Liberal slimes threaten unions

[Canceled2]

You tell me which are successful. The idea of slamming and slanting everything gets a bit old, when unprovoked.

The Wall Street Journal is considered a conservative paper (they don't editorialize headlines) and doing well. I am not trying to "slam" but when you have biased news, it is no longer news and no one wants to buy it imo. When you see the pattern of a biased press dropping off in distribution across the country it is fair to ask why, even if that why includes its propensity to filter news through a political agenda.


Of interest

 

[Annie]

The Wall Street Journal is considered a conservative paper (they don't editorialize headlines) and doing well. I am not trying to "slam" but when you have biased news, it is no longer news and no one wants to buy it imo. When you see the pattern of a biased press dropping off in distribution across the country it is fair to ask why, even if that why includes its propensity to filter news through a political agenda.


Of interest

WSJ is a decent paper. While it's editorials are more to the right, their news coverage isn't. In any case, a national paper more comparative with USA Today, with a near built in advertising demand. Much like Barron's in Chicago. Not really comparable to a local or regional major paper.

 

[Canceled2]

WSJ is a decent paper. While it's editorials are more to the right, their news coverage isn't. In any case, a national paper more comparative with USA Today, with a near built in advertising demand. Much like Barron's in Chicago. Not really comparable to a local or regional major paper.

WSJ has a conservative editorial staff and typically less conservative newsroom, but having heard for years that liberals consider it "conservative" as does the link I provided, it seemed a fair paper to use as an example. Nonetheless, it is comparable to the NYT imo due to its national readership. Did you check out the link?

 

[blackascoal]

Ridiculing the president or his supporters is just wrong, IMO, politically and socially. Politically because juvenile, partisan attacks just causes the other side to entrench and feel justified to protect 'their guy', without thought. Now the ideas, that's fair game, but not without explanations and when possible a better idea perhaps. Socially the left/right, rich/poor arguments are just alienating us from each other and solutions to shared problems and perhaps solutions.

I don't thing the media will dissolve, anymore than music died with the end of vinyl.

Politics is not a friendly game of cards, much is at stake. It is a battle of ideas and direction that sometimes have devastating consequences. It is not meant for the faint of heart.

As a socialist, I believe in participatory politics and the only "my guy" I have is the best interests for the whole of the country. That's where partisans fail, both democrat and republican.

There are serious and deep differences between the left and the right in this country and there may never be a time when we can all hold hands and solve problems. It has never been that way in this country. All great political achievement has been gained through struggle, sometimes even death.

Frankly, from my perspective, with the precarious position America is in today, now is not the time to be looking to hold and compromise with disaster. We should be analyzing what works and what doesn't for all Americans. Analyzing not just politicians, but even what doesn't work within our form of government and society. We should ridicule and reject proven failed notions such as the "free market", which doesn't exist anywhere in nature, but the quest for it has lead us near economic collapse.

That is also true of the policies of Obama. I'll support what works, but I'll ridicule and reject what does not, such as his proposed healthcare tweaking at a time when we need serious healthcare reform.

As you say, the media will never go away, but its face is radically different today, and the REAL media of the left has emerged.

These are serious times. Sometimes we can't afford to be nice.

 

[Annie]

Politics is not a friendly game of cards, much is at stake. It is a battle of ideas and direction that sometimes have devastating consequences. It is not meant for the faint of heart.

As a socialist, I believe in participatory politics and the only "my guy" I have is the best interests for the whole of the country. That's where partisans fail, both democrat and republican.

There are serious and deep differences between the left and the right in this country and there may never be a time when we can all hold hands and solve problems. It has never been that way in this country. All great political achievement has been gained through struggle, sometimes even death.

Frankly, from my perspective, with the precarious position America is in today, now is not the time to be looking to hold and compromise with disaster. We should be analyzing what works and what doesn't for all Americans. Analyzing not just politicians, but even what doesn't work within our form of government and society. We should ridicule and reject proven failed notions such as the "free market", which doesn't exist anywhere in nature, but the quest for it has lead us near economic collapse.

That is also true of the policies of Obama. I'll support what works, but I'll ridicule and reject what does not, such as his proposed healthcare tweaking at a time when we need serious healthcare reform.

As you say, the media will never go away, but its face is radically different today, and the REAL media of the left has emerged.

These are serious times. Sometimes we can't afford to be nice.

I hear your position, I disagree with it. Civil War is always a costly proposition and doesn't usually produce the results any side thought they were going for.

Have a struck you as a Kumbaya type? LOL! I can be polite, without giving way. I also believe that if people would try to do so more, they might learn a thing of two. About their own ideas and others. Can I put myself in the shoes of someone who has a different frame of experience than myself? Not without listening and even then only to a degree. But without that degree, we'll never understand what each other mean or want.

I asked you before, what would you like the US to look like, if you had your ideals met? You may have missed the question, don't have to get real detailed, broad strokes is all.

 

[Sammy Jankis]

Bac-- IF you believe in what's good for the entire nation, you should recognize the attack on the middle class globalization represents, but I never see you utter one word against it.

Annie -- You want bac to give his view, but you hardly proffer any arguments at all on anything, preferring a kind of obtuse snarkiness which you think means something, but doesn't.

 

[Annie]

Bac-- IF you believe in what's good for the entire nation, you should recognize the attack on the middle class globalization represents, but I never see you utter one word against it.

Annie -- You want bac to give his view, but you hardly proffer any arguments at all on anything, preferring a kind of obtuse snarkiness which you think means something, but doesn't.

BAC has a pretty good idea of where I stand on most issues. Unlike you he doesn't try to play games. I disagree with him passionately on probably 99 out of 100 issues, I disagree with you on probably 95 out of 100, but I don't like to discuss with you. However I can tell you I approve of something you posted, without interacting. That's what I'll do. BTW, thanks for the rep.

 

[Sammy Jankis]

BAC has a pretty good idea of where I stand on most issues. Unlike you he doesn't try to play games. I disagree with him passionately on probably 99 out of 100 issues, I disagree with you on probably 95 out of 100, but I don't like to discuss with you. However I can tell you I approve of something you posted, without interacting. That's what I'll do. BTW, thanks for the rep.

I doubt he is as educated on your beliefs as you think he is.

Basically you're a mind numbed republican who believes mindlessly that corporations are always pure. Period. and that globaliztion is always good, even when it serves to profitize slavery and enslave free men.

What games do I play?

I know you probably won't answer, because being a braindead coward is your style.