"There's No Mea Culpa Among Liberal Newspaper Journalists These Days"

Washington state-based Gerard Vanderleun on the death of the paper version of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer:

The death of the P.I. and its “life in death” on the Web is only the second in a trend that will grow. And as the other papers fail into the Web we will hear, again and again, about the Internet, about Craigslist, about The Drudge Report, and a hundred other reasons these papers are dead. What we will never hear is that their editorial policies and news slanting were part and parcel of their demise. We will never hear about the willed insults, slights, and snubbing of fully half of their potential circulation pool. Journalists and editors write a lot about “taking personal responsibility” when it comes to others. You never hear them write that about themselves. There’s no mea culpa among liberal newspaper journalists these days. There’s only “The Internet ate my newspaper.”

In-farging-deed, to mash-together the favorite phrases of a pair of popular new media mavens.

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