Newspaper losses pile up like old newspaper.

[Coda]

The liberal staff in newspaper business offices across the country are scratching their heads this morning - the latest news isn't what they wanted to read. Circulation is falling faster than a rock off a cliff, and the com-libs can't figure out why.

Editors are checking off their "list for success."

1. Do I always toe the liberal line......Yes.
2. Do I always paint the democrats as a positive force......Yes.
3. Do I always paint the republicans as being wrong......Yes.
4. Do I take every opportunity to twist the truth until it's nearly un-recognizable.....Yes.
5. Am I always willing to outright lie to help liberals gain power.....Yes.
6. Am I always willing to outright lie to hurt conservatives....Yes.
7. Do I always apply the "double standard" when it comes to liberal vs. conservative behavior.....Yes.

After answering the questionnaire they check to make sure the answers are right. Then they look at the distribution numbers and scratch their pointed little heads. If they're doing everything right - then why are the numbers falling?

Of course you and I know why their numbers are falling. They're falling because the newspapers are so out of touch with America that the two barely speak the same language anymore. The papers speak "lib," and America speaks "the center/traditional right." Here's a tip Mr. & Mrs. Editor - if your readers don't read the same language you print, it's likely they won't buy what you're selling. I know it's a difficult concept for a liberal to comprehend, but trust me on this one, you guys are wrong - and the country is "right."

http://www.editorandpublisher.com/ea..._id=1003316421

The New York Post is up 5%. The daily WSJ isn't down by much. Wonder if they will face reality or blame it on the internet and stupidity of the American public.

The Los Angeles Times reported that daily circulation fell 8% to 775,766. Sunday dropped 6% to 1,172,005.

The San Francisco Chronicle was down. Daily dropped 5.3% to 373,805 and Sunday fell 7.3% to 432,957.

The New York Times lost 3.5% daily to 1,086,798 and 3.5% on Sunday to 1,623,697. Its sister publication, The Boston Globe, reported decreases in daily circulation, down 6.7% to 386,415 and Sunday, down 9.9% to 587,292.

The Washington Post lost daily circulation, which was down 3.3% to 656,297 while Sunday declined 3.6% to 930,619.

Circulation losses at The Wall Street Journal were average, with daily down 1.9% to 2,043,235. The paper's Weekend Edition, however, saw its circulation fall 6.7% to 1,945,830.

Daily circulation at USA Today slipped 1.3% to 2,269,509.

The Chicago Tribune showed slight declines. Daily dropped 1.7% to 576,132 and Sunday decreased 1.3% to 937,907.

Losses at the Miami Herald were steep. Daily circulation fell 8.8% to 265,583 and Sunday fell 9.1% to 361,846.

While daily circulation stabilized compared to past reporting periods at The Sun in Baltimore, down 4.4% to 236,172, Sunday took a massive hit. Circulation on that day dropped 9% to 380,701.

The Hartford (Conn.) Courant’s daily circ was down 3.9% to 179,066 while Sunday dropped slightly, 1.5% to 264,539.

At The Philadelphia Inquirer, daily fell 7.5% to 330,622 while Sunday declined 4.5% to 682,214. Daily circulation at its sister pub, The Philadelphia Daily News, dropped 7% to 112,540.

The Star Tribune in Minneapolis reported declines. Daily was down 4.1% to 358,887 while Sunday dropped 6.3% to 596,333.

At the Orlando Sentinel, daily circulation decreased 2.5% to 214,283. Sunday fell 4.2% to 317,226.

Daily circulation at The Arizona Republic declined 2.5% to 397,294 and 2.6% on Sunday to 503,943.

The Plain Dealer in Cleveland showed daily circulation almost flat -- a small victory -- with a decline of 0.6% to 336,939. Sunday was down 2.3% to 446,487.

The New York Post got a leg up in the city’s tab wars. Daily circulation at the paper overtook the Daily News in showing gains of just over 5% -- perhaps the only major metro in the country to report such growth -- to 704,011 copies. The Daily News also increased its daily circulation, up 1% to 693,382.

That said, Sunday is still a problem for the New York Post. Circulation grew a fraction of percentage up 0.4% to 427,624. At the Daily News, Sunday circ was almost flat, down 0.1% to 780,196.

The St. Louis Post-Dispatch made advances in daily circulation up 0.6% to 276,588. Sunday was down 2.4% to 418,262.

The Denver Post’s daily circulation dropped 3.1% to 255,935. The Rocky Mountain News showed similar declines with daily down 2.9% to 255,675. Combined Sunday circulation fell 4.2% to 694,053.

Newsday reported losses. Daily fell 4.9% to 410,579 while Sunday experienced similar declines, down 4.3% to 474,750.

Daily circ at the Santa Barbara (Calif.) News-Press slipped 4.6% to 39,323. Sunday lost 5.4% to 40,801.

[Brian Olewnick]

Originally Posted by Coda

Wonder if they will face reality or blame it on the internet and stupidity of the American public.

Maybe it's just the conservative readers who haven't quite figured out this whole internet thing yet or who regard it as Satan's tool.

[walto]

Coda, do you really believe that the cause of declining newspaper circulation is liberal bias?

[Chris D]

What a tool.

[Coda]

What I find hopeful in this news is that maybe - just maybe it says that the average American is getting wise to the bias in the MSM. If I hold on to one hope, that's it.

I honestly believe this is a clear signal that an opening exists for a national conservative paper. I'm not in that business, but I sure sense that there's a real hunger for at least one paper that isn't built on anti-Americanism.

Jack Welch is exploring the possibility of purchasing the Boston Globe. I'm sure the NYT's doesn't want to sell this to Jack but they may soon have no choice. I admit that I'm not very informed of his political leanings but I can safely say that he'll at least report the business news from a more objective viewpoint. I would buy a subscription if he were to take over and I bet a lot of other folks would too.

[Scott Dolan]

Originally Posted by walto

Coda, do you really believe that the cause of declining newspaper circulation is liberal bias?

Walto, are you ok?

[Scott Dolan]

Originally Posted by Coda

What I find hopeful in this news is that maybe - just maybe it says that the average American is getting wise to the bias in the MSM. If I hold on to one hope, that's it.

I honestly believe this is a clear signal that an opening exists for a national conservative paper. I'm not in that business, but I sure sense that there's a real hunger for at least one paper that isn't built on anti-Americanism.

Jack Welch is exploring the possibility of purchasing the Boston Globe. I'm sure the NYT's doesn't want to sell this to Jack but they may soon have no choice. I admit that I'm not very informed of his political leanings but I can safely say that he'll at least report the business news from a more objective viewpoint. I would buy a subscription if he were to take over and I bet a lot of other folks would too.

Yes, I'm sure Massachusettes is a closet red state.

Leaving the opinion page aside, find me some examples of liberal bias in the NYT. I'm interested in seeing what you come up with. I used to buy into all those lies as well. And then I started reading it. Their international coverage is second to none.

[Root Doctor]

Identity Theft Alert: Coda, I think Borat is posting under your name on Jazz Corner.

[Scott Dolan]

Do not listen to anything he says. He's not Kazakh, he's Uzbek imposter!!

[walto]

Holy shit, he's serious.

[Coda]

Scott, I'm real busy today but here's a recent one to get your juices flowing:

The lead story for the June 23 New York Times exposed a U.S. terrorist surveillance program involving international bank transfers ("Bank Data Sifted In Secret By U.S. to Block Terror"). On Sunday, the paper's "Public Editor," fancy Times talk for ombudsman, retracted his previous defense of his paper's publication of details of the SWIFT program. Barney Calame wrote: "My July 2 column strongly supported The Times's decision to publish its June 23 article on a once-secret banking-data surveillance program. After pondering for several months, I have decided I was off base. There were reasons to publish the controversial article, but they were slightly outweighed by two factors to which I gave too little emphasis. While it's a close call now, as it was then, I don't think the article should have been published."

A reprint of a Monday item, by Clay Waters, on the MRC's TimesWatch site:

The June 23 New York Times article began: "Under a secret Bush administration program initiated weeks after the Sept. 11 attacks, counterterrorism officials have gained access to financial records from a vast international database and examined banking transactions involving thousands of Americans and others in the United States, according to government and industry officials."

The surveillance of transactions by the Belgian global banking cooperative, known as SWIFT, is back in the news because the Times' Public Editor, Barney Calame, has changed his mind and now thinks the paper should not have run the story that exposed and possibly sabotaged the successful anti-terror program.

For such a reliable corporate yes-man, this required some guts. But there it is, albeit buried at the bottom of Calame's Sunday column and not referenced in the less-than-riveting headline: "Can 'Magazines' of the Times Subsidize News Coverage?"

The admission comes instead under an uninformative subhead, "Banking Data: A Mea Culpa," in which he retracts his previous defense of his paper's publication of details of the SWIFT program.

Back on July 2, Calame wrote: "My close look convinced me that Bill Keller, the executive editor, was correct in deciding that Times readers deserved to read about the banking-data surveillance program. And the growing indications that this and other financial monitoring operations were hardly a secret to the terrorist world minimizes the possibility that the article made America less safe."

Now, here's Calame on October 22: "My July 2 column strongly supported The Times's decision to publish its June 23 article on a once-secret banking-data surveillance program. After pondering for several months, I have decided I was off base. There were reasons to publish the controversial article, but they were slightly outweighed by two factors to which I gave too little emphasis. While it's a close call now, as it was then, I don't think the article should have been published."

Calame actually credits his critics for changing his mind on the "secrecy" point: "In addition, I became embarrassed by the how-secret-is-it issue, although that isn't a cause of my altered conclusion. My original support for the article rested heavily on the fact that so many people already knew about the program that serious terrorists also must have been aware of it. But critical, and clever, readers were quick to point to a contradiction: the Times article and headline had both emphasized that a 'secret' program was being exposed."

Indeed, after controversy exploded, several Times' editors and reporters (including Calame) disingenuously backtracked, claiming that the "secret" program wasn't really a secret at all, but old news terrorists already knew about -- which of course is why the paper called it "secret" in the headline and in the text.

Blogger Tom Maguire is ambivalent about Calame's turnabout:

"Well, I suppose we should acknowledge Mr. Calame's grace in admitting his error, and before the election to boot. And keep in mind, the decision to publish was not his to make. That said, this flip-flop will annoy folks on the other side of this debate without mollifying cranks such as me. I would guess that Mr. Calame's lonely job just got a little lonelier."

Other Times critics are puzzling over Calame's immature justification for his initial knee-jerk defense of the Times: "What kept me from seeing these matters more clearly earlier in what admittedly was a close call? I fear I allowed the vicious criticism of The Times by the Bush administration to trigger my instinctive affinity for the underdog and enduring faith in a free press -- two traits that I warned readers about in my first column."

Law professor-blogger Eugene Volokh wonders where precisely the "vicious" attack is: "Could readers please point me to the Administration statements that the editor seems to be referring to as 'vicious criticism[s]'? I would genuinely like to be informed about this, since it might provide a better referent for what 'vicious' means in political discourse (for instance, for deciding whether particular New York Times columns critical of the Administration are themselves 'vicious criticism[s]')."

Michelle Malkin has a round-up of "vicious" criticism of the Times from Bush and Vice President Cheney and comes away underwhelmed: michellemalkin.com

END of Reprint

For the article as posted on TimesWatch.org, with links: www.timeswatch.org

Once you have time to distill this tidbit let me know and I'll post another.....

[Jazzzoline]

Newspapers sales are on the down track here too.

[walto]

...and you figure it's tidbits like that that are causing the Times to lose circulation?

[Coda]

Not the admission Walt, the initial story. But the fact that the admission was buried in the bowels of the paper does support that the Times does not want this to be widely read.

[walto]

Right, I mean the initial story. You actually believe that it's stories like that which are causing circulation figures to go down at the Times? You actually believe this diagnosis is on point?:

Editors are checking off their "list for success."

1. Do I always toe the liberal line......Yes.
2. Do I always paint the democrats as a positive force......Yes.
3. Do I always paint the republicans as being wrong......Yes.
4. Do I take every opportunity to twist the truth until it's nearly un-recognizable.....Yes.
5. Am I always willing to outright lie to help liberals gain power.....Yes.
6. Am I always willing to outright lie to hurt conservatives....Yes.
7. Do I always apply the "double standard" when it comes to liberal vs. conservative behavior.....Yes.

After answering the questionnaire they check to make sure the answers are right. Then they look at the distribution numbers and scratch their pointed little heads. If they're doing everything right - then why are the numbers falling?

Of course you and I know why their numbers are falling. They're falling because the newspapers are so out of touch with America that the two barely speak the same language anymore. The papers speak "lib," and America speaks "the center/traditional right."

I'm trying to give you the benefit of the doubt here, Coda.

[Scott Dolan]

Oh my!

http://empirezone.blogs.nytimes.com/...ay-the-course/


Coda - 1

Mo - 1

Tie game!!

[Scott Dolan]

Originally Posted by walto

Holy shit, he's serious.

Oy........

Walto, I think it's high time you and I sat down and had that "talk".

[walto]

The birds and the bees again?

[Scott Dolan]

Or as I like to call it "the righties and you".

[walto]

From bottomline.com
Top 20 Papers By Circulation
Editor and Publisher

Published: November 07, 2005

NEW YORK The numbers are in, and they're not good. Eighteen out of the top 20 papers reported weekday circulation losses in the most recent FAS-FAX report, including sharp drops at the San Francisco Chronicle (-16.58%) and the Boston Globe (-8.25%).
Below are average weekday circulation (Table 1) and Sunday circulation (Table 2) figures of America's 20 biggest newspapers for the six-month period ended Sept. 30, as reported Monday by the Audit Bureau of Circulations.

Average Weekday Circulation
NewspaperSept. 2005 CircGain/LossChangeUSA Today2,296,335-13,518-0.59%The Wall Street Journal2,083,660-23,114-1.10%The New York Times1,126,1905,1330.46%Los Angeles Times843,432-33,184-3.79%Daily News, New York688,584-26,468-3.70%The Washington Post678,779-28,991-4.09%New York Post662,681-11,708-1.74%Chicago Tribune586,122-14,866-2.47%Houston Chronicle (M-S)521,419-33,367-6.01%Boston Globe414,225-37,246-8.25%Arizona Republic (M-S)411,043-2,225-0.54%San Francisco Chronicle (M-S)400,906-79,681-16.58%Star-Ledger (N.J.)400,092500.01%Star Tribune (Minn.) (M-S)374,528-961-0.26%Atlanta Journal-Constitution362,426-34,674-8.73%Philadelphia Inquirer357,679-11,635-3.15%Detroit Free-Press341,248-7,590-2.18%Cleveland Plain-Dealer339,055-15,845-4.46%Oregonian (Portland, Ore.)333,515-4,192-1.24%San Diego Union-Tribune314,279-20,908-6.24%
* Changes are calculated based on FAS-FAX circulation numbers for the same period in 2004. The Dallas Morning News, Chicago Sun-Times, Newsday, and the Spanish-language newspaper Hoy deferred filing for the period pending completion of their next six-month audit. The first three papers had previously been in the top 20.
Sunday Circulation
NewspaperSept. 2005 CircGain/LossChangeUSA Today N/AN/AN/AWall Street Journal N/AN/AN/ANew York Times1,682,6442,0610.12%Los Angeles Times1,247,588-44,686-3.46%Daily News (New York)781,375-5,577-0.71%Washington Post965,919-41,568-4.13%New York Post425,279-28,862-6.36%Chicago Tribune950,582-13,345-1.38%Houston Chronicle708,312-29,268-3.97%Boston Globe652,146-55,667-7.86%Arizona Republic517,699-13,052-2.46%San Francisco Chronicle467,216-73,104-13.53%Star-Ledger (N.J.)600,262-7,995-1.31%Star Tribune (Minn.)636,977-41,673-6.14%Atlanta Journal-Constitution570,126-29,829-4.97%Philadelphia Inquirer714,609-36,171-4.82%Detroit Free-PressN/AN/AN/ACleveland Plain-Dealer457,049-22,082-4.61%Oregonian (Portland, Ore.)394,992-10,303-2.54%San Diego Union-Tribune416,682-17,291-3.98%
* Changes are calculated based on FAS-FAX circulation numbers for the same period in 2004. The Dallas Morning News, Chicago Sun-Times, Newsday, and the Spanish-language newspaper Hoy deferred filing for the period pending completion of their next six-month audit. The first three papers had previously been in the top 20.

Newspaper Execs Say Circ Declines Reflect Shift to Web, Less Discounting
Al Diaz/Miami Herald StaffTom Fiedler

Published: November 07, 2005 1:00 PM ET

NEW YORK----Editors and publishers at some of the newspapers hardest hit by Monday's FAS-FAX reports say steps need to be taken to maintain current readers while attracting new ones. But to many, the circulation declines announced today by the Audit Bureau of Circulations came as no surprise, given the overall industry trend.

But most say the circulation measurements are incomplete because they still do not take into account growing Web site activity. Others also said they had lost circulation deliberately by ending or reducing discounted programs as their value becomes diminished in the ABC measurements.

Tom Fiedler, executive editor of The Miami Herald, said he does not expect circulation to increase during his lifetime, which means newspapers must focus on the Web as a genuine delivery system: "Circulation will continue to drop until there will be a plateauing, then I expect a rapid decline.

"Newspapers will become supplemental reading for a very elite audience," he added, and the online edition "will be where the popular press lives."

"We are well aware of it, that newspapers continue to struggle to reach their audience," said Anne Gordon, managing editor of The Philadelphia Inquirer, which suffered an 11,000-copy drop in daily circulation, and about 30,000 on Sunday. "It's not a surprise."

Still, Gordon was among several who pointed to increasing Web activity as a factor that the current FAS-FAX measurements do not address. "The Philadelphia Inquirer has more readers than it has ever had if you factor in the Web. We have well over one million readers."

At the Herald -- which has experienced a 4.3% drop in weekday print circulation since September 2004 -- Fiedler says he sees a similar corresponding shift online, where Herald.com has seen an "accelerated increase" of about 30% per year: "We are seeing that our readership is not declining if you include online -- it is actually growing."

Denise Palmer, publisher of The Sun in Baltimore, which lost some 22,000 from its daily circulation, said through a spokesman that the Sun Web site "leads the market and adds about 10% to our total audience."

Among the hardest hit papers was The San Francisco Chronicle, which saw a 16.5% drop in weekday circulation, lowering the paper's daily count to just above 400,000. Chronicle Publisher Frank Vega, who took over in January, pointed to the "70 million page views a month" the paper's Web site gets as a mitigating factor.

Vega is among several newspaper leaders who noted a deliberate reduction in discounted circulation as part of the reason for a decline, citing a need to rely less on those numbers for true recognition. The Boston Globe took similar steps, which Senior Vice President Al Larkin blamed for part of its 37,000 daily circulation drop.

"We made a conscious decision to take down our 'other paid' and about half of our decline is based on that," Larkin told E&P. "We want to make sure the quality circulation we have is maintained going forward." The Orlando Sentinel, hit with an 11% daily circulation drop, blamed part of it on a planned move away from discounted hotel distribution.

"The hotel-program reductions were intentional, so these results were expected," Deborah Irwin, vice president and director of circulation for Orlando Sentinel Communications, said in a statement. "We changed our circulation strategy in January 2005 -- significantly reducing our hotel program. Circulation results will continue to show year-over-year declines until we cycle through this change at the end of 2005."

But Larkin and others admitted that the overall circulation decline is a sign of lost and potential readers. "It is a trend that we are working hard to reverse," he said, without revealing any exact plans.

Many of the papers also cited specific causes in their markets or for their products that sparked declines. Fiedler said the increased use of "do not call" lists in his area had sparked a slowdown in subscription solicitations by phone. "That is a major tool" that his sales people have had taken away, he said.

At USA Today, which still has the highest circulation of any daily paper in the country at 2.2 million despite a slight 13,500 drop, spokesman Steve Anderson pointed to the single-copy sales price increase from 50 cents to 75 cents one year ago. Taking that factor into account, he believed the dip was almost unnoticeable. "Our issue has been the cover price and it has basically been flat," he said of circulation. "We have increased subscription sales."

At The Sun, Palmer also sought to spin the circulation decline by noting more recent increases in single-copy sales during the third quarter, which she says are up 6% daily and 7.5% on Sunday. In addition, she pointed to a Sunday circulation jump during the past four months that has yet to be reflected in the FAS -FAX report. "That is probably due to the redesign, which launched in September," she said. "I am encouraged by the recent circulation trends."

In Philadelphia, Gordon said the paper had made changes to its Saturday bulldog issue, with a redesign and earlier delivery time that she said had added 3,000 to 4,000 more single-copy sales of that edition. "There are a lot of plans in place to increase home delivery," she added. "We have more delivery sites and we are fairly optimistic about it."

When asked how the Inquirer's planned reduction of 75 newsroom jobs might make a circulation increase even harder, Gordon dismissed any connection. "There are fine newspapers in the country with 75 employees, period," she said. "It is a factor of a lot of things."

[Scott Dolan]

Published: November 07, 2005

NEW YORK The numbers are in, and they're not good. Eighteen out of the top 20 papers reported weekday circulation losses in the most recent FAS-FAX report, including sharp drops at the San Francisco Chronicle (-16.58%) and the Boston Globe (-8.25%).
Below are average weekday circulation (Table 1) and Sunday circulation (Table 2) figures of America's 20 biggest newspapers for the six-month period ended Sept. 30, as reported Monday by the Audit Bureau of Circulations.

Average Weekday Circulation
NewspaperSept. 2005 CircGain/LossChangeUSA Today2,296,335-13,518-0.59%The Wall Street Journal2,083,660-23,114-1.10%The New York Times1,126,1905,1330.46%Los Angeles Times843,432-33,184-3.79%Daily News, New York688,584-26,468-3.70%The Washington Post678,779-28,991-4.09%New York Post662,681-11,708-1.74%Chicago Tribune586,122-14,866-2.47%Houston Chronicle (M-S)521,419-33,367-6.01%Boston Globe414,225-37,246-8.25%Arizona Republic (M-S)411,043-2,225-0.54%San Francisco Chronicle (M-S)400,906-79,681-16.58%Star-Ledger (N.J.)400,092500.01%Star Tribune (Minn.) (M-S)374,528-961-0.26%Atlanta Journal-Constitution362,426-34,674-8.73%Philadelphia Inquirer357,679-11,635-3.15%Detroit Free-Press341,248-7,590-2.18%Cleveland Plain-Dealer339,055-15,845-4.46%Oregonian (Portland, Ore.)333,515-4,192-1.24%San Diego Union-Tribune314,279-20,908-6.24%
* Changes are calculated based on FAS-FAX circulation numbers for the same period in 2004. The Dallas Morning News, Chicago Sun-Times, Newsday, and the Spanish-language newspaper Hoy deferred filing for the period pending completion of their next six-month audit. The first three papers had previously been in the top 20.
Sunday Circulation
NewspaperSept. 2005 CircGain/LossChangeUSA Today N/AN/AN/AWall Street Journal N/AN/AN/ANew York Times1,682,6442,0610.12%Los Angeles Times1,247,588-44,686-3.46%Daily News (New York)781,375-5,577-0.71%Washington Post965,919-41,568-4.13%New York Post425,279-28,862-6.36%Chicago Tribune950,582-13,345-1.38%Houston Chronicle708,312-29,268-3.97%Boston Globe652,146-55,667-7.86%Arizona Republic517,699-13,052-2.46%San Francisco Chronicle467,216-73,104-13.53%Star-Ledger (N.J.)600,262-7,995-1.31%Star Tribune (Minn.)636,977-41,673-6.14%Atlanta Journal-Constitution570,126-29,829-4.97%Philadelphia Inquirer714,609-36,171-4.82%Detroit Free-PressN/AN/AN/ACleveland Plain-Dealer457,049-22,082-4.61%Oregonian (Portland, Ore.)394,992-10,303-2.54%San Diego Union-Tribune416,682-17,291-3.98%
* Changes are calculated based on FAS-FAX circulation numbers for the same period in 2004. The Dallas Morning News, Chicago Sun-Times, Newsday, and the Spanish-language newspaper Hoy deferred filing for the period pending completion of their next six-month audit. The first three papers had previously been in the top 20.

For christs sake, walto.

Newspaper Execs Say Circ Declines Reflect Shift to Web, Less Discounting

Duh!

Also saw a recent study that said more and more people jut don't have the time to read the paper daily anymore. I know we shitcanned our local rag for just that reason.

[Scott Dolan]

Is it just coincidence that this will end up being one of the busiest days in Coda's life?

[rollhead]

MYTH vs. REALITY: Dispelling the Shameless Pre-Election Lies of the Defamatory Liberal Spin Machine
PATRIOT ALERT:
In this important election season, Democrats and their media allies will stop at nothing to smear 100% virtuous conservatives as money-laundering crooks, power-deranged villains, and deviant hypocritical sex fiends.

To counter such instances of fact-based viciousness, the Coda and Gordon B. have prepared a useful fact sheet, which patriots are encouraged to consult prior to casting any vote that could transform the legislative branch from a Godly fraternity of macho Republican chickenhawks into a Democratic gaggle of tax-and-spend, man-on-man terrorist fellators.


DEFAMATORY LIBERAL “SPIN”: Representative Mark Foley routinely sent young House pages e-mail and text messages so lurid and deviant, they make the Starr Report look like an episode of Leave it to Beaver. As a vocal proponent of Bill Clinton’s impeachment, Foley is the consummate embodiment of Republican moral and sexual hypocrisy.
CONSERVATIVE REALITY: Democrat Mark Foley is the embodiment of the inherently pedophilic nature of homosexuality: the official sex orientation of liberals. A vote for Democrats is a vote for having swishy middle-aged men in purple silk ties cast your innocent blue-eyed offspring in man-on-toddler bukkake videos.

DEFAMATORY LIBERAL “SPIN”: Texas Representative Tom Delay resigned his House Leader post as a tacit admission of guilt following his indictment in a money laundering scheme so reprehensible and large in scope, it made Tony Montoya’s coke empire look like a Chic Filet franchise.
CONSERVATIVE REALITY: Delay has long been the target of hack prosecutor Ronnie Earl, a liberal so off the hinges partisan and deranged that he one time investigated himself for corruption. Delay, of course, simply wanted to spend more time with his family – his family of Cohiba puffing, back-slapping lobbyists.

DEFAMATORY LIBERAL “SPIN”: Super-lobbyist and Bush/Cheney Pioneer Jack Abramoff defrauded Indian (feather, not dot) tribes and bribed countless public officials, while enjoying regular VIP access to the White House. Circumstantial evidence also strongly suggests his involvement in the Cosa Nostra-style murder of SunCruz Casinos owner Konstantinos Boulis, a competitor of Abramoff’s clients.
CONSERVATIVE REALITY: Jack Abramoff is the victim of an anti-Semitic smear campaign spearheaded by the Jew-controlled media who, in a rancorous fit of self-hatred common to the Jewistic religion, is punishing one of its own for violating the sacred Protocols of the Elders of Zion, by partaking in goyish sports like golf with his white Christians friends. Abromoff also felt like he needed to spend more time with his family.

DEFAMATORY LIBERAL “SPIN”: Connecticut Governor John Rowland pleaded guilty to accepting $15,000 in bribes and repairs to his Bantem lake house in exchange for granting no-bid contracts to the state’s largest construction firm. Rowland also misappropriated over $40,000 from state coffers to pay his wife to write a children’s book about a mansion-dwelling Republican mouse, and stands accused of a laundry list of corruption charges longer than one of Rush Limbaugh’s Walgreens receipts.
CONSERVATIVE REALITY: Purely out of a selfless loyalty to their state’s heritage, certain construction contractors restored and beautified the Governor’s slightly decaying vacation home – a structure automatically rendered super-historically-significant by pure virtue of the identity of its owner, and its likely future conversion into a Presidential museum. By the same token, other wholly justified pro-bono efforts were made to preserve Rowland’s dry cleaning, cuticles, and the transmission of his 2003 Cadillac Escalade. As regards the resignation, Rowland desired to spend more time with his family.

DEFAMATORY LIBERAL “SPIN”: Former Representative Randy “Duke” Cunningham, the most bribed politician in history, handed out millions of dollars in military contracts while he served on the Arms Services Committee – stuffing his jowly gullet with almost 3 million dollars in the blood money of slaughtered American soldiers.
CONSERVATIVE REALITY: Cunningham’s trademark process for evaluating the appropriate dispensation of government contracts served as a fine demonstration of unshackled vigor of the invisible hand of the free market. Unfortunately, Duke’s hand was rendered visible due to having been splattered with the scarlet-red metaphorical blood of dead American GIs. Also, he wanted to spend more time with his family.

DEFAMATORY LIBERAL “SPIN”: I. Lewis “Scooter Libby”, Chief of Staff to Vice President Dick Cheney, was indicted on charges of obstruction of justice in the Valerie Plame Affair, and resigned his post in disgrace.
CONSERVATIVE REALITY: Mr. Libby wanted to spend more time with his family. And going to church. And NASCAR races. And Toby Keith concerts… with his family.

-- plagiarized from whitehouse.org

[Scott Dolan]

Hahahaha..................

Goddamn homosexual pedophiliac socialists!!!

[larrycohen]

Wonder if they will face reality or blame it on the internet and stupidity of the American public.

Why not blame it on the internet? I get my news from the internet and magazines - not from newspapers. My daughter doesn't read the news much, but when she got interested for a while, she didn't buy a newspaper, she started reading the CNN web site.

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By the way - I'm not sure if the Ny Post qualifies as a newspaper, and not just because of its lack of quality. Whenever I've seen a friend reading the NY Post, I've been shocked, and I've asked, "You read that!?". The answer has always been, "I just read it for the sports". I don't think anyone has read the front half of the NY Post in many years.

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I always wondered about the "bias" of the media. Depending on who's complaining,
either:
There are plenty of conservatives with money, even some who can write - is there some reason they don't start their own papers?
or:
There are plenty of liberals who can write, even some with money - is there some reason they don't start their own papers?

So how can there be a bias?

[Jon Abbey]

Originally Posted by Coda

The New York Post is up 5%.

they dropped their price to 25 cents (75 cents on Sunday) a couple of years ago, but no one seems to mention that in these stories. I never buy the Daily News, but I'm pretty sure it's still 50 cents, the Times is a dollar, and USA Today went up to 75 cents a couple of years back. gee, I wonder if that's a factor at all?

[Jon Abbey]

Originally Posted by larrycohen

By the way - I'm not sure if the Ny Post qualifies as a newspaper, and not just because of its lack of quality. Whenever I've seen a friend reading the NY Post, I've been shocked, and I've asked, "You read that!?". The answer has always been, "I just read it for the sports". I don't think anyone has read the front half of the NY Post in many years.

I buy the Times, the Post and USA Today every day, and get just as much out of the Post as I do the other two, if not more. I read as much in the front of the Post as I do in the front sections of either of the other papers, it's the editorial page that's noxious, although I skip that entirely in all three papers. and I'm as liberal as probably almost anyone on here, but so what? I don't think their right-wing bias creeps in too much outside of the editorials, and if it does, it's really not too hard to mentally factor out. and it's WAY more entertaining than the Times, obviously.

[bostontricky]

Likewise, there are certain days that the Herald is essential reading for Bostonians. Mostly local politics. Gubernatorial debate? State senator indicted? Nothing finer.

Coda - aren't the Herald's numbers way down, too? Where the hell is everyone getting their news from in this town?

[Scott Dolan]

I'm witholding any further comment until Coda returns with more evidence of liberal bias in the NYT.

[Sandi22]

Give me the web any day and a few magazines over most papers. This way I don't have to listen to anyone gripe if I put pages out of sequence or God forbid read it before anyone else had a chance to.

Remember highschool current events? We had to cut out articles and do a presentation in class on certain days, and could that ever be a problem. There goes your parents page they were wanting to read.

These days with the web, if you can keep your printer full of ink and up and running, the problems I had with newspapers just don't exist. I do miss some things about them, but for the most part, I can do without them, and I can find most articles and cartoons on the web. They sure work best for washing windows though.