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I don't take the paper from Denver myself, but could this have had anything to do with the fact that over the past 20 years, Republicans -- led ever further to the right by fundies, neocons, and corporatists -- have been running more and more extremists and ideologues for office and fewer and fewer actual politicians?
Funny - I didn't see a single comment saying that they cancelled the paper due to a right-wing slant. Lots of comments saying the paper was going left-wing.
Maybe time for editors and newspaper owners to take a hard look at the objectivity of the newsroom.
Oh, it's long, long past time for this. That is, in a SANE business model. Newspapers have bizarrely decided that consciously antagonizing and attacking almost half of their potential buyers and advertisers will somehow work out in the end. They have chosen ideology over their businesses' viability....that's what it boils down to.
Actually, the piece of trash Examiner was mentioned in Post-77. And despite what extremists may believe, the typical newspaper is conservative and to the right of center. It's just that some people are so far from the center that anything in that direction looks like a leftist rag to them.
My bet is that you actually are soooo far left that everything else looks rightwing. (And I kind of know your territory: ex-Jerry Brown campaigner, Jesse Jackson delegate, Green Party activist, union rep, Bernie Sanders supporter, etc. etc. etc. here........but I know: all of that leftist activism puts me just slightly to the left of Genghis Khan in your eyes...)
I stopped subscribing to our local newspaper because I can get all the news I want, when and where I want it, online. Even better -- its free.
Might it be that our political viewpoints have moved, not the papers'. That could make it seem as though the papers' viewpoint moved.
I say this because I have noted that, as they grow older, many of my friends' political opinions have gradually shifted. Most moved toward the right. I think I read - somewhere - that this is fairly common.
I stopped subscribing to our local newspaper because I can get all the news I want, when and where I want it, online. Even better -- its free.
Might it be that our political viewpoints have moved, not the papers'. That could make it seem as though the papers' viewpoint moved.
I say this because I have noted that, as they grow older, many of my friends' political opinions have gradually shifted. Most moved toward the right. I think I read - somewhere - that this is fairly common.
You might be interested in this major MIT study which quantified the major shift in newspapers' political ideology over the last 50 years. It's only gotten more pronounced since the study. (And then, of course, there is the qualitative evidence...which to me is even more robust.....)
Pathetic. Newspapers exist to make a profit in the traditional business model. If you know of any successful non-profit newspapers, do spill.
I was fond of the free AM New York handed out by hobos on the subway in Manhattan.
Some of the journalism was more mature than what I received from paid newspapers.
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