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Good Bye Newspapers… |
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Guest Blog
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Written by Mark Schwartz
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Sunday, 29 March 2009 |
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Am I so cynical that I think newspapers are receiving their just deserts? You bet.
Our local newspaper runs a weekly editorial about its fundamental value to our democracy and that we should fight to keep it around. Oh really? So, during the last election cycle where did they spend their investigative dollars, on the top of the Democratic ticket or the bottom of the Republican ticket? When the hard questions need to be asked of things like the value of Cap & Trade, Health Care Reform, and Economic Stimulus packages do they ask them? Name me a newspaper that has reported the estimated effectiveness in degrees Fahrenheit or Celsius for the President’s cap & trade energy tax. Which local newspaper has detailed the downside of socialized medicine? How many newspapers actually read the recent stimulus packages and defined all of the pork contained therein? If a paper is going to be valuable to our democracy they can’t just report from the left. They have to go after guys on their own side. Guys like Obama who through their association with vote fraud organizations like ACORN are actually attacking our democracy. Or guys like Barney Frank who, seek to de-legitimize the constitution, by retroactively taxing AIG bonuses.
Our newspapers don’t go after these guys because they have become lapdogs of the left, and that hurts them. Sure they’ve lost classified ad revenue to Craig's list, but just as importantly is the loss of readership. Year after year subscriptions are down. It shouldn’t be surprising when you piss off 40% of your market, they’ll go somewhere else. So good bye local newspaper. I’m not going to miss you. Perhaps you’ll be replaced by journalists who actually will perform a civic duty. I can hardly wait.
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