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 Olbermann Slams New York TimesPosted on Jan 3, 2008
The New York Times made it onto Keith Olbermann’s “worst person” list with the news that the paper had hired William Kristol: “You guys at the Times can hire any conservative columnist you want, but why did you pick the really dumb one?”
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By LVogt, January 7 at 5:50 pm # It's not that Kristol isIt’s not that Kristol is conservative or even biased.
By Conservative Yankee, January 8 at 6:47 am # I haven't a clue as to what your "reply" addressed.I didn’t suggest you insulted anyone, and as to Franklin and Paine, anyone can communicate with them.. they “wrote” that’s when people make little marks on paper which others can decode. These papers are bound together and called “books” Franklin and Paine wrote many of these. As to the NYT selling in one to two years? Maybe, BUT they have recently been “buying” and (IMHO) diminishing their so called “independent status. They now Own the Boston Globe, The Worcester Telegram, and The Press Democrat along with several papers scattered throughout the south. Currently, their stock is holding well when compared to competitors!
By Conservative Yankee, January 7 at 5:10 am # By Gabir, January 6 atBy Gabir, January 6 at 9:51 pm “As recently as twenty years ago , the American Press had the upper hand in the equation between a company buying advertising time or space and the media entity selling the time or space . The relationship between advertisers and media had more to do with seling a product or service and less to do with the corporations via advertising controlling the content of what was broadcasted or printed betwen the ads .” What you say MAY be true, as far as it goes, BUT Both Ben Franklin, and Thomas Paine warned readers “Subscribers must pay the full cost of a newspaper, or they will get only news of which other sponsors approve.” The NYT was the most conservative “full fold” New York City paper in my youth. The World, The Telegram &Sun;, and even the Journal American had a far more liberal slant. That the Times survived says a bunch about the US newspaper readers.
By Conservative Yankee, January 5 at 11:23 am # What's new? William Buckley,What’s new? William Buckley, to Bill Safire, to Billy Kristol. They just get dumber and dumber. I remember when I was in High school, the Gray-lady decided that writing at an 8th grade level was losing the paper business, so they dumbed the content to sixth grade abilities. So now, a second grader has no trouble understanding As Dolly Parton sung: “...He preached so plain a cow could understand....”
By jhquinn@att.net, January 4 at 2:54 pm # Why are the most ofWhy are the most of you folks on this site so negitive?,and no I,m not a Jew. I remember most of you were spouting the NYT’s loke it was the Bible
By Lenin Not Lennon, January 4 at 12:24 pm # NYT is bad becauseNYT is owned by Jews. Kristol is a Jew. PNAC was written and promoted by Jews. Israel is a Zionist Jew entity, promoted by all of the above. Draw your own conclusions.......
By msgmi, January 4 at 7:57 am # Billy 'neoCON' Kristol is aBilly ‘neoCON’ Kristol is a genetic clone of Heinrich Himmler, the ‘lebensraum’ version of command and control. NY Times should consider the dynamic duo, a mutation of ‘shock & awe’ Don ex-SecDef, and Billy K, to contribute their thoughts on the PNAC plan for the New World Order in the 21st century.
By Trevor, January 4 at 7:24 am # And THIS is supposed to be the ultimate of liberal mediaEverytime I listen to right-wing radio, say Hugh Hewitt or S. Hanity-they use the NYT as a virtual swear word, considering not simply leftist but almost Communist or al-Queda. And yet that paper seems to almost court the right, seeming almost apologetic that it occasionally criticises a conservative President or politician. Olberman is right on, I welcome conservative voices, even when I don’t agree with their beliefs they need to be heard and at the very least it helps sharpen our arguments against them. But, to be less polite than Kieth, surely they could find someone with his head less far up his own ass. I mean, this guy should barely be allowed to blog, forget about being honored as a sage.
By moe, January 4 at 7:04 am # On KristolThey are just pandering to “Idiot America” which makes up about 49% of the public. They are just managing by the numbers.
By weather, January 4 at 4:27 am # Olbermann, if you were reallyOlbermann, if you were really authentic, you’d confront the NYTimes on how they turned their back on 9/11 and the horrible crime that was engineered right in their zip code. The NYTimes isn’t a newspaper at all, its a PR firm and PNAC is just one of their dark clients.
By Louise, January 6 at 6:36 pm # Kristol BallsKrystol Balls Thomas that’s funny! Been taking the Times for many years. Well not quite right, until a couple of years ago. Know what? NYT didn’t change, I did! They’re pretty much the same as they’ve been for as long as I can remember. Heavily relied on and enormously respected. But along came the Internet, Independent Media, and a new education! When I first started using the Internet to email and hunt and pick, there wasn’t a whole lot on it. Now of course, there really is no need to buy the Times. Nothing there I cant find on the web and a heck of a lot on the web I’ll never find in the Times! Besides, I still get it on line if I want to read anything. There are still people who are afraid to go on-line. Afraid to look for an alternate source of news. Afraid they or their kids, or their money will be attacked by the cyberspace predators. Most of all they are afraid to admit they don’t know everything and ask someone to show them how to do it! (Of course their kids go on-line all the time. At school, at the Library, at a friends house, which is why we will see major change!) People that afraid tend to be conservative. Maybe that’s why the Times has Krystol. Maybe they desperately need to attract conservative consumers. Not because they want to “overcome” that bad rap about being “too liberal”, but because they have to guarantee readership to their advertisers. Will Krystol have a negative influence on the reader? Do conservatives wake up every morning looking for a negative to fear and gossip about? Will the Sun come up tomorrow? Hope so.
By feedback, January 3 at 9:48 pm # broken videovideo says “we’re sorry, this video is no longer available”
By weather, January 3 at 5:03 pm # The New York Times diedThe New York Times died on 9/11, any integrity they had got crushed in their own rubble. They don’t report, they choreograph, just ask Judy Miller and all those who signed off on the fraud. Add Your Comment |
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