“Of course, the real elephant drooling in the room of newspapers like the Seattle Times these days is “the forgotten reader.” These are the potential readers who, because of the unremitting liberal tone and slant of the Times in both the news hole and on the editorial page, loathe the Times and the whole sector of Seattle society it represents.
Now you may say, in a town as overwhelmingly liberal as Seattle, “Screw those troglodyte, Republican morons!” Well, you can say that but then you will, sooner or later, fire 200 of your employees.
Since legions, bars, restaurants, trains, planes, boats, (in fact ever square inch of semi enclosed or enclosed public property ) have banned the tobacco smoker from their premises; the revenue from sales and spin offs (like tips)has declined dramatically for both owners and employees.
As business close their doors and lay off employees they wonder: ‘where have all the clients gone, short time passing…’ Even non smokers find the fetid air of Control hard to breath; funny how that happens….the whiners got what they wanted and now they feel it wasn’t worth the fanatical fight because they have lost the POWER that they craved- it was fun trashing the evil smoker but when they find that their crowing falls like lead in an empty space and tax $$ for other ‘pet projects’ drys up: why, it just makes one want to stamp his/her feet, gnash the teeth and roar – it isn’t fair!!
Same goes for the newspaper that prints news that is too dry to intrest even the most dull (lefty) soul.
The reader has found the internet and fabulous sites like sda, the smokers go to smoke friendly private residences to visit. Life goes on, on the terms of the consumer.
Jema, your comments always remnd me what an invidious addiction smoking is. You seem an intelligent person, yet you relate any topic to your frantic desire to smoke anywhere you like. Does your whole life revolve around this habit? Even at my worst, i was never this obsessed with it. And by the way, nobody cares about your health; we’re just worried about young people and the disgusting effects of being around you. Got it? And yes, my air is much fresher without you in it.
sublime tobacco
from east to west
cheers the turkman’s labour
and the sailor’s rest
nothin like a fag after a cheeseburger…esp. with french cheese…stinky french cheese avec ca scent d’une femme qui se neglige !
Well, you can say that but then you will, sooner or later, fire 200 of your employees.
To the Toronto Star: Faster, please!
christopher rivers; You’re a sanctimonious prig. What I’d like to know is why quitting smoking turns you folks into such. I’d rather sit in a bar full of smoke rather than wherever you hang out.
Now these reporters are free to protest against Globull Worming, the G8, NAFTA, The “apartheid regime” of a democratic Israel, GWB, they can work for PETA, Earth First, Greenpeace, WWF, Code Pinko, Obama, recycling, oh wait……isn’t this what they’ve been doing all along?
“we’re just worried about young people and the disgusting effects of being around you.”
Hugo butts out Bart! Scratch Los Simpsons. Viva los socialismo.
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“Bad Bart Simpson is banished for Baywatch in Venezuela”
http://tinyurl.com/64jvqa (yimes)
Only 45 out of the 200 hundred are from the newsroom. They probably will not be the “name” reporters. In other words nothing will change there. It is similar to saving money by not having enough lifeboats on the Titanic.
Alienating half their potential readers and placing political prejudice over profits, rather than reporting balanced news – these bastards deservedly reap what they sow.
Capitalism = bad. How bizarre these morons are.
Beck had a piece on Starbucks support of leftist causes and rejection of the right last night. Fine, they have chosen sides, they can reap financial disaster as well. I won’t be buying any coffee there anymore. Apparently, they’re already in trouble.
“Richard Warman has sued me — and other conservative bloggers
[…]
Warman’s suit would censor the conservative blogosphere
Warman’s not just suing me. He’s suing some of the biggest names in the Canadian blogosphere – from Kate McMillan of Small Dead Animals to Kathy Shaidle of Five Feet of Fury (or, Five Feet of Furry, as the lawsuit says on page 2), to Free Dominion, the largest conservative chat site in Canada. Warman’s goal is breathtaking in its chutzpah: he wants to muzzle the Canadian conservative Internet. It’s not just his goal – it’s the goal of the CHRC itself, and its friends at the Canadian Jewish Congress, who have stated their goal is to “tame” the Internet – or at least those voices they disagree with. It wouldn’t surprise me one bit if the CJC was bankrolling Warman’s lawsuit – they’ve done joint legal work together before, and Warman’s number one defender is on the CJC’s legal committee. The CJC hates conservatives, and this would be a way for them to do damage to the conservative blogosphere without taking the political flak for it.”
http://ezralevant.com/2008/04/richard-warman-has-sued-me-and.html
CBCpravda is just such an organization, yet we the taxpayer are forced to fund it. With a 7% viewership it is an albatoss around our collective necks.
a pox on CBCpravda. when Borat Dion finally throws the poofter gauntlet for an election , expect a full out leftist onslaught from Pravda as it will be their last dying gasps as the publicly funded electronic rag.
Buggy whip manufacturers saw similar declines right before they went stony broke.
I expect books and glossy magazines to survive, because they are a tangible thing you buy for its own sake in addition to the “content”. Surfing the Hot Rod website isn’t the same as reading Hot Rod magazine, people will likely keep paying for that.
But who wants to wade through pages of classified ads printed on smelly newsprint with ink that rubs off on your hands, when you can surf up -exactly- what you want, already sorted by price, for free?
Bite down on it, Lefties. “You hear that? That is the sound of inevitability.”
let’s face it we are sharing this world with a cadre of aliberal phonies masquerading as morally superior beings wrapped in the blanket of moral relativism and political correctness.
The buffoons in the media think these people actually ARE the majority and slant their news/views to pander to the cretins of society.
Reality is that the tongue clucking fingerwagging scolds are just LOUDER than everyone else and do NOT respresent enough of a market to sustain the pandering press and the mewling Media.
Winnipeg’s Free Press is perfect example!
I had occasion last year about this time to converse with a member of the editorial board there. He was clueless as they come on these matters and sounded pretty well dejected at being caught up in the crowd of paralyzed publishers.
Now how many MSM jobs has Kate cost?
Wonder if theres a multiplier somewhere,
100 hits/day = 1 full time MSMer??? 500? 1000?
Lots anyway, I mean you are looking at this when you could be watching CTV.
Might even be lower than that like 20-1 as far as audience goes. Who reads more than 20 articles in the Winnipeg Free Press? If you read 20 threads on line I’d say it’s very likely you spend less time with MSM’s than 10 yrs ago if any.
Now whats the audience to employee ration I wonder.
Luckily while lefty MSM’s may have forgotten me small dead animals didn’t.
Irwin daisy I stopped going to starbucks when they made cups that said how great homosexuals were.
The mills of the free market, like those of God, grind slowly, but they grind exceeding small. It’s possible, of course, to make a financial success of a publication that caters to only a small part of the populace, but it’s pretty clear that a newspaper, which, with a few exceptions (the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and a few others), is already restricted in geography, can’t further restrict its market according to political persuasion and still expect to make money.
It also wouldn’t surprise me to find that many of the readers of the Seattle Times aren’t bothered as much by the paper’s left-wing editorial stance as they are by the fact that it isn’t confined to the editorial pages.
I am reading Amity Shlaes book The Forgotten Man at the moment. The term ‘the forgotten man’ comes from an essay written by W G Sumner in 1883 and the snippet she focuses on is the best summary of anti -collectivism I have read.
I am not sure how newspapers are suppose to save themselves now. I am not convinced the Seattle Times would be doing much better if they catered to the right as well as the left. It would be an incoherent newspaper. I think it would be better if U.S., and Canada for that matter, were more like U.K. where there are newspapers that cater to all political stripes. The overwhelming Liberal slant that MSM has is not at all healthy because many people are turned off by it and only a dwindling number of people accept it.
“we’re just worried about young people and the disgusting effects of being around you.”
Not me Chris; I really don’t like to hang with people that “speak for the children”,…speak for yourself.
(I’m a Non-Smoker)
OMMAG at April 9, 2008 10:05 AM: The Winnipeg Free Press, arguably as full of lefty crap as the average MSM production, is still bucking the continent-wide trend in terms of its financial performance. This may be due to its having a dominant position in a fairly isolated market, but even Winnipeggers have access to the internet. It is quite surprising how the Freep income trust share price holds up and it continues to pay a very generous dividend. However, I can’t see it lasting.
As for Starbucks, I am pleased to say that I have never darkened their doors, ever.
Hmm, newspapers all over North America lose readers, lose revenue and shed staff but the reason the Seattle Times is faltering is a liberal slant. Go figure.
Felis Corp….. Yes and anyone who thinks it’s a good investment is free to put their money there!
The Freep is sustained by adverts from Car Dealerships as far as I can tell…….
Hmmm … the BBC is the best (IMHHHO) of the left wing media because it tends to report then spin. I grew up in the era when the USSR was a major power and its propaganda was pervasive, and I have good de-spin routines in my brain. The worst (IMHO) is our own Blubb and Wail, which suppresses rather than spins; and an anti spin routine is no good if it has nothing to work on.
The Blubb and Wail is so bad that some days it contains no news at all!
Have just Paypalled Ezra what I can to help him in his fight against the Inquisitioners.
I hope more will do the same. And Kate, when you write that you are being sued as well,
I will try to donate as well.
“Strategic and thoughtful changes to the way we do business will allow us to be positioned for the future.”
Translation:
Notice to employees: we will continue doing the same thing we have been doing, except with less of you. We will call it hope and change. Furthermore, we will continue with this hope and change until there are none of you left.
Therein lies the problem. What future?
Hi Katie,
Came via Sondrak.com. Cracked up over “Not Waiting For The Astroid”. Read some others too. You are VERY good AND bookmarked next to my Headmistress. :O)~
The Seattle Times isn’t loathed for being too liberal or slanted, it’s loathed for being a crappy paper run by a moron, Frank Blethen.
These are the potential readers who, because of the unremitting liberal tone and slant of the Times in both the news hole and on the editorial page, loathe the Times and the whole sector of Seattle society it represents.
Let’s unpack this sentence. First, can you give examples of Times news coverage that are obviously biased towards the left? Second, you’re suggesting that there is a vast number of people who hate an entire swathe of Seattle society simply because the Times is a bad newspaper? Really?
I have a better idea Gabriel. See if you can find a (one) example of Seattle Times coverage of a major news even that ISN’T obviously biased toward the Left. It will be a much shorter search that way.
Conservatives generally want their government to back off and leave them the hell alone. They don’t have much use for the “entire swathe of Seattle society” which refuses to do that.
Hate might be too strong a word. Maybe “ire”. Hate we usually reserve for people who blow up buildings. Well, I do anyway, other’s mileage may vary, I suppose.
Most people I know who buy the damn fossil press bull do so merely because it’s wrapped around the sports page. The advent of inexpensive daily local sports papers would send what’s left of the presstards to the hellish oblivion they so richly deserve.
Phantom – If you don’t have evidence, just say so. Otherwise click on over to the Seattle Times website and find me a clear example.
Gabriel, why don’t you take your concerns to American Digest, where those statements originated (as indicated by the link and blockquoting)? They aren’t statements by Kate, Phantom, or anyone else here.
Can’t handle a dissenting viewpoint here, Charles? There are obviously people at this blog and in the comments who agree with the posted sentiments, and I’m free to argue with them.
Incidentally, you’ll notice that no one at American Digest provides evidence of liberal bias either. Interesting.
“And by the way, nobody cares about your health; we’re just worried about young people and the disgusting effects of being around you. Got it? And yes, my air is much fresher without you in it.”
Chris Rivers – why do you hate me and wish me ill health? You do not know me. What ‘young people’ are you referring to, do I know them?
Are you a Lucy?
You did not deny the fact that the smoking bans are running people out of business. Did you agree with my facts and the comparison to newspapers?
Thanks bob c and other taxpayers here who understand the consequences of reckless, fanatical, agenda driven acts .
I don’t care whether you dissent or not, Gabriel. If you wish to challenge an assertion, why not go directly to the person who made it, and presumably has the supporting evidence at hand? Few people outside the Seattle area are likely to read the Seattle Times.
“Incidentally, you’ll notice that no one at American Digest provides evidence of liberal bias either. Interesting.”
Have you asked them to do so? I just checked, and there are no comments from “Gabriel”, while even Michael Totten has weighed in.
There are entire websites devoted to documenting bias at major media outlets such as the BBC. Are there none keeping an eye on the Seattle Times? If it is that insignificant a player, who cares whether it is biased or not?
I’m always shocked to remember that Seattle has a “real newspaper” that pretends to compete with the Post-Intelligence[r].
The worst part about the claim that the Strang[l]er is the only “real newspaper” in Seattle is that it’s arguably true.
Not that the Strangler is so bad, as an “alternative weekly” kinda thing filled with escort service ads, but that Seattle can’t manage an Actual Newspaper.
Gabriel, unless you’re signing my paychecks you get to do your own research and support your own arguments. I don’t work for the likes of you, monkey boy.
Phantom – thanks for confirming that you’re completely unable to defend your own arguments. You certainly don’t know jack.
Dad gum liberal evolutionists always blabbering thier idiotic poppycock now claiming that all humans decendede from agoofy looking fish heck even fish know those little legs make them look silly AND IM GOING TO GET VIOLENT WITH THOSE EVOLUTIONISTS IM GOING TO PICK OUT THEIR EYES SQUAWK SQUAWK