokesman… applauded vigorously…
Isn’t is wonderful how a common enemy (US) can unite such diverse people…
The LA Times refused to release the video, to protect Obama…it would have ended his career in US politics…now he is President…his media advocates got what they want…
I will get what I want…as the New Media puts the old media elites out of business…
I once bought the LA Times almost daily…never again…Its a liberal advocacy rag…even its foreign coverage…an apologia for left loon ideas…
Kill the newspapers and organized research and reporting by replacing them with decentralized bloggers and the internet. Then, you strangle the internet so that only the officially approved and sanitized propaganda gets through. Then the Plutocrats and their neo-con henchmen have won. -takes off tinfoil hat-
Oh, and the photo of Rush with the cigar poking out of his face makes him look like a movie star.
Like Lassie taking a shit.
I misspelled her name: Debbie Schlussel
http://debbieschlussel.com/archives/2008/10/exclusive_dance.html
Rush reports his audience is growing…with each white house/media attack…
That’s wonderful…as more folks hear common sense…common sense becomes more common…and liberal loon “feel good about oneself” approach to problems…is seen for the irrational response to reality it really is.
Its time Obama hired some adults…real ceo’s who know business, to advise him… and chuck the ivory tower academic loons…who long for Fidel Castro’s stimulus to be enacted…
One would think these academics would realize socialism just doesn’t work, based upon the history of Russia and China…but no…while China grows (being more capitalist that we), we shrink because socialist methods are being employed…