Recently the Washington Post announced that they were putting their weekly liberal opinion magazine Newsweek up for sale after recording horrific financial and readership losses. And about the same time, CNN and CBS announced that they were in talks to consolidate their news operations.
What ties these two stories together? Well, to paraphrase Eason Jordan, CNN’s former chief news executive, all three outfits fell victim to The News They Kept To Themselves:
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- The story that created the legacy media.
- Newsweek’s Koran-in-the-can moment and its retraction.
- Hey, let’s run the same cover story every week!
- America is a land of diverse political views...except when it isn’t.
- Some industries deserve bankruptcy.
- Is Newsweek the canary in the MSM’s coalmine?
- Is there a dictator CNN hasn’t propped up?
- ‘Twas the Night Before ObamaCare at CBS…
- Document Dan cooks the books.
- Eason Jordan comes clean.
- Ad lib a tease!
So what does it all mean? Tune in here to see!
My favorite piece of regular trash in the rag was “Who’s up, Who’s Down. You needn’t guess as to the type or kind that was always up, and who was always reprehensibly and disgracefully down, replete with the high school sarcasm that couldn’t be restrained by the emotionally challenged staff.
Ed, I loved the front cover list, amazing! You would think some minor attempt at balance to partially offset the brazen pimping would occur to these presumed adults.
No luck. Anyway, I’ve got a spare $20, might take a flier & make an offer.
When it comes to Liberal inspired news; the old saying really does hold true: No news, is good news.
Understand the affect the Internet has on “the powers that be” in controlling the message has not been lost.
No less then the “Anointed One” hisself has redoubled efforts to muzzle bloggers, With the “must link opposing views” dictate.
When you are drawing flack, you know you’re over the target.
All that said; this is one Genie that won’t go back in the bottle without losing a world war.
Long live Pajamas At The Gate: Making life difficult for Statists, the world over.
I think this report is extremely unfair. These fine, upstanding stalwarts of the mainstream media once tried to be “fair and balanced” but their viewers were simply too unsophisticated to comprehend the narrative and react appropriately. Something had to be done, otherwise citizens would never bring acceptable candidates into office. We owe them a debt of thanks. /sarc
Newsweek has a terrible staff of writers. People can’t find anything interesting to read in Newsweek any more. While they were always a liberal rag, a long time ago they had a readership niche somewhere between Time and US News & World Report and they wrote about many subjects that were relatively free from socialist propaganda politics. But, like all of the MSM, as the talent pool thinned they became more of a clearing house for the socialist agenda.
I have a suggestion: recognize the newly-discovered, hygienic, unintended purpose of “NEWS”WEEK,and sell it to Procter&Gamble.They can then fire the resident scribblers, and use the existing plant to market it as an upscale type of slick,”bound”(pink) toilet paper,suitable for progressives traveling to those countries “NEWS”WEEK recommends we imitate,like Cuba.