The problem is that the newspapers, especially, have made themselves redundant.

Rightists won’t read them because they’re unrelentingly insulting. Leftists don’t read them because they’re repetitive and redundant, a brief mention of the putative subject followed by an attack on Rightists, especially Bush. The Right doesn’t like them, and the Left doesn’t need them. That leaves them with an audience consisting of slack-jaws who salivate at blood and car crashes, and that audience doesn’t have any money.

And since they did it to themselves, with gusto whilst crowing about their virtue, sympathy is distinctly absent.

Regards,
Ric