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I have to admit, I pretty much only read philly.com for the sports reporting and honestly, the sports reporting there is pathetic.
Anyway, with Brian Tierney at the helm, he has slowly turned the paper into a joke, by employing the cast offs and failures of the right wing party: Smerconish, Santorum and now John Yoo.
As a business model, this makes no sense. The Philadelphia metro area is overwhelmingly a democratic party voting populace. Unless Tierney's goal is to expand the paper's reach to compete with the washington timeses of the world, well maybe there's money in the 30% of the population in the United States that is the core of the right wing party. Perhaps the advertising revenues will pour in with full page ads by the American Enterprise Institute, Diebold, Coors and Wal-Mart.
However, you have to figure that a good 95% of that group is illiterate and therefore, most likely not going to turn to philly.com for their news.
Oh well, I guess the domain name of philly.com will become available in next few years.
I disagree. As venal as it sounds, despite the strong pro-Obama winds and liberal leanings of the country overall, I think it's pretty safe to say that liberals/dems might be less inclined to invest in the daily paper that is just saying what it already knows.
ReplyDeleteBetter perhaps to lean against the tide, and publish your subjective vectives going the other way, and hope to coax the Archie Bunkers out of the lairs and to the newstands. It's working for Rush, Glenn Beck, Fox News, etc.
But I'll trade them anyday for Daily Show/Colbert watchers who know the truth. But as much as we ridicule/fear radical fundamentalism elsewhere, it's amazing how blind we are to it right fucking here.
I mean isn't the greatest argument against torture the fear that the same will be done to us? Isn't signing off on torture sort of prescribing the same for our guys? So if you are for torture, then you are against out troops, and isn't it funny how so many of the torture cheerleaders are the same guys who somehow slipped service? So as it stands, the guys who are calling the shots, are the last guys you would pick for your dodgeball team.
Still, as in the NHL playoffs, it is in the world of politics. Complacency never pays. You don't have to be neurotic about it (Nixon), but Obama's experience has got to show that no one's getting cut any slack.