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On Sun, 28 Dec 2008 09:00:10 -0500, John H wrote:


Bush Bashing was the forte of the Washington Post. That's why their
subscriptions have plummeted.


Well, it's difficult to right anything truthful about the most
incompetent President in recent history, without looking like you are
"bashing".


http://tinyurl.com/9nu9st

Their net income hasn't looked too good for the past few years.


Seeing that you have been asleep the past decade, I'll inform you, it
isn't "Bush bashing" that is causing problems with most newspapers. It's
the internet.



It's always a bit of a grin, as it were, to read the political spins of
those right-wingers who have swallowed so much of the party pablum that
they have a ready but simple-minded and usually wrong rationalization
for everything in life, such as "If the Post hadn't bashed Bush so much,
the paper would be doing better financially."

Certainly the internet has hit the newspaper business hard, as have the
24-7 cable news channels and the increasing reluctance of much of the
population to, well, read. Reading a good newspaper requires a bit of
time and concentration, and it is much easier to absorb a few sound
bites from cable news.

Some of the really loony righties on the gun boards are overjoyed at the
slide of newspapers, because they believe they'll do better with the
general populace by confining "news" to blogs that are easier to control.



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On Sun, 28 Dec 2008 09:22:08 -0500, Boater wrote:

wrote:
On Sun, 28 Dec 2008 09:00:10 -0500, John H wrote:


Bush Bashing was the forte of the Washington Post. That's why their
subscriptions have plummeted.


Well, it's difficult to right anything truthful about the most
incompetent President in recent history, without looking like you are
"bashing".


http://tinyurl.com/9nu9st

Their net income hasn't looked too good for the past few years.


Seeing that you have been asleep the past decade, I'll inform you, it
isn't "Bush bashing" that is causing problems with most newspapers. It's
the internet.



It's always a bit of a grin, as it were, to read the political spins of
those right-wingers who have swallowed so much of the party pablum that
they have a ready but simple-minded and usually wrong rationalization
for everything in life, such as "If the Post hadn't bashed Bush so much,
the paper would be doing better financially."

Certainly the internet has hit the newspaper business hard, as have the
24-7 cable news channels and the increasing reluctance of much of the
population to, well, read. Reading a good newspaper requires a bit of
time and concentration, and it is much easier to absorb a few sound
bites from cable news.

Some of the really loony righties on the gun boards are overjoyed at the
slide of newspapers, because they believe they'll do better with the
general populace by confining "news" to blogs that are easier to control.



Have you ever noticed that many liberals must resort to personal insults in
any discussion.

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