They should have been printing comics all along. People do read the comics,
even if they dont read the "news".
On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 12:21 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> October 24, 2008
> americanthinker.com
> Ed Lasky
>
> "Garbage-in, garbage-out" finds a new meaning, as the decline of its
> journalistic practice is now matched by the New York Times Company's
> financial status.
>
> We at American Thinker, particularly our publisher Tom Lifson, have
> long chronicled the New York Times' history of journalistic failure
> and corporate decline. In the incapable hands of family scion, Arthur
> ("Pinch") Sulzberger, Jr. the paper has taken an agenda-driven
> approach to the news, trying to "force feed" the Democratic agenda to
> its readers -- and to the other media outlets that follow its lead.
> The editorial page has, of course, followed along; the home of several
> columnists who seem to rewrite their own columns and pass them off as
> new ones or engage in an emotional frenzy against any and all
> Republicans.
>
> Readership has declined. The journalistic mistakes have been
> compounded by a long series of management miscues (bad investments in
> About.Com, the Boston Globe and other newspaper properties purchased
> at top princes just as earnings were about to go over a cliff). Pinch
> Sulzberger has overseen the decline, cosseted by a shareholder
> structure that empowers his family at the expense of common
> shareholders.
>
> Isn't it long past the time that he should accept responsibility for
> his mistakes, exactly as the paper insists a long line of Republicans
> do? Time to fall on the sword and let more capable management attekpt
> to save the family patrimony.
> Frankly, the Times has become far too predictable -- and so was the
> latest action by Standard and Poors rating agency, which cut the
> corporate debt of the New York Times company to "junk" status.
> >
>
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