One Guy's Opinion on the Political Scene By: Jim Herndon
Chickens Coming Home to Roost
The New York Times Company, parent of The New York Times, posted a $335,000 loss in the first quarter which is the worst period the company and the newspaper industry have seen The Times Company’s core news media group, which includes The Times, The Boston Globe and The International Herald Tribune, formed.
The company is struggling to understand the reason for this unfortunate situation. Let’s hazard a guess. How about a loss in credibility of these once great providers of daily news that they have brought down upon themselves by becoming little more than leftist propaganda outlets looking more and more like second rate tabloids? The owners and editors are admitted Liberals and, as such is the case with all Liberals, are duty-bound to promote liberal causes. The Times has fought President Bush from day one; the paper has had to fire journalists for fabricating stories detrimental to President Bush and to the War on Terror. The Times catered to the extremist organization Move_On.Org, giving them a $75,000 discount for the full-page ad that called General Petraeus, General Betray Us. Clearly, the Internet has had an affect upon newspaper sales, but the fact remains that the average person still likes to have a paper in his hands to read with his morning coffee. The problem for the liberal press is that when readers start to wonder if their daily newspaper is giving them articles that are tainted with the writer’s personal views, they will turn to other news sources.