TV airwaves are public too.

This is nothing new! The media hasn’t done it’s job since…..Hoover? I mean guys this is how they have always been, but the new media has smoked them out. The MM is a hard-line political body that has always been in the business of king-making. Media by nature IS partisan and has always been. The only thing that has changed is that the media has hidden behind the use of “objectivity” to masquerade their bias. Unfortunately for them is that this last election revealed much of that bias to the American people, and the majority of them saw it on display. This will come back to haunt them, mark my words they will pay dearly for this in the future.

In my opinion, most people that voted for Obama did so out of ignorance of who he really was. Truman was re-elected the same way by campaigning in a manner so that no one knew what he stood for (sound familiar?). What did we get from him? An attempt to nationalize the steel industry!

This Youtube clip is a great example of what happens when you get someone to vote who has no idea what they are doing. Liberalism thrives upon these types- Ignorance is the opiate of the Marxist, and obviously the delight of the Obama voter.

I think the dropping circulation of fish wrappers is due to their being so many better choices for entertainment, not because people are looking for less filtered information. One lady in the video said that she gets most of her political information from the Daily Show, and I suspect that is the trend that is hurting newspapers the most. At least the Daily Show is funnier than Doonesbury, which I suppose is a net advance in our civilization.

I don’t know CounterClckWise, they seemed to know an awful lot about Sarah Palin’s wardrobe and her pregnant teenage daughter.

I see your point, Sebastian, and I agree–to a point. Still, the “news” media offers what sells, and wardrobes and pregnant teenagers are just the kinds of thing that sell to the kind of public that finds Britney Spears and Paris Hilton fascinating.

You can blame the media, but if we believe in free markets, we have to acknowledge that this is the kind of media consumers want–if they didn’t, we wouldn’t have it.