Slim Times For American Newspapers. Good!
American newspapers are dying. Let us celebrate, since in their extinction lies the only hope for journalism—and (as I will illustrate via my recent experience with the Gannett-owned Asbury [NJ] Park Press) for the patriotic immigration reform so desperately needed by the American nation.
In former Times (that’s Times with a capital “T”) it would have been unthinkable to say such a thing. Newspapers were journalism and journalism was newspapers. But those days are long gone, and it’s not just because of talk radio and the internet.
What we have in these Times are newspapers engaging in the fraud of providing propaganda in the guise of journalism. Until these publications disappear, journalism as we once knew it can’t make a comeback.
Of course, reporters, and even editors, have always been human. But when even a small city would have several competing papers, it was unlikely that one paper could for long get away with fooling the public.
Additionally, newspapers were largely owned, edited and to a considerable degree staffed by people who actually were from the town about which they wrote. Thus, when you got the Sheboygan (Wis.) Press, The Indianapolis Star or the Florence (Ala.) Times-Daily it was a pretty sure thing that when you read an editorial, the news pages, the women’s page—whatever—you were reading something written or at least edited by someone who had roots in that city.
Not so today. The people writing the editorial in the Hendersonville (N.C.) Times News or “reporting” about events in the Asbury Park Press are corporate gypsies who come from someplace else via some school of journalism located somewhere else. They are all waiting to move to a bigger paper in a bigger city on the way up to starting the trip all over again back down in the small towns as assistant editor.
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“PATRIOTIC immigration reform.”
We’re never going to appeal to people who don’t attend gun shows, watch Nascar, and listen to Country music if we continue to use this kind of language. Trust me. As a pro-white progressive I can tell you that hearing the word “patriotic” is like listening to nails scrape across a chalkboard.
I, too, spent 25 years in the Newspaper Industry (18.5 with Gannett). As a Conservative Thinker, I was like a freckle on a 2 Axe-Handle Backside inside any Gannett Property. Local Employees were only allowed in Production, Circulation, Advertising and, to some degree, Public Relations (management excluded). I was at one Gannett Property when a New Publisher came on board and, during his first staff meeting he stated, “What I saw as I walked from one department to another is / was ‘too male and too pale’. Direct Quote, this was…………I kid you not. Less that two years later, much more tan and much less man. What a transition that was. Now, 12 years later, this property is 30% down in circulation from ‘97. Way to go Champ.