I didn't know they were skirting bankruptcy (maybe it's true) but it's no secret the entire newspaper industry is in serious trouble. It's a dying business. I don't think the core problems have anything to do with slanted viewpoints, as you conclude.
>Excuse me but.....bwaaa-ha-ha. The "facts" and the New York Times have been in an amicable separation for some time. That's why it's in serious decline and skirting bankruptcy. The NYT is little better than the DailyKos or MediaMatters insofar as objective facts at this point and they are suffering for it. I'll be gald to point to circulation numbers should you think I'm wrong.
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>>>>>>Some will reflexively say this is just a partisan post. But I don't see how anyone can read this article with any degree of open mindedness and not be troubled about the prospect of this person becoming President of the U.S.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/14/us/politics/14palin.html?scp=13&sq=sarah%20palin&st=cse>>>>>
>>>>>Read your post again Mike. It's like the women who says 'Some of you will just disregard my statements because I am a woman.' You already put the premise out there that anyone who would want to discuss it is either partisan or is not open minded. It's a typical democratic ploy and I'm dissappointed in you. You're starting to copy the pundits...
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>>>>Before reading any other responses to this message... I haven't read Mike's message that way. To me it looks as he's predicting (or, to use a fashionable term, preëmpting) the usual backlash of "your sources are biased", "looking at the author's credentials..." etc etc, which is mostly very boring and actually leaving only the most persistent around the waterhole.
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>>>I'm with you. Sources' biases and authors' credentials are irrelevant. This is the Internet !
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>>If you are still talking about the story in the Times, it was a news story, not an opinion piece. It reported facts. (And if they weren't in fact facts, we will certainly hear about it -- loudly). It reported very specific things Sarah Palin has done in Alaska. To me I found them extremely disquieting in someone who might one day be President. Please note I don't say things like that about John McCain, even though I disagree with many (most?) of his positions. I don't think the Republic will be in the hands of a gross incompetent if he is elected. But Palin, she scares me more the more I learn about her.
