7 Replies to “Not Waiting For The Asteroid”

  1. I read a copy of Newsweek last year as I was waiting in an airport. I guess I was expecting something like what it was back the 1980’s. I was amazed by how overtly left-wing it had become.
    Not just left-wing in a Washington Post or CNN kind of way, where they at least pretend to be neutral, but an overt and in-your-face kind of progressiveness.
    I wonder what genius with an MBA thought that was a good business move?

  2. Jan 1, 2011: “Destroying all your shareholder value in order to be Obamugabe’s palace guard should at least be good for a government takeover or something!” whined the CEO as he was being led out of his office by the receivers….

  3. The Lame Stream Media is starting to realize that only their most extreme marxist highly placed wacko insiders have a call on their buddies in Obamugabe’s regime for future employment at his side. The run of the mill bootlickers in the dead tree media and TV networks have the Arlen Specter example to contemplate: “Thank you for your collaboration in the past but keep in touch, something in the way of a position may turn up eventually to reward you for ………………”

  4. rabbit, I’m even older. I can remember when Newsweek, Time and US News & World Report were actually news magazines of some substance. US News & World Report particularly had excellent journalists who professionally researched and wrote pretty bias-free articles.
    Like so much other social rot, their decline began in the 1960’s. Future historians, assuming that Big Brother hasn’t captured the world, will look back at the 1960’s as a pivotal decade; “interesting times”, as the ancient Chinese epithet went.

  5. “And about the same time, CNN and CBS announced that they were in talks to consolidate their news operations.”
    it’s a message from god to The MSM and Ted Tuner … to stop publishing.

  6. Sorry, don’t have the link, but The Nation is apparently looking for donations to help it with a $1,000,000 deficit. The comments don’t indicate much sympathy. I think they should rent out Kristina VandenHeuvel to haunt houses.

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