This is a highly informative and illuminating posting. While I had noted that most newpapers credited AP, the NYT, and WP, I had been unaware of the monopolistic hold of the AP in the industry. It explains why, in Seattle – one of the very few cities of its size that still has two morning dailies – they run almost identical news pages and match each other in leftist venom in heir editorial columns. This in a city where at least 40% vote Republican.
But the fact is that if a truly objective news service was available they would not use it.
I can think of no other industry where the entrepreneurial instincts are so completely throttled. Such an industry deserves to die.
Combine such a monopoly with a journalistic profession taught that their function is not to observe accurately and report objectively but to look at all things from a “social activist” point of view and you wind up with a majority of the electorate inadequately informed to make a decision.
There is another dimension of this problem: the strategy of editors to simply ignore any effort to correct errors or acknowledge criticism. They simply continue to repeat the mistruth,arrogant in their sense of security. The same strategy applies to television. Fox News may have the largest single audience but the aggregate of the others is vastly larger.
The blog world, thank God, offers some relief for truth-seekers but probably influences no more than 15% of all voters. And a high number of that percentage come across as nut cases on one side or the other.
The Socialist Part is moribund, its membership at an all-time low. But the universities and colleges are cranking out graduates who are euro-style socialists but are so dumb they just think they are Democrats. And they have taken over the news industry. I admire your efforts but despair that, like Canada, ours will become a Socialist government without anyone having really voted for it.
