[padcrasher]

Do you get objective reporting? Diverse Commentary? Competitive Ad rates? Full range of opinion? Accuracy?

The Columbia Journalism Review and the American Journalism Reveiw were both down on the paper ten years ago...... Has anything changed?

wikipedia

" A 1998 American Journalism Review survey acknowledged The Oklahoman's positive contributions as a corporate citizen of Oklahoma, but characterized the paper as suffering from understaffing, uninspired content, and political bias.[2] In 1999, the Columbia Journalism Review published an article calling The Oklahoman the "Worst Newspaper in America"; the CJR cited the paper's conformance to the right-wing political views of the Gaylord family, alleged racist hiring practices, and high costs of ads.[3][4]"

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[Oildog]

Well Oklahomans and many in the oil patch tend to be hard working conservative folks. Many have a strong lean to vote republican, and place high importance on family values. I would guess the paper may reflect this.

[Synopsis]

As far as I know, it's doing fine. It's not floundering like a lot of newspapers across the nation.

[padcrasher]

Originally Posted by Oildog

Well Oklahomans and many in the oil patch tend to be hard working conservative folks. Many have a strong lean to vote republican, and place high importance on family values. I would guess the paper may reflect this.

Nothing wrong with that.

The problem arises when a paper goes overboard with the ideology and stops printing the minority's side of things all together.

[StillwaterTownie]

Originally Posted by padcrasher

Do you get objective reporting? Diverse Commentary? Competitive Ad rates? Full range of opinion? Accuracy?

The Columbia Journalism Review and the American Journalism Reveiw were both down on the paper ten years ago...... Has anything changed?

wikipedia

" A 1998 American Journalism Review survey acknowledged The Oklahoman's positive contributions as a corporate citizen of Oklahoma, but characterized the paper as suffering from understaffing, uninspired content, and political bias.[2] In 1999, the Columbia Journalism Review published an article calling The Oklahoman the "Worst Newspaper in America"; the CJR cited the paper's conformance to the right-wing political views of the Gaylord family, alleged racist hiring practices, and high costs of ads.[3][4]"

The Worst Newspaper in America.
How to hook the public.

Well, since the passing of old man Gaylord and the firing of a fanantical editorial writer who regularly ranted on passing right to work, cutting taxes and being anti gay, some has changed for the better at the Oklahoman. However, it's editorial page is still, generally speaking, just a ***** sheet with few interesting ideas for change, especially from the letters to the editor.

The editorial writer was not dismissed for his editorial content, but rather for his unauthorized use of Oklahoman stationery to support fund raising for a political candidate he supported.