Is found in this headline: “Can Obama Save the Media Industry?”
And from the article:
How long can the Obama-fueled print-run last? That’s unclear, but publishers are banking on increased reader interest and circulation up until the inauguration. The New York Times is hawking, for example, a reprint from the Election Day issue of just the front page; the press plates of the front page; a collection of Obama photographs and a commemorative issue of “Elections & Inauguration: George Washington to Barack Obama.” The St. Petersburg (Fla.) Times, among others, is weighing special sections to insert in its post-Inauguration Day editions. Next week, USA Today and ABC News are jointly releasing a book and DVD titled “America Speaks: The Historic 2008 Election.” Separately, Gannett’s flagship is considering a commemorative edition covering the inauguration.
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I think the Obamatons have some ideas on that
hunter (Diary) Saturday, November 15th at 11:34AM EST (link)hunter
I say, let them have at it.....
jonreagan (Diary) Saturday, November 15th at 11:49AM EST (link)The media gush-fest continues, and is getting truly sickening. Two outrages that I picked up on this week:
1) CNN reported last night (Friday) that yet another person (affiliated with the Boston Celtics) has reported being bitten by Barney, the ferocious White House Scottie! PEOPLE–has it come to this? The loony left’s hatred of President Bush is leading them to attack a small dog??? For what it’s worth, I’ve had Soctties for 15 years without one such incident; the breed is very reserved, and they don’t bite unless taunted or attacked.
2) Perhaps the low point came during Tuesday night’s edition of “Law and Order, SVU”, where producer Dick Wolf continues to use the show to advance his own leftist social commentary. This episode attempted to mock an “abstinence club” at a Catholic H/S, with a story line of four girls who agreed to rebel by getting pregnant. The scheme gets discovered; one of the girls, confronted by her parents screams,
“what’s wrong with getting pregnant? That vice-president lady’s daugher did it!” This is the cheapest shot I can remember against Gov. Palin, bar none.
Looking ahead, the more the media and/or TV shows attempt to demonize conservatives and glorify Obama, the higher his expectations go. And the higher the climb, the worse the fall, when people ultimately realize that the Emperor has no clothes. So media bias? At least for now, have at it.
Media
jcheney Saturday, November 15th at 12:13PM EST (link)jonreagan:
I did not see that episode of Law and Order, but that is despicable. I saw a program like Law & Order(can’t remember which one) that also tried to soften the issue of “death with dignity.” The message was clear; kill of the people that don’t matter anymore.
In regard to the original post, I think the print media is desperate. The Obama-fest has given them a little bit of revenue and they are looking to cash in on more. I quit taking a newspaper years ago. With cable news and the internet, why bother? I feel I am more informed with these two sources of media than a newspaper.
I can only speak for myself, but I rarely even walk by news stands anymore. If I do, and see a headline, I go home and google it.
Eric Erickson
Scope (Diary) Saturday, November 15th at 12:46PM EST (link)I didn’t know how else to ask you a question, so I am asking it here. I noticed your name over at ReformTheParty website. Is anyone monitoring that site. Some of the language and comments are so gross and beyond lewd it is attracting only the loons. And, the worst of the radical Ron Paul goons have taken it over.
This won't help the newspapers
Augustine Saturday, November 15th at 1:01PM EST (link)As nice as it is to sell some extra copies, the papers have greater issues that Obama can’t really help with apart from outright subsidy. People don’t want to read their product, people don’t like the format, and in this game it is only two strikes and you are out.
“Not everyone born free and equal, as the Constitution says, but everyone made equal. Each man the image of every other; then all are happy, for there are no mountains to make them cower, to judge themselves against.” – Fahrenheit 451
Erick, Jeri Thompson said to tell you Hi
Dave_in_Fla (Diary) Saturday, November 15th at 1:09PM EST (link)I talked to her earlier in the week, and she immediately brought up Redstate and Operation Leper. She told me specifically to tell you hello.
I know this is OT, but it is faster than finding an open topic.
“If they were merely incompetent, then at least SOME of their actions would have been to the benefit of the country.” – Joe McCarthy
This is good
kowalski (Diary) Saturday, November 15th at 1:26PM EST (link)Media bias played an admitted role in Barack Obama’s victory and that has now been attested to by several prominent people including the ombudsman of the Washington Post.
And they have also shown that they’re profiting from the bias.
They have absolutely no reason to call for the reinstatement of the “fairness doctrine.” If their blatant bias gave a boost to “right thinking people” (to paraphrase the Washington Post, and the newspapers were able to make some money off of that, the last thing they should be asking for is government intervention into their business.
It’s a pure Milton Friedman case. Government intervention is wrong, even for the liberals.
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"Can Obama Save the Media Industry?"
Kevin Groenhagen (Diary) Saturday, November 15th at 2:11PM EST (link)I guess it’s not out of line for the media to expect reciprocity.
Didn't you here about the O network?
izoneguy (Diary) Saturday, November 15th at 2:17PM EST (link)Obama & Oprah will team up to create the O channel – All Obama , all the time.
He will outlaw every other media enterprise.
The point cannot be made often enough: Modern liberalism, as embodied in the Obama presidency, is the defender of the status quo. And the status quo is a road to economic ruin. Political forces cannot redistribute the wealth that the economic system does not produce.
The new Pravda
renegade Saturday, November 15th at 2:24PM EST (link)“Can Obama Save the Media Industry?”
Very Easy. With dwindling sales, ratings and profits, the mighty “O” will nationalize them to keep them solvent. The content will be the same since they already are reporting with the accuracy of Pravda, just we will be paying for them through our tax dollars.
In 2004 Law and order
JoeG Saturday, November 15th at 3:01PM EST (link)ran a show where they claimed that GWB and the ‘evil’ Republicans were forcing protesters into a fenced off area during the national convention.
The audacity of the whole thing was that the dems were the one with a convention in Boston, and they were fencing protesters in.
ugh.
jeanedcrusader Saturday, November 15th at 3:16PM EST (link)Good grief! Law and Order is pushing it, really pushing it. I think they’re satirizing or dramatizing or whatever that incident earlier this year where a group of high school girls in a rural town all agreed to get pregnant at the same time, but to throw Palin in there is reprehensible. The real incident happened long before the news about Palin’s daughter was publicized. In a million ways, the liberal illuminati is capitalizing off the media in ways that I never imagined.
David Thompson
Scope (Diary) Saturday, November 15th at 3:22PM EST (link)Is it true that Fred is considering a run for the RNC General Chair? Please tell me it’s true.
It isn't true
Dave_in_Fla (Diary) Saturday, November 15th at 4:23PM EST (link)Fred told me face to face that he has no interest in it. He then publicly stated that he has no interest as well.
“If they were merely incompetent, then at least SOME of their actions would have been to the benefit of the country.” – Joe McCarthy
Hey DaveinFla does Jeri have any political....
JadedByPolitics (Diary) Saturday, November 15th at 5:12PM EST (link)ambitions? That lady is one smart chick and I can chick because I am one
When I heard her on the million Sarah call she knew what she was talking about and had many conservative idea’s…..if you see her again let here know there is one woman out here that see’s her as a potential conservative leader!
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This is really precious
ss396 Saturday, November 15th at 5:59PM EST (link)Oh man oh man oh man! End of the World Wars? Is the hyperbole getting just a bit overblown? I have just got to meet one of these ‘experts’ some day…
This has all become such an “Alice in Wonderland”, where you have to run faster and faster just to stay in place. In the article they expect this to continue at least to inauguration. Personally, I don’t think that there is enough energy in the system to sustain this worshipful exaultation that long. As I recall, the youth were supposed to overwhelm the voting system in armies of exuberant new voters, too. That turned into a yawner.
We should encourage this hysteria in every manner that we can, so that it will burn itself out that much more quickly, for a speedier return to rationality.
If you pay someone to sit on his butt, you can’t be surprised when he does.
The Law & Order Episode Was Classless
Sarracuda Saturday, November 15th at 6:15PM EST (link)I am a big fan of the show been watching it for years, but after seeing that episode and then bringing up Sarah Palin by saying “Well the VP’s kid is gonna have a baby so why shouldn’t I” Was deplorable. The media is scared to death of Sarah, they mock her family, her hair, her clothes, her glasses, her voice, everything, and I wonder to myself “Why” why do they hate this woman so much and I think the answer is simple, she is a conservative, she is pro life, she is pro gun, but what really ticks off these liberals is that she is HAPPY, do you all notice that when they interview her, she is happy, not sad that they lost, she is a happy woman, she is a great life, great kids, great family, a great job, a gorgeous house in a beautiful state, she has everything that these liberals wish they had, and they are absolutely JEALOUS of her, yep, its that green monster that keeps on coming up, straight up jealousy, but the media hates her because she is still, to this day, a HUGE and I mean HUGE threat to Barack Obama, an even bigger threat then Hillary Clinton ever was. The media saw Hillary as a threat in the beginning, they got rid of her but they can’t get rid of Sarah, they call her “stupid” “religious nut case” but she won’t go away, they know, that she will run in 2012 if she sees that she has a chance to win. The media knows that no matter how great they will portray Obama in his presidency, because believe me, whenever Obama does anything, and it could be totally wrong, they will say he is “brilliant” and a “genius” but soon enough people will see that they were conned by this guy, and yes I mean his own supporters will begin to see the light and that is what the media is afraid of. They love Obama because Obama IS Jimmy Carter, heck even worse, and they LOVED Carter, so they know that Sarah is just like Reagan, never backs down, speaks her mind, gets rid of corruption in her OWN party, they are TERRIFIED of her. Even if Sarah wins in 2012 along with Bobby Jindal, another guy the media hates, they will have so much to do to fix things because under Obama, we won’t even recognize America anymore once he is done with us. It’s a scary time, the media died this year, they want the Fairness Doctrine which they will get, we are SO gonna be screwed
paragraphs. For Pete's sake, use
streiff (Diary) Saturday, November 15th at 6:19PM EST (link)paragraph breaks.
“What keeps me here is the reek of beer, the ladies and the craic”
Sales numbers
JakePrime (Diary) Saturday, November 15th at 6:39PM EST (link)He’s not talking about significance, just sales numbers. Newspaper sales have spiked during the election, relative to their declining trend. I wouldn’t be surprised if that were true, this has been a hugely followed election after all.
Jeri was very good..
charliej (Diary) Saturday, November 15th at 7:18PM EST (link)I watched several of Jeri’s interviews and she was sharp.. Possibly yet another fresh perspective.
They Media had better get started
wolfgang Saturday, November 15th at 7:48PM EST (link)…..figuring out how they will spin it to their best advantage when Obambi and Company, the chief apostate, walk in for a friendly chat with Ahmadinejad et al and Khameini and Co and the Persians end up cutting the Obambi’s private parts off, handing them back to him and then stapling them to his lips. All figuratively of course.
The event will make Neville Chamberlain look more like his successor, Winston Churchill, than ever before. “We will fight on the beaches….”
They danced in the streets of London and Paris the night Chamberlain uttered his inane “peace in our time” statement upon his return from Munich. Winston Churchill was a pariah, hiding in the darkness of the political alleyways. Two years later the British people were begging him to save them.
Boycott the Media???
RightWingIt Saturday, November 15th at 9:40PM EST (link)Sarracuda:
No matter who is on the GOP ticket in 2012, the media will hate. I don’t care if your the smartest person in the world and if you can walk on water…if your a Republican, they will find a way to demonize you.
What we should do on our part is concentrate on one media outlet. Let’s say CNN. Call in, write, or e-mail them (or do all three), and tell them that you are no longer viewing their programming. Even if you don’t watch them, call them up anyway and tell them why you don’t watch them.
Also, don’t visit their website. Everyday you read news from (let’s say CNN again) them, you count as a “unique visitor”. If 100k people across the country called in and stopped getting news from their site, don’t you think their advertisers would listen?
For too long, us conservatives have done nothing but complain about the media…shouldn’t we start doing something and perhaps start a boycott of some sorts? It’s better than doing nothing.
RightWingIt.com
Bobby Jindal 2012
jpav0923 Saturday, November 15th at 11:30PM EST (link)To all of you who may be Bobby Jindal supporters:
We have created a Facebook group designed to encourage and support Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal to run for President.
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We are now approaching 2,000 members. We are attempting to form as large a membership as possible in order to form the basis of a grassroots organization in support of Gov. Jindal. As our membership increases we will be suggesting concrete measures which you can personally do to help Jindal get the GOP nomination.
Obama won in Iowa because he out-organized everyone else. If we work together we can do the same in the summer of 2011. There is strength in numbers – please consider joining.
Can't really say
Dave_in_Fla (Diary) Sunday, November 16th at 12:56AM EST (link)I agree, she has the makings of a good one, but Sarah is what really gets her fired up right now.
“If they were merely incompetent, then at least SOME of their actions would have been to the benefit of the country.” – Joe McCarthy
The media is creating many problems
Scope (Diary) Sunday, November 16th at 1:23PM EST (link)I read an AP headline this morning that there is a big increase in hate crimes since Obama won the presidency, and they are happening everywhere from CA to Maine.
There were 50 some million voters that said no to Obama. The admitted tremendous bias for Obama throughout the campaigns have incited alot of raw emotion as so many in the media have made him appear as though he is some kind of God. They have gushed and swooned over him. Now there are going to be commemorative issues everywhere devoted to his coronation. And, now we are seeing advertising for Obama collector coins. The amount of attention he is getting is unprecedented.
I’m sure there are still many who are racist and bigots and etc., but, I think there are just as many that are more than angry at where he has promised to take the country. His own arrogant attitude about his supernatural powers will be his undoing. What will the media say then- He wasn’t the person they knew?