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Posted by: Dakota 1 month, 2 weeks agoA round-up of the recent media layoffs.
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1-2-Oscar1 month, 2 weeks ago
The print media, following the lead of the broadcast media, has devoted far too much of its resources to subjects which have no real bearing on people's lives, and it has failed miserably in its proclaimed obligation to report the facts, fully, accurately, and quickly.
The principal managers of dozens of newspapers and magazines DESERVE to be fired. Unfortunately, they will take down a few hundred honest employees before they go.
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Beau78901 month, 2 weeks ago
I agree that newspaper editors often make terrible decisions about what to publish, but it's not always those in charge of the daily operations of newspapers who deserve to go.
This week, the publisher of the LA Times and the executive editor of the Chicago Tribune (both owned by the Tribune Company) announced their resignations in response to drastic cost-cutting measures planned for their papers. (The Tribune Company was recently bought by Sam Zell, a real-estate magnate who has no experience in media.) And the editors-in-chief of the NY Times and Washington Post also stepped down within the last month.
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rightfromwrong1 month, 1 week ago
The people who should go are the ones who toe the line to the Bush neo-con agenda with their deception and propaganda.
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AnteUp1 month, 1 week ago
Beau7890 ~
I heard months ago that the LA Times - noted for investigative
reporting pieces - might have to give up that honored dept.
I remember a 4-parter on WalMart. They went where few others
have had the guts to go. They will be missed.
Where I sit right now - in front of the computer - was
given as the reason for the coming demise of the print media.
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Edmar141 month, 1 week ago
According to all of your previous posts about the media Oscar, all of the Media in the US is Zionist owned and run. So according to your own accusations, it must be the Jew's fault that the news is manipulated and that all of the honest employees will be fired. Sig Heil 1-2 Oscar.
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1-2-Oscar1 month, 1 week ago
That is an absolute lie, Edmar14. I challenge you, here and now, to produce even ONE post in which I have referred to media as "Zionist owned and run."
You, Edmar14, are an incorrigible liar. I would really like for you to respond to this challenge publicly, so that your tactics will be exposed to every participant on this site.
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antibrainwasher1 month, 2 weeks ago
People are not reading newspapers, they are on the net or watching TV. Newspapers are being bought by mogals like sam Zell, a hard right zioist who bought the chicago Tribune, fired all the reporters and turned it into an advertising tabloid, and the LA Times, which used to win Pulitizers for journalism, Zell gutted the journalist, and turned the LA times, an national treasure into a hard right pro zionist tabloid advertising vehicle. Now, hes trying to sell the lot to rupurt Murdock as a package at an enormous profit.
Any journalist worth a crap is in TV if he can cater to the hard right corporate owners and the hard right operators, like Roger Ailes, on the board of the RJC and AIPAC, creator of fox news and inventor of point of view journalism which has swept all news broadcasting and infotainment tabloidism where the news announcer editorializes everything in a slanted biased way.
Game over for the 4th leg of Democracy.
Good journalist have their own website.
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antibrainwasher1 month, 2 weeks ago
Good journalist have their own website, or are just laying low, not being assigned to research the lies for going to war, not being assigned to cover americas insane relation revolving door bewteen the hard right zionist American Enterprise institute and the presidential advisers like wolfawitz who invented the Iraq war, journalists not being assigned to cover the revolving door between political office and the CEO's of the military industrial complex, like Cheney and Rumsfeld, journalist not covering any of Cheneys financing and training of terrorists to invade Iran from across the boarder in Iraq, trying to stir up a reasong to release the airforce and navy for a nation building bombing campaign, the 3rd front, journalists not covering the massive protests in Czech rep. against star wars silos, build by boeing after being awarded a 13 billion dollar contract for the non working system, but hey, that much money, have to do something right, like restart the cold war.
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antibrainwasher1 month, 2 weeks ago
but good journalists with their own website cannot fund year long research to expose that Sadam had no yellow cake uranium, or the massive research and legal backup from the hundred million dollar law suits when you start investigating Murdock for hiring pentagon psy ops plants and carrying out the propanda campaign for the invasion of Iraq.
The hard right corporate American media has an army of lawyers, and will sue the crap out of anyone trying to change their hold on money and power. They also will fire any journalist who trys to expose the republican war machine, or the corruption in the republican political machine.
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BB641 month, 1 week ago
Wow, how do you function with your head so far up your butt you can actually see your own teeth? The press covers any and all screw ups of CEO's. That is unless you're a large donor for the DNC, that's why Country Wide's problems are still unknown to many.
As to the Czech's protesting, massive? 200 people is massive to you? They were former toadies to the KGB or FSS. You want massive, don't build the anti missile system and let one of Iranian hit something important.
As to working or not, from all tests, the new US based system will be effective.
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Edmar141 month, 1 week ago
So, let me get this straight- If people are not reading newspapers and some Jew buys the Chicago Tribune, fires the reporters and turns it into an advertising tabloid, that isn't his right under our system? And if Zell wants to sell what he has purchased at a profit to anybody that wants to pay that price it is illegal and immoral? You sanctimonious idiot!!!! I don't hear you groaning and complaining about any of the banks being bought and sold at profits, or any of the numerous companies that are being gobbled up by larger corporations at unheard of profits. I only hear of one person who happens to be Jewish. Since this is a pattern that seems to emerge almost daily from your posts, I can tell you without hesitation that your comments are pure hate and have no merit on this thread.
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antibrainwasher1 month, 1 week ago
Well, capatilism is your religion and solution to every problem moron, who is supposed to investigate corruption by the government? What is the 4th leg of democracy, or didn't they teach you that at enron, where you probably worked before you were transfered to PR at exon.
Your regime, your beloved worshipped rove/cheney/fox news/ drug lamebaugh/ point of view/ right wing/ exon worshipping/ anti science/ home schooled/ mega billionaire brown nosing regime has ruined your precious capatilistic economy. 10% of americans own 85% of all stock. Of those 10%, .1 percent own 50%.
I can tell your brainwashed by the 100% muslim hating racist 100% zionist corporate media, so your moronic ramblings have no merit on this thread, or even in the bunker of the alabama milita where you post.
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saintetienne1 month, 1 week ago
"turned the LA times, an national treasure into a hard right pro zionist tabloid advertising vehicle"
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! Do you even READ the L.A. Times? If you did, you'd soon see it's far, FAR from being "hard right". It's so left-leaning, we have a nickname for it: "The Trotsky Times".
brainwash, you're a nut!
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antibrainwasher1 month, 2 weeks ago
When Dan Rather was fired, it was game over for journalist. The Corporation that should have backed Dan Rather, whether he was right or wrong, determined that the backlash from the Walmart patriotic chinese 'merican fleg waving evangelicals, who the Corporations sold billions of dollars of commercials to, who they wrote moronic tv programming for, the corporation decided they should fire Dan Rather for running a story critical of Bush, and exposing his AWOL status in the Texas National Guard during war time.
When Rather was fired for investigating this, unlike the watergate investigation, when enourmous pressure and law suit threats were pouring in, the NEWSPAPER had the balls to not fire Woodward and Bernstein, and Nixon was defacto impeached (resigned). Not so with the current hard right 100% zionist, 100% for profit, corporate owned and operated ABC/Disney /Israel, NBC/General Electric/ Universal/ CBS/Westinghouse Fox News/news corp/ murdock and viacom, hard right zionist.
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DropkickaLib1 month, 1 week ago
Rather didn't do his homework and used an unreliable source. He paid the price.
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BB641 month, 1 week ago
Dan and company was caught creating news with the Killian documents. His staff some how came across a set of "official" documents. Subsequently, several typewriter and typography experts concluded the documents are forgeries, as have some media sources. Wouldn't you think with all of Danny's "instincts and abilities" he would have realized they were fake? If they would have been real, they would have been been typed. The documents were clearly a windows based print. Even though they were faxed copies, it's clear they were fake. Then again, like all liberal media outlets, any attack on President Bush is a good thing, fake or otherwise. That's why the media continues to lose share to the Simpson's...
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antibrainwasher1 month, 1 week ago
that's your right wing propanda machine at work. Rather had extensive interviews with the document finders and had backed up each document. He didn't invent anyhthing, thatof course is a lie, invented by the 100% right wing corporate media.
The the left wing media, where is that exactly? NBC/Gneral electric? All those corpoate boards, all those stock holders, 100% for profit, where's the liberal bias? ABC/ Disney/ owned and operated by right wing zionist/ held by a banking hege fund in Israel or perhaps Viacom radio owned by Sumner Redstone, hard right billionare major donor to RJC, or Fox news, operator and CEO Roger Ailes, on the board of RJC and AIPAC, or SAM Zell, owner tribune Group.
If you think the 100% for profit right wing media is liberal biased, you are a complete brainwashed zombie.
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antibrainwasher1 month, 2 weeks ago
When the hard right white house hires tony snow, and the hard right fox news infotainment propanga machine point of view journalism hard pro zionist (Roger Ailes) hires freaking Karl Rove.....and still remains the top rated news cast in the country, its a reflection of the gullibility of this country.
50% of americans think science and evolution are just BS liberal crap.
80% of americans cannot name the vice president.
90% of americans cannot name the secretary of defence. 90% of americans can name britney spears.
Its a power vacuum, and the republicans have harnessed it, and are encouraging more of the same by killing public schools, and financing home schools and religious creationist schools.
GAME OVER. This is NOT a democracy anymore. TAke the bill of rights and line your bird cage. Take the constitution and wipe your arse with it. When less that 50% of americans even vote, its game over.
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buckncindykill1 month, 2 weeks ago
"50% of americans think science and evolution are just BS liberal crap."
You misspoke. It should say; 50% of Americans think the science of evolution is just liberal crap.
"80% of americans cannot name the vice president.
90% of americans cannot name the secretary of defence. 90% of americans can name britney spears"
No power vacuum here. It's not republicans/democrats. The school system is broken, needs a fresh perspective. Maybe a little critical pedagogy is needed to change the course of public education. Our society is pop culture oriented, not current events oriented. That's not a republican problem, it's a societal problem.
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vor1 month, 1 week ago
"80% of americans cannot name the vice president."
Frightening considering the damage he has done. If you don't know who Cheney is you assume that Bush is the sole source of blame. Whereas in reality it is the neocon beliefs that Cheney brought with him that have caused so much trouble. Domestically and abroad.
Most of my co-workers desire to live in a vacuum. Isolated from the news and glued to shows like American Idol. In my area most are pre-defined as Republicans so they vote that way. But I also know plenty of Obama supporters who cannot discuss the issues or his positions and that is just as bad. Maybe they will wake up as things start crashing down. If losing 20% of your retirement stock value or having to prepare to cash out your accounts at the bank you have been with 30 years doesn't wake you up I don't know what will.
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antibrainwasher1 month, 1 week ago
"You misspoke. It should say; 50% of Americans think the science of evolution is just liberal crap."
ANd there he/she is, a card carrying ignorant moron who thinks along with the villiage idiot president she/he voted for, that evolution is just liberal crap.
Evolution, the basis of biology and biochemistry, sociology, sociobiology, geology, chemistry, physics, is just a bunch of liberal crap.
Witness the reason the republican revolution, or the richest .000015% harnsing the power of the army of evangelical morons, is sucessful.
You're a great republican BuCi, vote republican, vote to promote BuCi to a policy making position in the McSenile administration, probably in the research grant awarding department.
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rightfromwrong1 month, 2 weeks ago
actually he is much close than you give him credit for. America is run by AIPAC which is a front for the Bilderbergs and corporate fascism. Some of those killed are Jack & Bobby Kennedy, Martin Luther & Malcolm X. Nothing will change in America until a person like Ron Paul get elected. Obama has been giving his marching orders and McCain is an automatic follower of the "New World Order"
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antibrainwasher1 month, 1 week ago
Ron Paul, who would turn the country into a weak federal collection of fuedilist states controlled by multibillionaires paying no taxes and controlling their own militias, is the typical texas wart on the arse of right wing corporatist who love libertarians and austrian economics because it frees them to pollute as much as they want, enslave their employees by paying below minimum wage, and paying no health care, and having no medicare, social secuirity, or any responsibilities to their employees.
Ross Preot controlls west texas, the Bass Brothers control the fudalistic nation state of dallas/Fort worth, and so on through out the country.
If a billionaire wants your property, he'll buy it, or his militia will visit in the night.
Vote Paul, because Cheney would love it.
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JamesMarcus1 month, 1 week ago
Martin Luther King was killed by AIPAC? And so was Malcolm X, with the Nation of Islam operating as a Zionist cutout organization? That is quite a scenario.
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antibrainwasher1 month, 1 week ago
Well, sketpic, it's rather easy to just throw insults like a yellow bellied coward and provice no substance of your own, but then that's pretty much the definition of a republican nowadays.
Vote skeptic, vote republican, because 'merica needs some more vacuum headed moron swiftboating aholes to run everything.
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thoughtforsale1 month, 2 weeks ago
Maybe, the print media is standing at a turning point. The internet has caused very different habits of reception and the question is, if (and:if yes, in how far)the newspaper industry has to adapt to the facts. As I see it, there are two ways to react: Either one could only publish online in future, giving in to the continiously sinking number of black-on-white readers, or one could try to make the appearent anachronism of a touchable, foldable and shareable newspaper a sign of quality, perhaps even something intellectually elitist. But the most important charge now, if this will not already have been a kind of agony, is to win new readers among the youngsters. Schools should get the possibility to offer free reading for a certain time, the online versions should not replace the print versions any more, but help to get deeper into some subjects and share your opinion with other readers. I am looking forward every morning to my daily newspaper, and I hope that print media will survive!
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antibrainwasher1 month, 1 week ago
That's a quote from the X-files movie. Vote Paul, because the truth is out there, its aliens.
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saintetienne1 month, 1 week ago
"Newspapers forgot that they were supposed to provide the news and not just Bush propoganda."
I know. Constant propaganda that puts Bush in a bad light is just one of the reasons so many readers cancelled their subscription to the Milwaukee Urinal. Er....I mean, Journal. And it's the reason I stopped reading the Trotsky Times....er, Los Angeles Times, years ago.
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markmawn21 month, 1 week ago
It's more like this. Wealthy wannabe media mogul wants to buy media outlet. He pays top dollar. To recover the cost of the purchase, corners have to be cut. To generate more revenue, all controversial or overpaid journalists are told to accept cuts in Insurance or benefits, or leave. Wannabe mogul accepts advertising dollars from corporations that do not sell products to consumers. Mogul wants to give self a bonus of $1 Billion for showing profit in first year of media purchase.
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ningyo1 month, 1 week ago
i think its very socially insensitive to call this massive lay-off of the dem campaign staff "black wednesday"..we cant say black hole or black belt or blackberry anymore..somehow african-american wednesday doesnt have the same zip--maybe danrather wednesday or jessewednesday--although since these are people working for the obama campaign and democrats in general ..maybe black wednesday is sort of kind of accurate..but then we have blue monday and black friday too..so much to polically correct ..so little time
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aniokly1 month, 1 week ago
10 years ago, at a family dinner surrounded by old people who just recently learned to use the computer, i predicted in 20 years all your news would be on the Computer. Instead of going to the icy porch in the winter you will take your coffee to the computer room. They laughed at me. Now they are learning to use the computer before life passes them by.
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