Who is fooled by the media anymore?

[nitro]

I find it hilarious when an organization, whose job in my mind is to report facts and let people take it in for discussion, endorses one point of view or another.

Do people really fall for this stuff? Do people ask themselves who is behind these "endorsements" ? No wonder newspaper companies are going to zero.

Clinton is endorsed by major Illinois and Ohio newspapers.

 

[Frederick Foresight]

No wonder newspaper companies are going to zero.

Rightly or wrongly (probably wrongly), this is a practice that has been going on for well over 100 years. I doubt it has any bearing on the crisis that newspapers are presently facing.

 

[Tsing Tao]

I find it hilarious when an organization, whose job in my mind is to report facts and let people take it in for discussion, endorses one point of view or another.

Do people really fall for this stuff? Do people ask themselves who is behind these "endorsements" ? No wonder newspaper companies are going to zero.

Clinton is endorsed by major Illinois and Ohio newspapers.

What I find hilarious is that you're just noticing this, when those of us who are conservatives have been pointing it out for years now. It's only when the very same MSM establishment doesn't show fairness to your Bernie (and they aren't, I agree) that you claim umbrage.

 

[Frederick Foresight]

What I find hilarious is that you're just noticing this, when those of us who are conservatives have been pointing it out for years now. It's only when the very same MSM establishment doesn't show fairness to your Bernie (and they aren't, I agree) that you claim umbrage.

I guess you guys didn't much like the balancing out.

Below are the Republican and Democrat’s endorsements as a percentage of the total endorsements given out that cycle.

Were you guys complaining when the numbers were notably skewed in your favor? Not so much.

http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytime...l-newspaper-endorsements-history-and-outcome/

 

[Tsing Tao]

I guess you guys didn't much like the balancing out.

Below are the Republican and Democrat’s endorsements as a percentage of the total endorsements given out that cycle.

Were you guys complaining when the numbers were notably skewed in your favor? Not so much.

http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytime...l-newspaper-endorsements-history-and-outcome/

I know you're just itching to come up with anything that shows hypocrisy on the right (while ignoring all of it on the left) but I was speaking in much more broad terms of MSM favoritism over the years than just some endorsement crap by regional newspapers.

 

[Frederick Foresight]

I know you're just itching to come up with anything that shows hypocrisy on the right

An itch easily scratched, by the way.

 

[Tsing Tao]

An itch easily scratched, by the way.

And that's pretty much all you're good for all day - every day, apparently. Scratching your itches.

 

[nitro]

What I find hilarious is that you're just noticing this, when those of us who are conservatives have been pointing it out for years now. It's only when the very same MSM establishment doesn't show fairness to your Bernie (and they aren't, I agree) that you claim umbrage.

Yep. I am not perfect. But I am highly adaptable and when I see (or recognize) a defect in myself, I am quick to come to terms with it and quickly come to a new consciousness.

 

[Tsing Tao]

Yep. I am not perfect. But I am highly adaptable and when I see (or recognize) a defect in myself, I am quick to come to terms with it and quickly come to a new consciousness.

Well said, sir. No one can fault you for coming to terms with truth when you notice it, as we all try to do. Well, most of us.

 

[nitro]

Rightly or wrongly (probably wrongly), this is a practice that has been going on for well over 100 years. I doubt it has any bearing on the crisis that newspapers are presently facing.

So, you don't think the internet is replacing newspapers, and people are taking back their opinions back from people telling them what to think, has anything to do with newspapers going to zero?

I realize that this is a connect the dots theory, but I think it is very plausible.