Comments on: It’s not the liberal bias, stupid! http://steveouting.com/2008/12/05/its-not-the-liberal-bias-stupid/ Journalist, consultant, entrepreneur ... Musings on digital media, Web 2.0/3.0, & news in the Internet era Sat, 11 Feb 2012 08:43:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: R Smith http://steveouting.com/2008/12/05/its-not-the-liberal-bias-stupid/comment-page-1/#comment-18317 R Smith Fri, 27 Feb 2009 02:04:38 +0000 http://steveouting.com/?p=614#comment-18317 Liberal bias in and of itself, no. Liberal bias in a liberal biased world, yes. The echo chamber that exists today makes reading most newspapers an act of redunancy. Your comparison with Fox News makes my point. Where else to get a conservative opinion? Every business in this country is under financial pressure. Why should newspapers be exempt? The argument of public necessity is bogus. You want to know about something go to the internet. If newspapers were doing the job they have always done, namely investigating and reporting, they would still be viable. But you can't ignore the majority of the news out there to survive in this world, Liberal bias in and of itself, no. Liberal bias in a liberal biased world, yes. The echo chamber that exists today makes reading most newspapers an act of redunancy. Your comparison with Fox News makes my point. Where else to get a conservative opinion? Every business in this country is under financial pressure. Why should newspapers be exempt? The argument of public necessity is bogus. You want to know about something go to the internet. If newspapers were doing the job they have always done, namely investigating and reporting, they would still be viable. But you can’t ignore the majority of the news out there to survive in this world,

]]> By: Carl Natale http://steveouting.com/2008/12/05/its-not-the-liberal-bias-stupid/comment-page-1/#comment-13816 Carl Natale Tue, 09 Dec 2008 18:49:42 +0000 http://steveouting.com/?p=614#comment-13816 I would say liberal bias is part of the problem. The paper's conservative bias didn't help either. Neither did its pro business coverage. And the anti business coverage. Which is similar to how it favored advertisers and refused to help them with friendly coverage. Then they sealed their fate by not covering enough local events and ignoring geopolitical trivia. There seems to be enough in the paper for everyone to hate. Trouble is that there are alternatives that cater to their biases. I would say liberal bias is part of the problem. The paper’s conservative bias didn’t help either. Neither did its pro business coverage. And the anti business coverage. Which is similar to how it favored advertisers and refused to help them with friendly coverage. Then they sealed their fate by not covering enough local events and ignoring geopolitical trivia.

There seems to be enough in the paper for everyone to hate. Trouble is that there are alternatives that cater to their biases.

]]> By: Derek Scruggs http://steveouting.com/2008/12/05/its-not-the-liberal-bias-stupid/comment-page-1/#comment-13662 Derek Scruggs Sat, 06 Dec 2008 15:24:05 +0000 http://steveouting.com/?p=614#comment-13662 Yeah, this is so silly. To cite just a simple counterargument: if it had a liberal bias, it's readership demographic would skew young. Why don't newspapers dominate college campuses? Yeah, this is so silly. To cite just a simple counterargument: if it had a liberal bias, it’s readership demographic would skew young. Why don’t newspapers dominate college campuses?

]]> By: sandra fish http://steveouting.com/2008/12/05/its-not-the-liberal-bias-stupid/comment-page-1/#comment-13635 sandra fish Sat, 06 Dec 2008 03:35:49 +0000 http://steveouting.com/?p=614#comment-13635 i <a href="http://www.fishnette.net/spew/2008/12/and-right-cheers.html" rel="nofollow">posted</a> on this yesterday... the posts are similar on all the news sites' bad news it seems. one way to look at it is that these are the folks who have time on their hands, i guess. i posted on this yesterday… the posts are similar on all the news sites’ bad news it seems. one way to look at it is that these are the folks who have time on their hands, i guess.

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