frankwolftown wrote, “I can’t seem to understand how openly biased news will improve anything.”
The honesty will be a breath of fresh air after decades of toxic hidden agendas.
“People seem pissed off enough as it is.”
No amount of open bias will be half as infuriating as CNN’s sandbagging the Republicans at their “debate.”
Even The Manchester Union Leader has called CNN’s dishonest bias “bad journalism.”
CNN’s subsequent stonewalling is enraging.
“Where does this help?”
Open bias offers the change to engage in an honest manner.
Otherwise people are forced to resort to gotcha games, like Don Surber’s “Name that Party.”
“It’s like the article recently published here that Yellow Journalism is a good thing. Can someone tell me what I’m missing here?”
Honesty.
A final note on the economy, from American Journalism Review, Oct/Nov 2007, Newspapers are paying the price for shortsighted thinking.
[Emphasis was in the original.]
“Newspapers’ performance hasn’t been this bad since the 2001 recession, when revenue slipped nearly 6 percent and profit was down more than 26 percent. And this year the nation is not in a recession. But the newspaper industry surely is, and it is worthwhile examining why.”
Oh, and it’s too late for Page 3 girls to save newspapers in the USA, even the tabloids.
