These guys don't get it, do they? Yes, the "slump" (I'd call that a "crash" instead) of newspaper revenues is due in part to the economy and the internet. But not mentioned at all in the article is that the "slump" is also due in large part to the fact that readers are fleeing newspapers in droves. Why? Simple. Why would anyone pay hard earned money for a couple dozen editorial pages every day? What passes for news today is nothing more than a slanted progressive political agenda rather than what it should be ... reporting of the actual news without political comment.
Here's the point. You'll hear numbers thrown around that between 80% and 95% of "the press" votes for the Democrat line. Now, I really don't know what the most accurate number is, but even at the low end of that range, it's pretty unnerving to think that such a lopsided percentage is feeding the public "all the news that's fit to print." In fact, maybe that slogan should be changed to "all the news that we feel you should have." The plain fact is that most (if not all) journalism schools in the US are really teaching political science with a very liberal bias. These "reporters" get out and are further honed by their very liberal editors. What we get is birdcage flooring.
What can you do? Don't buy the paper and get your news from a source that is preferably neutral but that at least reflects your viewpoint.
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