Brad-

I feel your pain and share that same sick humor.  I also know that there are probably many reporters at WaPo and the NYT that are feeling pretty bad about what has happened to the credibility of the fourth estate in general, and their respective institutions.

But the only way to fight the nonsense is to convince these institutions that it is not in the interest of the bottom line to lie to readers.

In this new day, with corruption rife in the halls of government and DC, these rags will only be put right if they can be shown it is economically damaging to be an outlet for BushCo spin.  The coveted "access" for which it seems they have sold their souls will not save them from a storm of advertisers whose services and goods are being boycotted.

Want to help put the WaPo back on track?  Pick the top ten ads from the Sunday paper and write a letter or an email to those businesses.  Tell them you will not buy or click till the WaPo begins to tell the truth. 

I'm not sure what the readership is here at the Cafe, but if 300 or 400 thousand messages to advertisers went out, there would be change.

I just wish we could channel Saul Alinsky and flush the crooks and liars out that way..... 

It appears to be the view of those who've followed Ms. Howell's past activities for Newhouse at the St. Paul Pioneer Press that her function is to expand a paper's suburbanite Republican readership.  There, she spoke for and published columnists who appeal to those who are most comfortable with the RNC's views.

Since no newspaper can regularly overlook the news of what the governing party is doing and since the governing party has displayed a good deal of corruption, incompetence, and favoritism, her goal is to reduce the cognitive dissonance which such reporting gives rise to among the desired readership.  After all, those made uncomfortable by the news are likely to cancel their subscriptions to the newspaper which is the source of their discomfort.

From the point of view of the managers of the Washington Post, I think it's fair to conclude she's doing the job for which she was hired.

Buy I'll say it again. The notion that this College Republican, this Republican Pioneer, this central player in the K-Street project "directs" money  to Democrats is like saying Susan Sarandon sends checks to Trent Lott.  Trying to make this a bipartisan scandal is shockingly laughable, and the Post's trying to do so is very troubling. 

looks like a kidnappers ransom note created from cut out magazine text...Hardly persuasive...Yet she and Brady, from this "so-called evidence" make a blanket assertion about all Indian Tribe contributions to democrats being directed by Abramoff.

<img border="0" src="http://www.bartcopnation.com/dc/user_files/12140.jpg " alt="Howell's Supposedly Persuasive Evidence" title="Howell's Supposedly Persuasive Evidence">

Someone suggested boycotting the Post and contacting advertisers about our boycott.

The problem with this is the same as with boycotting oil companies. There are no nice oil companies, and the same goes for newspapers these days.

A second problem is that we really need the product. We're not going to go without news. What we'll always do in the end is buy the least obnoxious newspaper and read between the lines, as Russians did with Pravda.

A third problem I don't have enough information about to be sure of is finance. To the extent that publications are controlled by people or groups with larger financial interests, actual earnings from the newspaper might be secondary to the use of the paper to attain financially-beneficial political goals -- e.g. low taxes. (Recently Knight-Ridder, which performed well during the Second Gulf War, was bought out. What will this end up meaning?)

There is in fact a solution, which I've mentioned many times without much response. get a hundred million or so together and put together a new national newspaper. That would be money much better spent than the half-billion blown every four years on Presidential campaigns alone. (There have to be a lot of talented, demoralized reporters ready to jump the Times and the Post).

The analogy with oil fails.  We need oil or other related energy products.  We don't need anything the Washington Post produces.  In fact, it's easier to get news online, and online news is usually more comprehensive than what one reads in the newspaper. 

If the newspaper sucks, why buy it?   

Rick, the news you get online usually comes from print sources such as the Post. Look at the bylines.

One thing that has come out in the long discussion of blogs and the internet is that the internet doesn't generate much news. Opinion, yes. Criticism, yes. But there aren't many full-time reporters who don't have a print outlet.

Regardless of whether we need the newspapers, they have a major influence on opinion which we can't afford to write off.

好~!


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