Pissing in the Wind - MSM Style
As the newsprint media is rotting on the vine, they are trying to release more propaganda, this time to support themselves!
"...the industry is painting itself as a vital source of information..."
If their definition of "vital source of information" is biased facts and misinformation, then maybe they are correct. But the American public is not as dumb as the newsrags believe they are. The people know when they are being fed a load of crap, they know when they read an important article on the internet, but not in the newspaper, that something is fishy, and that something is the what they wrap their fish in.
The NY Slimes is dying, along with other major papers. And no amount of advertising is going to help.
I say good riddance to bad rubbish!
Mr Minority
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - Several newspaper executives launched a public relations campaign Monday to counter what they call "gloom-and-doom" reports of the industry's demise.
Sure, they admit, times are tough. The economy is bad, the Internet has sucked away advertising dollars and people are losing jobs.
But the 100 million people who read a newspaper the day after the Super Bowl outnumbered the TV audience for the game, the group said in an advertisement that appeared Monday in more than 300 daily newspapers, including The New York Times and The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
With the ads, commentary pieces and a Web site, the industry is painting itself as a vital source of information and the best place for advertisers to sell anything from grapes to a house _ not the dinosaur often portrayed in the media.
"...the industry is painting itself as a vital source of information..."
If their definition of "vital source of information" is biased facts and misinformation, then maybe they are correct. But the American public is not as dumb as the newsrags believe they are. The people know when they are being fed a load of crap, they know when they read an important article on the internet, but not in the newspaper, that something is fishy, and that something is the what they wrap their fish in.
The NY Slimes is dying, along with other major papers. And no amount of advertising is going to help.
I say good riddance to bad rubbish!
Mr Minority
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