Los Angeles Times et al

It is impossible to be more clueless than the current editorial writers employed by this once great newspaper. Or for that matter, some of the Nation’s other once great newspapers.

The LA Times recently opined about the disappearance of small town and county newspapers, offering up the following from a rather lengthy editorial Sunday May 24th.    

“Courageous work is being done by journalists across America, but locally owned newspapers are ultimately more accountable to their communities than chains owned by hedge funds and private equity firms.”

“According to the Pew Research Center, a solid majority of Americans say their local news outlets report the news accurately, hold political leaders accountable and deal fairly with all sides. Unfortunately, that support has not been enough to ensure the survival of the news ecosystem in an age of truth decay, hyperpolarization and misinformation.”

“If local news goes out of business, the damage to our democracy will be severe and irreversible.”

If courageous work was being done, regardless of who owns the paper, where is the curiosity about the foundation of “Obamagate”?  Why haven’t these courageous journalists checked the veracity of these serious allegations against members of the previous administration? What reporters have read any of the declassified documents released by the FBI and Department of Justice? Why isn’t there widespread reporting of those papers?  There was a whole lot of curiosity about the Watergate matter even after Nixon referred to it as nothing more than a “third rate burglary”. 

One must wonder what the Pew pollsters were smoking when their survey determined that local news outlets report the news accurately, hold political leaders accountable and deal fairly with all sides. Weather forecasts and sports scores are reported accurately and precious else.

Any honest broker of truth knows that most newspaper column inches dedicated to the current President are negative in nature. One firm reported that the figure is over 90%. Does anyone believe that 90% of their subscribers intensely hate the President? Perhaps the editors and reporters ought to remember that conservatives buy their newspapers as well, albeit in ever diminishing numbers. Wonder why?

The former president of CBS news, Van Gordon Sauter, conceded in a Wall Street Journal piece that the media has a severe liberal tilt that they won’t admit.  He further stated,

“America won’t reunite until far more people can look at a news story in print or on the screen and, of all things, believe it.” Sauter nailed it. Think about the non-stop print and cable bashing of the current administration.  If their reportage was true, then Joe Biden would win all fifty states and the 80% of popular vote in the upcoming election, never leaving his basement bunker.

Victor Davis Hanson, Senior Fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institute, began his recent column in Real Clear Politics, The  Doctrine of Media Untruth, with this opening:

“When knowledge, wisdom, independent thought, even basic competence were no longer requisites for success, then the media naturally slid into mediocrity, and mastered networking and obsequiousness instead of valuing independence.”

As a general rule, when the New York Times, the Washington Post, National Public Radio, Public Broadcasting Service, NBC, CBS, ABC, MSNBC, and CNN begin to parrot a narrative, the truth often is found in simply believing just the opposite.”

So, readers of newspapers and broadcast watchers, should consider the value of honest local and national reportage.  It’s more than obvious based on even casual observer that the folks are not getting unbiased coverage of the news, state of federal.  That is the real damage that’s being done to our democratic republic. That’s why the LA Times, the New York Times and the Washington Post are leaking money like sieves, laying off employees as advertising revenue and readers also vanish

Wonder how long the billionaires who own them will subsidized the continued bias? 

Probably until they have 3 readers. One for each paper…themselves.