And this is why people are clueless about why their lives are getting harder.
Hat tip Tom C
Category: Journalism
Philadelphia Inquirer Still In Decline
The latest Alliance for Audited Media report puts the print circulation of The Philadelphia Inquirer at just 184,827 with its digital circulation at 67,958 and branded editions at 54,048 for a total of circulation of 306,832. This is a drop of 18,458 from last March.
The area the Inquirer covers has a population of 5.77 million. Even including the digital readers that’s not a real good penetration.
In its heyday, the Inky’s print circulation was over a half million.
Philadelphia Inquirer Still In Decline
Newspaper Exploits Texas Tragedy
Newspaper Exploits Texas Tragedy — The oh-so-liberal, oh-so-compassionate Sacramento Bee, which is the 27th largest newspaper in the nation, has published a cartoon featuring Texas Gov. Rick Perry saying “Business is booming in Texas,” with the next panel depicting the explosion of the West Fertilizer Co. explosion which killed at least 15 and seriously injured scores of others.
Ho ho ho. How incisive. Being ironic about the suffering of others is just so hip.
These people, these Democrats, who influence so many, make any decent person sick.
Here’s a link to the cartoon at Breitbart.com.
Newspaper Exploits Texas Tragedy
Newspaper Exploits Texas
Papelbon Guns And Pompous Pretensions Of Sports Writers
Papelbon Guns And Pompous Pretensions Of Sports Writers— Phillies reliever Jonathan Papelbon, who was once a star for the Red Sox, was asked by Boston media people for some comments about safety at sporting events in light of the Boston Marathon attack.
“The Phillies did this thing the other day where we came down
through the bleachers for one opening game, and I don’t feel comfortable
doing that,” he said. “I really, truly don’t. Today’s day and age
has gotten so crazy, everything. You know, all this stuff going on.
Shoot, man, Obama wants to take our guns from us and everything, you’ve got this kind of stuff going on. It’s a little bit insane for me. I
really don’t know how to take it.”
Well, golly did that provide an opportunity for the pompous pundit wannabees stuck with covering sports a chance to wax wise about a political issue.
“The man clearly did not major in classical philosophy when he was
at Mississippi State, so we probably should not be surprised if there is
anything two-dimensional or self-centered about his processing of the
events of the last 48 hours,” said David Murphy of the Philadelphia Daily News. “He gets paid money (a lot) to pitch (one
inning). This is an example of why we are better off letting him
concentrate on that.”
So Murphy, you major in classical philosophy? How about just an occasional reading of Western political philosophy? You ever come across William Blackstone’s quote: Free men have arms; slaves do not. You ever hear of William Blackstone? Stupid question. Of course not. You are a sports writer.
How about Thomas “No freeman shall be debarred the use of arms” Jefferson?
By the way, at least Papelbon attended college unlike high school drop out Jim Carrey, who has actually made a crusade about the issue rather than merely provide a from-the-heart answer to a question.
Oh, and here is some classical philosophy for you: μολὼν λαβέ
Papelbon Guns And Pompous Pretensions Of Sports Writers
Smerconish Gone From WPHT
Smerconish Gone From WPHT — Teri Adams of the Independence Hall Tea Party Association tells us that as of yesterday, April 15, WPHT 1210 AM has a new daily lineup that does not feature Michael Smerconish, who has apparently invested the 30 pieces of silver he has earned over the last five years into a podcast.
Chris Stigall runs from 6 a.m. to 10 a.m.; the always great Dom Giordano adds another hour and runs from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. and national pundit Dick Morris joins Gary R’nel from 2 to 6 p.m.
Smerconish Gone From WPHT
Emptiness Of The 4th Estate
As many Americans remain unaware of the horrors created by the “pro choice” movement as unveiled by the Kermit Gosnell trial, and are unlikely to know that the man for whom they voted for president is a staunch supporter of making legal the deeds committed by Gosnell, many are unaware that 700 special forces veterans have signed a letter demanding a new investigation into the Sept. 11, 2012 Benghazi attack that killed three of their comrades along with diplomat Chris Stevens.
Apparently, they don’t believe the explanations offered by the Obama administration and reported by the old media a.k.a the “mainstream media” the MSM, the lamestream media.
Emptiness Of The 4th Estate
Reporter’s Gosnell Blackout
Reporter’s Gosnell Blackout
Washington Post Idiot Journalism
Washington Post Idiot Journalism — The consequence of bad voting/bad journalism/bad education is happening as a Drudge link to a Washington Post article shows: Cancer clincs are turning away Medicare patients.
The Post is citing sequestration cuts — as expected from a Washington establishment propaganda publication — without mentioning the hundreds of billions Obamacare has siphoned from Medicare or considering the consequences of the $17 trillion debt that the sequestration attempts to address no matter how feebly. Quick quiz: what happens to the the purchasing power of a dollar when it loses half its value?
Further, the Post fails to consider the looming shortfall of primary care physicians as per another Drudge link to an AARP site that advocates replacing them with nurse practitioners. Hear that cancer patients? Nothing to worry about.
Commentators are raking the Post and the establishment over the coals for their hand-waving insensitivity and their attempt to use the crisis to gain more power.
And this leads us to the comment of the day from a doctor using the handle Joelhassfan4:
This
is disturbing on so many levels, no wonder there are already over 5000
comments and growing exponentially as I write. As a doctor, this is
exhibit A of why Abomination Care, ie PPACA has to be redone at the very
least. Polticians are not clinicians they have no clue how to triage,
and boy, will they be punitive at the drop of a hat!
Frankly, I
have said this at so many sites and no one seems to show any interest
in the perspective, but, I think we are ruled, not represented mind you,
by a growing percentage of antisocial scum. Look up in the Wikepedia
definition of Antisocial Personality Disorder, and apply it just to the
leaders of both parties, and you will see they meet at least 3-4 of the
qualifying descriptors.
Yeah, real leadership, go after people who are terminally ill. What a freadin’ precedent, from the President on down.
Incumbent = incompetent, just move around some letters!!!
Washington Post Idiot Journalism
New York Times Reporters New Blondes
New York Times Reporters New Blondes — Due to the tendency The New York Times has developed in making extraordinarily boneheaded mistakes its reporting, author Andrew Klavan has suggested replacing demeaning blonde jokes with enlightening New York Times reporter jokes:
Here are our contributions:
A young ventriloquist is touring the clubs and stops to entertain at a
bar in a small town. He’s going through his usual run of silly New York
Times reporter jokes when a big woman in the fourth row stands on her
chair and says,
“OK jerk, I’ve heard just about enough of your
denigrating New York Times reporter jokes. What makes you think you can
stereotype New York Times reporters that way? What does a person’s job
description have to do with their worth as a human being? It’s guys like
you who keep New York Times reporters like me from being respected at
work and in my community, of reaching my full potential as a person…
because you and your kind continue to perpetuate discrimination against
not only New York Times reporters but all reporters at large… all in
the name of humor.”
Flustered, the ventriloquist begins to
apologize, when the New York Times reporter pipes up, “You stay out of
this mister, I’m talking to that little f%@#*er on your knee!”
And
A New York Times reporter enters a bar and is soon joined by another.
They each order a beer clink the mugs and shout SIX FREAKING WEEKS!
A
third soon arrives. More beer is ordered. The toast is repeated: SIX
FREAKING WEEKS!! Finally a fourth and fifth arrive they get a table. The
order pitchers. They toast continually shouting SIX FREAKING WEEKS!!
Finally the bartender comes over and says “You people seem to be celebrating something. Do you mind if I ask what it is?”
The
lead New York Times reporter says “Not at all buddy. You know how
people are always saying that New York Times reporters are dumb as
bricks? Well, me and my friends got one of those jigsaw puzzles that
said four to six years and we finished it in SIX FREAKING WEEKS!!!”
New York Times Reporters New Blondes
Thank You, Daily Times
Thank you to Phil Heron and The Delaware County Daily Times for running my Road from Serfdom column, actually an improved version, from a few days ago.
It can be found at: http://delcotimes.com/articles/2013/03/16/opinion/doc5143c4d72a61f888291617.txt?viewmode=fullstory
The version that appeared in print:
Feudal serfs gave the fruits of their labor and all of their freedom to a small group who lived very well.
Some want 21st Century America to be like that.
Tax money is providing public employees multi-million tax-funded salaries. Really. Former UConn coach Jim Calhoun was making $5 million before retired and information on the web shows at least three unnamed others int that state making at least $3 million on the backs of its citizens as of 2010. In Pennsylvania, there were about 5,000 state workers making six-figure salaries in 2011 according the Pottstown Mercury. Note, that does not include benefits and that would not include employees of school districts such as principals and administrators and the administrator’s various assistants.
In feudalism, the serfs were told they got protection for their contributions to the lifestyles of the then rich and famous. Similar promises are being made today.
Give up your guns and we will keep you safe, the new feudalists claim. Sure, as in Mexico where a gun battle on Sunday in Reynosa just across the border from McAllen, Texas reportedly left dozens of gangsters — a few innocent bystanders — dead. Mexico has very strict gun control, of course.
Give up your doctor and we will keep you healthy, they claim. Just as in Great Britain where that nation’s press has been reporting that its National Health Service is responsible for 40,000 preventable deaths a year.
Expect to be soon told that you can trust the doctor that you are assigned because there is no such thing as a bad doctor. It’s what they’ve been telling us about teachers after all to keep us from worrying our little heads about crazy ideas like school choice and cyber-charter schools.
We have to stop listening to these people.
We don’t need those who travel in luxury SUVs, and chartered jets, as Leonardo DiCaprio did to catch different New Year’s Day fireworks shows in Australia and Los Angeles, and live in 20-room mansions with $30,000 utility bills as per Al Gore to “protect” us from global warming.
We don’t need defenders of quotas and affirmative action to defend us from racism. Government is the cause of racism. It’s a way of dividing and conquering. Rosa Parks was not protesting the policy of a private bus company but a city law. Out of one side of its mouth, feudalists tells some they need them to give them things to rectify “injustice” while out of the other it tells some they need it to build more prisons and put more people in them so they can keep their streets safe.
Feudalists want those who would otherwise be united against them at each others’ throats.
So what is the road away from serfdom?
— Start with demanding massive cuts in legislative salaries. Why should the chairman of Pennsylvania’s House Appropriations Committee make $90,000 not including benefits? In fact, let’s max all governmental compensation packages — including those at state universities — to $99,000. Yes, that would include benefits.
Replace most pensions with 401K type plans and for those where pensions make sense, such as police, limit them to the starting salary of the job description. Why should the taxpayer be on the hook for a pension that is two or three times that of Social Security? It should be noted that the starting salary for just about all state job descriptions is significantly higher than what those on Social Security get, and it is kind of nice to able to retire at 45.
If an institution wants to pay its people more than $99,000 — that’s you Penn State — don’t give them any tax subsidy.
— Fight all gun control aimed at sane people who are not actively under a criminal sentence.
— Recognize that the power to choose (and fire) one’s health care provider is paramount in health care and fight to end Obamacare.
— Recognize that the power to choose (and fire) one’s child’s teacher is paramount in education. Demand that the money that now goes to public schools be given directly to parents in the form of vouchers.
— End automatic payroll deductions for union dues for all workers, government and private. Give the power of the purse to the union rank and file to reign in the lifestyles of labor leaders.
— Let employers hire who they want to hire. So what if some are sexist/racist/homophobic. Most aren’t. It will soon be evident to those now unaware that it is bad business to reject people for stupid, arbitrary reasons. It will also become evident that being a “protected category” was not beneficial for getting a job or being promoted as those now “protected” start finding themselves with better prospects. Ask this: why would anybody want to hire someone who they have to jump through hoops to get rid of?
And remember these are just starting points.