Oh the heartbreak, the bastard child of the old "gray lady" of the Manhattan elite is falling apart. Union leaders insist their fate is a done deal if they don't immediately surrender $20 million in concessions.
USA TODAY article: http://www.usatoday.com/money/media/2009-04-04-newyorktimes-bostonglobe_N.htm?csp=34
It's difficult to watch a hideous creature tossing and contorting grotesquely as the last of its life blood gushes down the drain, but the Boston newspaper is continuously losing money and readership.
How ironic it is to see them as the big mean corporation having to pressure the unions for concessions. Isn't that what those big mean capitalist pig auto companies are doing? Perhaps the real irony is these elitist limousine liberals acting like the champions of the lowly Proletariat in the first place.
Clearly, the best The Boston Globe can hope for is to buy a little time. There's no way they're going to reinvent themselves as a modern, responsive, unbiased example of responsive modern journalism.
The newspaper industry is in free fall for two reasons: one unavoidable, the other self imposed. With the availability of 24 hour cable news and the Internet, all one needs is a tricked out cell phone to have instant access to the news 24 x 7. Blogging provides instant ability for readers to react to the news as well. Given many newspapers have scaled back to where many only publish one edition a day, the paper's content is often old news by the time it reaches the readers' hands. Speaking of the readers' hands, the new news sources don't create those dirty inky fingers either! Ah, but can anyone figure out how to use the Internet to line the bottom of hamster cages?
The newspaper industry's behavior has also destroyed their product. Between sloppy coverage, agenda driven reporting, and an undeniably conspicuous left-wing bias, today's newspaper editors have rendered the product itself worthless. Even many citizens who did not like President George W. Bush and did not support the Iraq war, could easily be dismayed by The New York Times outing government intelligence with such arrogant disregard for the security of the nation which protects its journalistic freedom. Reporting on how the government tracked the money trail of how terrorists organizations fund their operation destroyed years of intelligence gathering and analysis by showing our enemies, those Islamic terrorists pledged to kill us how the intelligence operations follow their activities.
The American people are smart enough to know the difference between rational expression of first amendment freedom and pure treason. During World War II, the journalist profession readily accepted the wisdom of "loose lips sink ships."
This second factor not only extends to the failure of the newspaper industry, but both CNN and the conspicuously radical, MSNBC are witnessing dismal ratings continuing to lose ground to Fox news demonstrates the public is holding the industry accountable for the quality of its reporting.
Alas, rather than letting archaic newspapers follow the path of the dinosaur, at least one Senator, Ben Cardin, Democrat, Maryland, has offered bailout legislation to help protect the failing news industry. Given how the Obama adminstration has become drunk with power operating the bailout programs for the banking and automotive industry where the self-annointed "Great One's" henchmen can determine executive salaries and fire GM's chief executive, one can only imagine what influence Premier Obama might attempt to exercise over the news media. Likewise, plenty of Democrats in congress stand ready to impose the fairness doctrine on radio and television effectively killing the independent voice of conservative talk radio.
Out of the ashes of today's fallen newspapers from Seattle through the rustbelt to Boston, the prospects of a Washington version of Tass does not seem so far-fetched.
Meanwhile, the public has sources like Fox News, the Drudge Report, Town Hall.com, and Breitbart.com, with new sources emerging all the time, which go against the flow to provide balance to main stream media's biased coverage.
To The Boston Globe and hopefully soon its parent company, The New York Times, we offer the following advice, "Don't let the door hit you where the good Lord split you."
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