G.I.Jim wrote:WalrusOct9 wrote:something helpful. Like work for Fox News?
You know, there's a lot of other reasons for this that have nothing to do with a political ideology and more with the fact that anyone with an internet connection and reasonable computer skills has no need for print newspapers. Newspapers have consolidated and downsized their staffs so much that they've been a joke for years, it's about time they start dying off. We don't need to kill trees just to read generic Associated Press stories in our local papers anymore.
You've got your opinion, and I've got mine. Is Fox news slanted? Yes they are (although they at least give the left a chance to speak, and frequently give them the last word!), but that's one news organization against what....7 others? Give me a damn break! The left has nearly every other news outlet in the country...we've got fox news and those who chose to listen to him...Rush.
For the record, I never said anything about them going under BECAUSE of being liberal. They're a business just like any other, and sometimes businesses fail.
All I will say is there has to be a reason (or several) that people aren't buying/reading their product any more. Maybe convergence (Internet news) wounded the newspaper beyond repair. I think that what we are seeing now is a backlash against an industry that settled for mediocrity and duty shirking in a complaisance that people would always read the news. Without even getting into politics here, for the most part, the newspapers have run shit stories with shit fact reporting for so long that when people finally had an alternative (i.e. clicking a mouse and typing a string into Google at most), they embraced it wholeheartedly and kicked the old bitch to the curb.
The newspapers did a shitty job as a whole and, more importantly, their business models sucked. Showing blatant bias towards either side of the aisle is a great way to alienate half of your audience. BUT, BUT, look at Rush you say. Apples to oranges, nobody tunes into him expecting to hear news or an unbiased take. But, even accepting the (ridiculous) notion that all reputable news outlets have remained unbiased up to this current crisis, they simply ran a shitty business. For a while, they got away with it, til people got smart and technology gave them alternatives.
It's not very different from what has happened to the record industry.
I just want to hear news. I don't want people on either side putting their opinions out there and distorting the truth. Let us decide for ourselves what our opinions are about world or local events and happenings. Same goes for newspapers...
