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   pouncingtiger said, 6 months ago

   The power of the pen is getting pressed.

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   madKanga said, 6 months ago

   Right on Wiley.
   Too many businesses and politicians (and voters) looking at the short term, and when we finally realize what we are loosing, it is too late.

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   ejcapulet said, 6 months ago

   I come from a very small town and the local papers are the best place for finding out about what’s going on locally. Give me print any day!

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   grazer said, 6 months ago

   The loss of our newspapers is de-pressing.

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   durtclaw said, 6 months ago

   Newspapers may disappear, so many today can neither read nor write well enough and they lose so much.

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   Timberline said, 6 months ago

   Similar to what’s going on with TV news, especially CNN, where viewers are being asked to supply the stories. What has happened to good old fashioned reporting which required hard work and research?

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   annecommenator said, 6 months ago

   The “Boston Globe” is as much a part of New England as are The Boston Red Sox and Fenway Franks. If the “New York Times” shuts down the “Boston Globe”, I will permanently cancel my “New York Times” internet subscription. Who is on the board at the “New York Times”? What other boards are they on? How much do they make being on each board? Is CEO incest/inbreeding alive and well in Corporate America???
   Another point: An ice storm left me without electricity for 11 days; 19 without cable/TV/internet service. Thank God for the newspapers for innumerable reasons!

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   bald 716 said, 6 months ago

   ejcapulet says:

   I come from a very small town and the local papers are the best place for finding out about what’s going on locally. Give me print any day!

   but sadly, even some of the small town newspapers are shutting down or going to biweekly editions

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   GuntotingLiberal said, 6 months ago

   Losing local news is sad, but by my count the US lost all pretense of legitimate global and national news reporting about a decade ago, and I don’t recall anybody mourning that. And isn’t that slightly more important?

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    prasrinivara said, 6 months ago

    Actually Guntoting, US newsmedia lost credibility longer-ago than that–as evidenced by the already-oft reference in 1998 of CNN as “Clinton News Network”.

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    GuntotingLiberal said, 6 months ago

    Oh I know, it was bad before, but it really seemed to go down the toilet when Fox decided to go gung-ho infotainment.

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    Jolly1995 said, 6 months ago

    This country will always have newspapers! There are many many people who love their papers and they are never going to enjoy a computer the same way. The computer is an excellent supplement to the paper only!

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    Radical-Knight said, 6 months ago

    Very Good, Touché!!
    I can read a newspaper without an internet connection, electricity or batteries. If I drop a newspaper, it might get damp but I don’t have to get it repaired.

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    twright64 said, 6 months ago

    As long as the New York Slimes and
    the Atlanta Urinal-Constipation
    go under. Maybe the Washington
    Pist and the LA Slimes, too.
    
    Most, if not all, major newspapers,
    as well as all network & cable news
    except FNC are nothing but Obama
    cheerleaders. And that’s a pathetic
    situation since the US Constitution
    gives the news a special place in
    our republic.

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    jamadison4 said, 6 months ago

    ,
    Aliens from Outer Space are behind this. They Control the Vertical, the Horizonal, and most of the Global Media….. Cable, E-Media, Entertainment, and the FCC are firmly in the tenacles of OverLord Rupert, Supreme Commander of the Inter-Galactic Invasion Fleets…..

    Only Captain Eddie and the Kids stand in the way of total mind-control;……..they, of course, have the desided advantage.

    .
    ,

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    GNWachs said, 6 months ago

    So many liberals are so used to getting the selected news that editors choose to run they don’t realize there are a plethora of alternative sources. When CBS (Dan Rather) and the NYT tried to nudge the election to the Dems by fabricating data it was an independent news source that showed Rather was presenting fake data. You only get the news that fits in with their long term social justice/statism goal.

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    cleokaya said, 6 months ago

    It truly astounds me. When it comes to politics people seem blind to anything other than their own bias.

    As for newspapers, I enjoy reading and holding a paper. I live in a small city of about 70,000. Our newspaper is far from great and it is shrinking as we speak, but it is my only source for local news. I can go on line for national news, but if our paper folds it will really be a loss. There are no other viable sources for passing on local in depth coverage of local events.

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    prasrinivara said, 6 months ago

    Also, there are countries where newspapers still enjoy major circulation (India, UK, …)–a copy of London Times is much better than any US paper, even for coverage of US news than one of any US-based paper.

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    Doctor Toon said, 6 months ago

    Our local paper has run commentary from the editor explaining why they feel secure financially. It’s family owned, not corporate. Their focus is on the local and regional.

    cleokaya - Your local paper sound just like ours.

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    GNWachs said, 6 months ago

    “Personally, I’m sick of the “liberal media bias” meme. It’s disingenuous and it’s inaccurate.”

    ---

    There are now only 5 newspapers that have a full time staff in Washington DC. The editorial board of four of them “endorsed” Obama and one made no endorsement.
    After the 2004 election a poll showed 92% of full time political reporters where Democrats. If you don’t believe there is a liberal media bias name one national news source other than Fox that skews conservative. Your choices are from NYT, WP, LAT, CBS, NBC, ABC, Time, Newsweek and Murdock.
    It doesn’t really matter if the editor of your Hometown Daily Bugle is a Republican that is not where the public gets its news.

21. 

    Larry said, 6 months ago

    to the cable news channels of course :)

22. 

    Richard said, 6 months ago

    It gets to where a person cannot earn a dishonest dollar anymore.

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    bmonk said, 6 months ago

    @BirishB, the other side of that is that the media give the people what sells, so there must be plenty of people who want to be entertained “with loud, screaming voices rather than inform[ed]…with facts.” Or endless dirt on “celebrities” whose main fame seems to be based on being famous, and so on. We get the media we deserve, just as representative states get the governments the people deserve.

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    BirishB said, 6 months ago

    There is appreciable irony in the fact that some folks (ahem … ^) tout their own desire to get more informed, but then denounce others for going “on and on” with an informed opinion.

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    danielsangeo said, 6 months ago

    “After the 2004 election a poll showed 92% of full time political reporters where Democrats.”

    As if the political persuasion of the reporters were a gauge of how skewed a news source is…

    Let’s look at the actual CONTENT this time:

    From the primaries to the election:
    Obama: 72% news stories negative
    McCain: 57% news stories negative

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    Roto13 said, 6 months ago

    Newspapers either have to adapt or die. A lot of them are choosing to die.

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    AKHenderson said, 6 months ago

    The environmentalists must be happy – fewer newspapers = more trees.

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    cleokaya said, 6 months ago

    You know this whole business about hating a commenter because their opinion differs from your own is so proving my point about being biased. Why can’t a person disagree with someone’s comment. It isn’t threatening you. It doesn’t diminish your comment. It simply presents another side. If a person can’t stand to be challenged, it shows a lack of selfl-confidence.

29. 

    Kaero said, 6 months ago

    I love you, Cleokaya. (Oh, gosh…that’s just the flip side of the coin we were talking about, isn’t it? D’oh!)

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    bmonk said, 6 months ago

    @cleokaya, in my experience, that sort of attitude often comes when we know that we are right and consistent in all our ideas. In that case, anyone who disagrees with us is stupid or evil, if not both, and worthy of hatred in either case. (For examples, consider the partisans in politics.)

    It takes a bigger person to admit that we may be wrong, or even that we both may be right, just having different values and starting points. Then we might have to actually listen to the other person and (horrors!) be open to change.

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    DirtyDragon said, 6 months ago

    GNWachs: The Washington Post has a rather conservative editorial board these days, Ben Bradlee hasn’t been running the paper for a long time now. The LA Times is part of Tribune Company, which is conservative. Murdoch has a lot of voices out there between print and television. Most of radio news has a very conservative slant. And the cherry on the top is the right-wing editorial slant of the Associated Press (see: Ron Fournier), which appears in most every paper nationwide. The never-ending whining about “liberal media bias” is the true canard - although I can appreciate that the conservatives “got nothin’” at this point, so what else are you going to do, right?

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    DirtyDragon said, 6 months ago

    And oh yes, concerning the strip today, I think we’ll get by without newspapers (sorry, cartoonists).. with the exception of investigative reporting - I’m not sure that blogging and boutique online news operations are going to be able to pick up the slack on keeping government and business honest.

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    JonD17 said, 6 months ago

    BirishB, I used to have a lot of respect for what you had to say…. as of today, however I have none. pookid, i think you have chosen a great name for yourself. Now will both of you take your $%^# slinging back to SOTU where it is more appropriate.
    ………………………….
    Edited/corrected.
    
    Yes I did Margueritem. thank you so much for catching my erroneous name assignment.

34. 

    Margueritem said, 6 months ago

    JonD17: I think that you meant BirishB, not bmonk.

35. 

    JonD17 said, 6 months ago

    I am sure you have pookid.