Sometimes I feel that I would just like to Slug these little slugs. Well, I know I would. At least then a Republican leaning person woud get some news time.

All joking aside. This is really scary stuff.

there have come to be so many monopolies and chains. I can’t think of many places with less in common than Alaska and California, but McClatchy owns half the papers in CA and the Anchorage Daily News, the dominant paper in Alaska. Now, everybody in Alaska knows that the ADN is a leftwing rag from California, but still, they read the thing in the morning and other more sane papers around the State pick up ADN stories as does the AP.

Morris Communications’ flagship paper is the Augusta (GA) Chronicle, the oldest continuously published paper in the US, but Morris also owns the Juneau Empire and a couple other Alaska papers as well as some radio stations. As long as the old man was still in charge of the company, the Morris editors and publishers were usually sane and the Empire was a reasonable and even somewhat conservative voice in Alaska. Under the son and in and out of bankruptcy, Morris really needs some adult supervision and the Empire has turned hard left. It is also so poor now that mostly it just reprints AP and ADN stories. The only thing that sells it is habit, the Police Blotter, Juneau’s society pages, and the Classifieds.

One thing I find particularly galling now that most papers have gone online and have comments sections for each article is the fact that the lefties dominate the comments. First, they’re obviously more into commenting on news stories than conservative, most of whom have jobs, are, but the really galling thing is most papers use a “Report Abuse” function that after some number, and usually its pretty low, of abuse reports, a comment is taken down automatically. A conservative CANNOT comment on a Juneau Empire article or editorial; the comment won’t last five minutes. The lefties and greenies just get on their phone tree and all of them “Report Abuse” and the conservative opinion just disappears. So much for freedom of speech.

I recently wrote a diary about Mattie Fein and 10 others with the courage to run for office in a district like this. I expect reporters to work extra hard for the Ds in the districts that are at play, but now I see they do this even in the most safe of districts.

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Activists Taking Action: Unified Patriots

with the email. The ads targeted to potential subscribers as well as advertisers practically write themselves. And suffice to say no republican campuign ad dollars for the wheeze.

Seems to me, if the newspaper is so blatantly biased, one could make a legal case that any business advertising in the newspaper should not be tax deductible because it’s basically a political rag, not independent newspaper. Advertising in such a rag should be considered a political donation, not business advertising. IMHO….

Bitter, to say the least.

http://www.insidesocal.com/southbay/2010/08/in-the-news-business-people.html

Conservatives and Republicans just openly make fun of and mock the MSM every chance they get. Go on Chris Matthews and ask him if he has been drinking, call him on working for Jimmy Carter, laugh openly and call him an idiot.

You see it does not matter because they HATE us already. Conservative or even centrists with an “R” beside their name will never get a fair shake (unless they are David Brooks castigating conservatives)

So go on TV and make them lose their cool call them biased hacks who work for the DNC, call them Rahm’s buttboy. Show the world they are a joke,

Why don’t some of the conservatives that are rich, buy out these newspapers
that are going broke so that we could have a fair and balance newspaper for once. Maybe they could start with The New York Times.mehpensacola.fl

The local free weeklies are longer and more informative.

And then there’s the fact that one of their sportswriters (Bob Cox) left to become Assistant Superintendent of the Centinela Valley School District, and is able to get any story killed which would reflect badly on the district officials.

I would like to see businesses take their advertising some where else

42 of them are devoted to the Republican response.

The rest is a glowing report about all the wonderful things that will come from this $26 billion bailout.

Not a word about what will happen NEXT year when the money is gone. No mention of why the bailed out states are in this jam to begin with other than “hard hit by recession” (Bush’s fault). Yeah, and in boom times these states had budget surpluses right?