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Posted: Thu Mar 12, 2009 2:17 pm Post subject: Dying Newspapers Dying Nation: Repent or Perish!
Dying Newspapers Dying Nation: Repent or Perish!
by William Gheen
www.alipac.us
President, Americans for Legal Immigration PAC (ALIPAC)
March 13, 2009
From the New York Times to the Raleigh News and Observer, there are For Sale signs hanging on the doors of prominent newspapers across America with only a few buyers at hand.
While this must be very stressful for newspaper employees, editors and reporters alike, a large consensus of American citizens are waving and saying "goodbye and good riddance!".
Public trust for the contents of the American print media has reached all time lows. Most Americans who still read these papers have become adept at discerning the truth of what is happening by what is either distorted by the papers or what facts and perspectives are completely missing from articles like large elephants in the room.
Reading between the lines is what news consumers have been forced to do, as the ethics of journalism have been abandoned and many major print media institutions have become more concerned with attempts to politically indoctrinate their readers to fairly unsupported views, instead of telling readers what is really going on in our nation.
You can trust my word on this, because I am a man who is lucky to even be quoted before at all in publications like the LA Times, New York Times, Boston Globe, Washington Times, Washington Post, USA Today, and Chicago Tribune.
While the Washington Times stands alone, with their fair treatment of my positions in favor of more border security and immigration enforcement, almost every one of these other publications have abused me, my positions, and the truth!
If you do see a quote from me, the chances are higher than 50% that I've been intentionally misquoted by a reporter working for a newspaper that favors amnesty for illegal aliens. If you are lucky enough to even have an opportunity to hear my view, which is representative of the vast majority of Americans on immigration issues, you can usually find my quote just past the half way mark in any article, which has been determined to be the part of the article people are least likely to read or remember.
My opposition, those who favor amnesty for illegal aliens and open borders, will usually be found in the first and last of the article, which are the prime locations for quotes. I am lucky if the article quotes less than five opposition sources compared to my single doctored comment.
These are the least of the offenses offered by many of these publications, which now flagrantly try to portray me or any American who speaks out against illegal immigration as using some kind of "code words of hate", which mere exposure to these mythical codes could cause the American peasant class to lash out and harm blacks and Hispanics. While these outlandish attacks on free speech are ridiculous, they have traction in the land of unicorns and fairies in the newsrooms, where creative writers manufacture synthetic realities like a movie script.
These newspaper writers are taking their extreme left marching orders from low credibility political groups like the Anti Defamation League (ADL) and the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC). Both of these groups have exchanged their prior credibility fighting racist groups, by overtly lying and defaming any American who speaks out against Amnesty or illegal immigration. They have labeled legal immigrants, blacks, Hispanics, and white Americans working together for border security 'nativist extremists' or the new KKK! Their lies and distortions have become so overt that many of us now call them the Defamation League and the Southern Poverty Lie Center.
In effect, these highly biased newspapers and the SPLC and ADL are engaging in rampant anti-immigrant behavior by equating legal immigrants with illegal aliens. My legal immigrant supporters are highly offended by this. Can you imagine the outcry, if a newspaper constantly compared tax cheats to law abiding tax payers or rapists to married couples trying to conceive a child?
These papers and these defamation groups are also engaging in racist behavior by attacking multi-racial groups that support immigration enforcement and falsely labeling them as hate groups! For political expedience, the papers and crew are equating illegal aliens with all Hispanics, even though half of the Hispanics in America are here legally. Can you imagine the outcry, if a newspaper compared drug dealers to black people or shop lifters to Hispanics? Only with the crime of illegally entering the US can we find the racist comparison between crimminal actions and a particular ethnic group.
The bottom line here is that the newspapers are massively abusing the ethics of journalism and their important role in the health of the American Republic for which our flag stands.
Gone are the days of true investigative journalism, as any ramped up news story has, to pass through intensive Political Correctness filters creating a world where every child in America has heard of the Duke Lacrosse Team, but not even one newspaper in North Carolina will mention the more than four documented and horrific gang rapes of innocent Americans by illegal aliens in the last few years.
The real gang rapes are suppressed and censored information because it might alarm the natives and the public might seek political change towards more immigration enforcement and border security. The Duke Lacrosse fiction novel was big news because it fits the story cliche that white people, especially wealthy white people are the cause of all of society's ills. Racial equality concerns have given way to racist one way streets in the modern print media. Of course, the Duke Lacrosse fiction story had to go out of the limelight immediately once the abused college students were exonerated.
The real problem with the newspapers goes far deeper than racial issues or even top political issues like illegal immigration.
The real problem with the American print media is with the truth. Many of them have sacrificed the truth at the altar of politics and engaged in unethical behavior to conceal the truth, while propagating lies. The results are manifest in our nation, and the results are a key reason America is in so much trouble and experiencing so much hardship today.
The same lack of integrity, the same lack of principles, the same disconnect from the American public, and the same greed and political corruption that infects Washington, DC is pandemic in the newsrooms and offices of the editors.
The newspapers have been lying to their readers by crafting political propaganda so thick that there should be a "paid for by" disclaimer beneath the articles as campaigns for public office are required to provide. I wonder if the Federal Elections Commission could handle the extra work load of regulating these paid political writers at the papers?
There's lots of talk in Washington, DC of regulating free speech on talk radio shows and the Internet. Could it be any more overt that corrupt politicians in DC are trying to protect their corrupt political advertisers in the print media? If we needed any regulation of free paid political speech in America, which I do not approve of, it should start with the newspapers.
Vox populi vox Dei
After all, Internet news, blogs, and talk radio shows have rapidly growing and loyal audiences. This is because Americans are getting more accurate information via these mediums and if there is a political slant to the coverage at least it is overt and not masquerading as fair and balanced, as the newspapers claim.
I would bet you my left kidney that four out of five of these politically biased lying newspapers would all support a clamp down on talk radio and the Internet. They are elitists and espouse the elitist view that it is their job to determine what is news worthy to Americans, not the other way around.
They are top down operations who believe what they write that will cause life to imitate their art. Most American citizens feel their art should imitate true life instead! Just ask Harrison Ford. His new movie "Crossing Over" is a pro-amnesty for illegal aliens propaganda film that labels our Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers 'Gestapo'. The movie has completely bombed in the reviews and the theaters because of the movie's overt politics. Now, if Harrison Ford's new movie paid tribute to our brave ICE officers who put their lives at risk to apprehend illegal aliens and deport them, it would likely be a smash hit at the box office, instead of Ford's career ending with a whimper.
Many of these newspapers could be saved, rebuild trust, rebuild loyal audiences and loyal advertisers by firing large volumes of their staff members with liberal arts degrees and hiring realists with a more diverse range of political views and a more diverse range of educational backgrounds.
Many of these creative fiction writers at the papers need a new job, preferably one where they have to compete with illegal aliens and at illegal alien wage levels.
It is time to swim or drown, shake the tree and let the loose nuts and fruits fall to the ground! You need writers and employees who write for the American public, instead of global corporations and unpopular social engineering political views! Take two doses of populism and call me in five years!
These newspaper owners should go through the editorial staff and news rooms and fire every person who has ever written the phrase "undocumented immigrants", "jobs Americans won't do", "Comprehensive Immigration Reform". "Anna Nicole Smith", "Lindsay Lohan", or "Paris Hilton" in a news or opinion article!
Furthermore, don't just fire these fiction writers, dress them in clothing adorned with American flags and drop them off deep in a neighborhood in America controlled by MS-13 or SUR-13, or drop them off in Nuevo Laredo or Juarez, Mexico in their American attire. If they survive, they may come out of the experience with a hefty dose of reality from the tough streets of reality!
These papers can find plenty of new workers down in the soup kitchens at the churches or in the car lots and tent cities, where innocent American families have been cast. Grab some people who can write truthful articles from the perspective of average American citizens who are concerned and suffering and give them a week to write something readers like and appreciate.
The true political battle in America now is between the truth and the lies. This is a battle between right and wrong, good and evil, principles vs. corruption!
If civil engineers designed politically correct bridges they would collapse and when doctors lie, people die.
Only the truth and God, manifest in American citizens, can save America now as the atrophy of America's Judeo Christian values and principles has brought our nation to the verge of collapse and ruin. The Ten Commandments would serve these papers well, you know the parts about not lying about your neighbors and not placing other idols before God. From my intensive experiences with the newsrooms of America, I can tell you that my brief mention of God here will result in some discomfort among many in the newsrooms, and hopefully no explosive vulgarity or backwards Latin. Mentioning God in a classroom or newsroom could easily result into an inquiry these days.
These newspapers can be saved by hiring writers who have shared values with the American public, instead of elitists values shared by only a small percentage of the public. And by shared values, I do not mean the recent multiculturalist, Globalist, and radicalism we face today in America. I mean the shared values that have been prominent and dominant in America for the last 200 years!
We get enough political fiction out of Hollywood and the corporate TV commercial industry today, so let's start by returning the truth, in preference to fiction in our newspapers and some may be able to survive.
For those who fail to heed this advice, let those newspapers disappear from our land. I've been warning them for several years now that the New York Times, the Raleigh News and Observer, and others are like dinosaurs breathing their last gasps of comet dust. America would be better off without many of these destructive giants that fail to see they are no longer the top of the information food chain.
It is time to adapt or fail and adapting means newspapers need to become more like talk radio and more connected to and representative of the people of America like Rush Limbaugh, Lou Dobbs, and Glenn Beck and others in talk radio, Internet news, and on TV who represent Americans better than newspapers or lifetime politicians in Washington, DC.
Abandon the corrupt and dishonorable methods and practices that have fostered the recent failures in America, and return to the principles and values that once made America the most free, opulent, and successful society in human history. Adapt or fail, improve or perish, this is the challenge for all of America. _________________ Vox populi vox Dei
Ad majorem Dei gloriam
Posted: Thu Mar 12, 2009 2:38 pm Post subject: Terrific
As they should go belly up. Few Americans are interested in their sick and twisted global views that are at the expense of the American people and the sovereignty of this once great nation. Scru papers that are anti american.
Joined: Aug 04, 2007 Posts: 1658 Location: north carolina
Posted: Thu Mar 12, 2009 2:46 pm Post subject:
They can disappear along with the BAD BANKS! Great piece W.
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Which reminds me W. I did not get my new code book for the new year. Could you please send me one. I need to ask Lou Dobbs and Beck for theirs also
Never did hear of any apologies from certain people on that case after found to be a big hoax
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Duke LaCross fiction novel was big news because it fits the story cliche that white people, especially wealthy white people are the cause of all of societies ills
_________________ "When you have knowledge,you have a responsibility to do better"_ Paula Johnson
"I did then what I knew to do. When I knew better,I did better"_ Maya Angelou
Joined: May 13, 2006 Posts: 1411 Location: Nebraska
Posted: Thu Mar 12, 2009 3:46 pm Post subject:
If you read the comments after political articles, especially immigration related ones, the vast majority of posters will disagree with the newspapers slanted opinion propaganda. That is if the newspapers allow people to comment.
Joined: Jan 27, 2006 Posts: 989 Location: Peekskill, New York
Posted: Fri Mar 13, 2009 10:57 am Post subject:
Newspapers are dying because they have not changed with the times. First, you can get more news online, quicker and faster...more importantly, it is ALL THE SAME NEWS. Go buy any three-five big print paper and give them a close examination. For that matter, go to the internet and do the same examination for free. Everything is teh same, same stories, same tired news. I can read the Miami Herald and the Washinton Post and read the same articles.
Local papers are failing because they are not reporting much on the local and regional news. In fact, I think it is one of the reasons why the illegal alien issue has gotten so out of hand. Where is the hard hitting investigative reporter that spent three weeks going to, eating in say 12 McDonald's to gather enough information to write a story on their hiring of illegal aliens on a local level, pointing out in the story that the jobs traditionally reserved for our young people just getting started in their careers are now held by Illegal Aliens. Have you been to a McDonald's or a Dunkin Donuts lately? Ours here in Peekskill New York are like being in the Mexican Consulate, but where is ICE with a work place enforcement raid, and where is the local newspaper?
I think one goes along with the other...if the local newspaper is doing their job, doing INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM, a lot of times that is going to get the government to do its job. Problem is, the local papers for the most part lost their way, and with them losing their way, we as citizens lost one of those important checks and balances that kept us safe, kept local, state and federal government on its toes. Who wants the buy the local Newspaper when the only thing local about it is the advertising they are selling...it is easier and cheaper to go online. _________________ Keep the spirit of a child alive in your heart, and you can still spy the shadow of a unicorn when walking through the woods.
The print media can reap what they've sown. Remember the quote by Trilat founder David Rockefeller??
'We are grateful to The Washington Post, The New York Times, Time Magazine, and other great publications whose directors have attended our meetings and respected their promises of discretion for almost forty years. It would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the world if we had been subject to the lights of publicity during those years. But, the world is now more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a world government. The supranational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national auto-determination [read as 'democracy'] practiced in past centuries."
--June 5, 1991, Bilderberger meeting in Baden Baden, Germany (a meeting also attended by then-Governor Bill Clinton)www.mega.nu/ampp/bilderberg.html. [Main source: Dr. Dennis Cuddy, A Chronological History of the New World Order _________________ "Never suppose that in any possible situation, or under any circumstances, it is best for you to do a dishonorable thing..." --Thomas Jefferson
Posted: Fri Mar 13, 2009 11:27 am Post subject: Death of the Print Media
Your letter is spot on. I have recently quit my local rag (The Daytona Beach News Journal) for just what you are saying. Their heading indicates they are the "Independent Voice of Folusia County", HA!! They are really the voice of the Democratic Party and the lefties of FLorida.
We keep hearing that they are slowly going defunct the way of the other newspapers. Couldn't happen to more nicer folks!!! Couldn't happen soon enough. We only used the paper for weed control in our garden!! Or, to line the botto of the bird/pet house!!! All it was worth.
Posted: Fri Mar 13, 2009 11:42 am Post subject: WOW on the article on newspapers
Terrific article William.
I quit reading newspapers when I was about 35 ( I am now almost 68 ) because they were so depressing and life is depressing enough without reading horror stories and I became a much happier person and still managed to be well informed. And about half of the pages had advertisements. So, the advertisers paid the newspaper and the public paid the newspaper in order to read biased news articles.
The papers even then were liberal slanted regarding politics, full of "sound bites" - quotes taken out of context of what a pol. actually said in total. Gee, just like the recent political campaigns !
Posted: Fri Mar 13, 2009 12:02 pm Post subject: FASTEST WAY TO SOLVE ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION: OUST THE IMPOSTER
Since the goal of ALIPAC is to limit legal immigration while stopping illegal immigration, while the goal of the illegal Obama/Soetoro administration is exactly the opposite, then I would suggest that the fastest way to achieve ALIPAC's goals is to OUST THE IMPOSTER.
There are at least 6 PROVEN reasons why Obama/Soetoro (the dual name is one of them) is Constitutionally ineligible and unqualified for POTUS, but I suggest that we all start by highlighting and demanding the answer to the main one that everyone can grasp immediately:
Wow! I really stirred up a hornets nest with this one. You should read some of the emails I'm receiving from the media calling me 'ignorant' and 'stupid'.
W _________________ Vox populi vox Dei
Ad majorem Dei gloriam
Joined: Jan 27, 2006 Posts: 989 Location: Peekskill, New York
Posted: Fri Mar 13, 2009 1:39 pm Post subject:
Face it, the Pro Illegal Alien, give them AMNESTY Liberal Media does not want to have their own bias and prejudice shoved in its face. The face that 12. 5 Million Legal Main Street Americans are out of work, having trouble feeding their children while SEVEN MILLION ILLEGAL ALIENS REMAIN IN OUR WORK FORCE is beside the point.
Meanwhile, we have Rep Luis Guiterrez violating the public trust and every one is fine with that? _________________ Keep the spirit of a child alive in your heart, and you can still spy the shadow of a unicorn when walking through the woods.
Posted: Fri Mar 13, 2009 2:00 pm Post subject: Biggest One World Order Threat is Informed Public
Could it be that the implication here is that "Fair and Balanced" does not mean anything close! We are like minded souls for the most part here and to us it is obvious the slant. The Daytona News Journal has been sending people to the polls with their liberal selections for years. The mindful get it and the mindless take the paper and vote for whomever the paper recomends. Herein lies the problem.
Florida has about a 50%+ high school drop out rate. Of those who actually vote, we can assume most will be carting the paper into the voting booth.
My job places me into many different classrooms. There is more emphasis on diversity than our American Heratige,Government or Civic Responsibility . Americanism has been displaced. American culture is being displaced. Observe, our country is being systematicly de-nationalized in preparation for 1ST- North American Union 2ND- ONE WORLD ORDER. Our fate is surely in our hands. Closing down the press,free speech rights under attack for a variety of shallow reasons and disarming the country of weapons to fight tyrany are primary signs of closing a society down. We are treading closer and closer to an abyss if our present and future generations don't wipe the apathy from their eyes. Schools must teach pride of country the way they once did. The editorial page is the place for opinions. The "news" should not be a matter of opinions but objective reporting which used to be the benchmark of Schools of Journalism. The difficulty we are having separating truth from fiction in reporting creates confusion...another globalist tool for de-nationalization.
One thing is certain....a thoughtful,educated and informed public is the biggest threat to eventual One World Government. A populice who is taught the duties and responsibilities of being a citizen of their respective country will be a much more difficult target for the globalists to hit. The failing education system with its inherant lack of civic teaching makes us all vulnerable to global infiltration. Keeping us focused on meanial Britany Spears type topics draws our attention away form the freedoms we see slipping away.
The big picture is really big and really a threat to our freedom. ALL citizens must decide if they are going to get involved as activists against many fronts including illegal immigration and the destabilization inherant with forced excessive foreign population growth by the government. Spreading the word,calling Congress,faxing Congress on a routein basis will really get the ball rolling. But a much higher percentage of our citizens must get involved. If the US is to survive we as a people must demand to know the difference between what is truth and what is fiction. If newspapers are replaced with investigative bloggers who consistantly tell us truth...let the papers go...but the average Joe must be able to discern the truth from the special interest fodder. Reputation,integrity,scrutiny and transparency should be treated as gold. The tipping point is nearing. One thing I know, Information and Knowledge is the biggest enemy of the elite who seek ultimatly One World Order.
Posted: Fri Mar 13, 2009 2:08 pm Post subject: Dying newspapers
As the editor of a weekly newspaper I can understand your views, but all the things you claim are wrong with newspapers does not hold true. The Politically Correct people do make your job hard to perform. In our police reports we list descriptions of suspects including their race. That has caused a lot of readers to go ballistic, but I won't back down. If it's a fact, nothing in the world will stop me from printing it. The big problem facing newspapers is that for more than 30 years certain politicians have tried to discredit newspapers whenever they report the truth. These politicians can't stand when you print the truth, so they lie and cry "foul" and claim the paper is liberal, etc. The problem is that now everyone uses the term "liberal media" as a blanket statement. When you hear someone use this term it's because they don't want to hear both sides of the story, just the side of the story they agree with. Firing all the reporters won't solve the problem. The public has lost its ability to use sound reasoning when digesting the news. If they don't read or hear what they want, they let their emotions take control. The same politicians who don't want you to know the truth lie to reporters all the time, refuse to cooperate and won't provide information requested. So we are forced to fight for the information, sometimes filing a lawsuit to get it. Guess what? We can't afford to sue every time we need access to information. As a result, we can't do our jobs properly. Politicians want to control all the information at all costs. No one associated with our newspaper chain sets out to distort information. Try walking in our shoes for a month and you would change your mind about what is wrong with newspapers real fast. We have fought to defend and preserve your rights but those in power want to take those rights away... and they are winning. FOX News claims to be fair and balanced, yet several independent study groups comprised of equal parts liberals and conservatives have come to the same conclusions, that FOX slants 65 to 70 percent of its news coverage to the far right by distorting the facts. Their true slogan should be, "We Distort, We Decide." You can't get your local news off the Internet. Everything starts at the local level in your own community. Local governments have followed in the foot steps of the big boys by withholding info and making it impossible for us to do our jobs unless a story is going to make them sound good. The same people who cry and complain about "this and that" refuse to come before city council to make their voice heard. The want us to do their dirty work, then sit back and complain when we can't get to the truth because no one will cooperate. Newspapers play a vital role in our society. If all papers die, and no one is around trying to hold people accountable for their actions by revealing misdeeds, etc., then do you really think you will be better off in the long run? Not all reporters are created equal, that is true. News organizations need to fire the ones who stink. I've have fired three myself and won't hesitate to fire again if someone doesn't report both sides of a story like they are supposed to.
Posted: Sat Mar 14, 2009 2:19 am Post subject: Great article
Your article sums up the precise reason why I quit subscribing to newspapers years ago. They always favor illegal immigration. They always demonize as "haters" anybody who thinks we should enforce immigration law. It is especially funny when it's the ADL that's doing the demonizing, because they are staunchly pro-Zionist and think it's perfectly okay for Israel to enforce its Jews only immigration policy.
Wow! I really stirred up a hornets nest with this one. You should read some of the emails I'm receiving from the media calling me 'ignorant' and 'stupid'.
W
Could you post some of those emails? They should be entertaining.
Joined: Sep 21, 2005 Posts: 151 Location: Chapel Hill North Carolina
Posted: Sat Mar 14, 2009 12:24 pm Post subject:
I think it's interesting that the N&O has never published any of my letters to the editor since I have an opposing view when it comes to illegal immigration yet the majority of comments online about their "pro illegal" stories are more inline with what I and the majority feel. You'd think they'd get a clue that people aren't buying their lies and misinformation as well as their grouping of all immigrants, legal and illegal. I don't like the fact that anyone is loosing their job BUT if you can't tell the truth, and people aren't buying your lies then it's time for you to find a new job.
I also would like to say that the Durham The Herald-Sun seems to be doing well and at least they would print my letters and in the past what articles I have seen written when it comes to immigration have been "fair and balanced". You'd think the N&O would get a clue.
Great article William. Too bad the N&O won't print it...yeah like they would.
Here's some of the 'Hate Mail' I have received from a few reporters and editors on our national press list of over 35,000 contacts.
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You sir, need medication.
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Mr. Gheen,
As a member of the media I read your piece with interest and found that I
agree with much of it -- but I am writing with a food-for-thought kind of
question -- I own and publish my own business publication because more than
30 years ago I felt this kind of biased attitude in the news rooms and I
never felt comfortable as a reporter among my peers -- because of my
differing views, but also I was young and still trying to figure out what
was going on ... I didn't find many mentors to help in that task. But the
thing I have found most irritating and to which I can find no answers -- is
why do conservatives, to such a large degree, leave this field open to the
left? Why don't conservatives support conservative publications? Why aren't
they making movies and other art that could compete? We have struggled for
27 years to survive in a market that could easily support us much better --
but conservative business owners-- people who will meet me on the street on
any day and complain about the liberal daily --do not advertise to support
us. I'm not talking about a lot -- just a little bit of advertising and
buying a subscription would go a long way. I have listened closely and have
heard what I believe are some of the answers, such as bankers who don't
advertise because we are not "politically correct" in our positions (not
that we are extreme by any means -- in fact I believe while we have a free
market-bent, we have just as much information that supports the status quo,
if not the extreme left). But they fear losing business by appearing to
support non-liberal publications...
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Lucky for Americans and local communities, there are still some community
newspapers like ours that believe in non-political, unbiased news reporting
based on the truth.
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Regarding Dying Newspapers Dying Nation: Repent or Perish.
You give the impression that the New York Times and Raleigh News and
Observer are up for sale. I don't believe those individual papers are up
for sale, but maybe some of their subsidiaries are ( such as the Boston
Globe and other McClatchy papers).
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Please remove me from your mailing list. Do not forward correspondence of
any kind to me again. thank you.
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I have already replied to this. If this kind of screed is reflective of
the ill-informed, out-of-context ignorant submissions from your group,
please remove us from your distribution.
Thank you,
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William,
Boy, I'd love to run this on the front page tommorow, but it's just a tad
too long.
Thanks for the effort, though.
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V****V you. I work for newspapers and you're V*******V wrong, asswipe.
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I received the following e-mail today. Good information.
Dear Publisher:
Anyone who thinks that newspapers have an “audience problem” need only
look
at recent Nielsen Online numbers for the newspaper industry. In
January,
nearly 75 million unique visitors used newspaper Web sites – an all-time
high and a 12 percent increase from January ’07. That means 44
percent of
all active Internet users visited a newspaper site in January.
Newspapers,
in aggregate, delivered 80 percent more unique visitors than CNN’s
digital
network, 85 percent more than Yahoo! News and 442 percent more than
Google
News!
In print, newspaper readership declined a modest 2.7 percent from 2007
to
2008, according to Scarborough Research. Meanwhile, our friends at the
broadcast TV networks lost 7 percent of their total audience in the
last 3
months of 2008 alone. More than 100 million adults read the newspaper
on an
average weekday, compared to 63 million that watched the World Series,
42
million that visited Amazon.com in the past month and 60 million that
watch
any reality TV show. And those elusive 18 – 34 year olds – 30 percent
are
still reading on an average weekday and nearly 60 percent over the
course of
a week.
Hardly an indication of an industry in the throes of death. On the
contrary, our audience – the true measurement of the health of a
medium – is
strong and getting stronger.
Thanks for Reading.
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Please do not send me any more of your crap please
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Not exactly speaking to the choir here.
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Our small town weekly newspaper is for sale. How about you come buy us
out and then you can test out your own theory. Our newspaper
frequently publishes Godly inspirational articles on our FRONT page
and every week we publish a page of inspirational news and articles.
We have owned and published it for 18 years. And I can tell you for a
fact, the more good, positive and journalistic ethical news that is
published the more subscribers we lose. People WANT to read hate and
discontent. Don't blame the newspapers, put the blame where it belongs
- the readers.
Readers won't consistently buy or subscribe to a newspaper that
publishes good news.
I realize my little tiny weekly newspaper isn't large enough for you
to consider as part of the media, but you got my two cents worth anyway.
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What did you hope to achieve by sending this to me? I am a reporter at a
daily newspaper.
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You can probably take this newspaper off your mailing list.
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Really? Why would you send this to me? I am a journalist who has worked
more than 20 years. I can assure you the things you say about the
profession in no way describe me or my peers. Please take me off your
email list. And try to remember there are real people with real lives
facing real hardships represented by the group you so casually dismiss.
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We have requested an unsubscribe to your emails. They are ignorant and
insulting.
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Please don't ever send your drivel to me again.
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I don't favor amnesty for illegal aliens and agree with many of your
positions, but don't appreciate being told that newspapers are dying because
we slant the news. We don't do that at this newspaper.
Please kindly remove me from your mailing list.
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Hello William.
That is a great story, thank you for sending it.
Don't forget NewsBlaze, we are with you!
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You don't think the trend to getting news by the Internet has anything
to do with the decline of print? Or perhaps the economy's effect on
advertising sales?
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It's all about YOU ... always.
Remove me from your rambling rants - and I caution you to make general
judgments on my industry or any other.
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Nonsense!
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Get a Life!
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Please remove me from your subscriber list. This is a crock.
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My question is, with a missive like this, what do you know about ethics?
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Thanks for the slap in the face.
I hope you aren't asking me to publish this in my newspapers.
I found it very interesting. Stupid, but interesting.
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Excellently written and keep the undaunted tenacity going with respect to the lefties in the press. The more we comment on the absurdity of even having to worry about illegal aliens the more we galvanize our stance.
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You are ignorant and uninformed! You have no place even questioning the skills and motivations of our news staff. We need a comprehensive solution for immigration and we do not need your voice of hatred in our publication. Leave the news to the professionals farm boy. Just who in the hell do you think you are Mr. Gheen?
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Joined: Sep 21, 2005 Posts: 151 Location: Chapel Hill North Carolina
Posted: Sat Mar 14, 2009 11:37 pm Post subject:
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We need a comprehensive solution for immigration and we do not need your voice of hatred in our publication.
Sounds like you hit a nerve with some of them which means you did a good job. The truth hurts doesn't it. Was this one from the N&O? So we need a comprehensive solution huh? That's just code for more open borders and amnesty. And as far as a "voice of hatred" didn't they just out themselves as doing just what you said they were doing? Guess you should leave it up to the "professionals" Mr. Gheen. The professional media prostitutes who have sold themselves to the pro-illegal groups and big businesses and peddle their biased bs.
Well, I must have done something right because at the time of this post this piece has been read 5,522 on our homepage.
And it appears on over 287 websites according to Google.
The rating feature on ALIPAC articles which allows people to rate material 1-5 currently shows a rating of 4.97 with 69 people voting so far.
I'm just so sick of so many of these newspapers either completely dropping the ball or down right abusing Americans that speak out against illegal immigration.
I feel better having let it all out.
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Joined: May 22, 2006 Posts: 28474 Location: Mexifornia
Posted: Sun Mar 15, 2009 12:19 am Post subject:
Wow, now it shows 5,531 read on the homepage.
Some real unprofessional comments above, some of which have lowered themselves to name calling. That's often done when one has no reasonable argument as we have seen plenty of times.
We see the spin in our newspapers also but then this is Mexifornia. Recently, as many of your know, many of us attended John & Ken's tax revolt in Fullerton. The LA Times didn't print a word and there were around 15,000 people there. Not big news I guess. But if that group had been a pro-illegal rally I'd bet they would have written one of their long columns about it.
We are suppose to follow the laws and we just want our laws enforced too. Why doesn't the media support that? Hmmmm.....Must be money, that's usually the explanation.
Just maybe if we felt the newspapers had the average everyday citizen more in mind than their special interest groups (or whatever their agendas are) their readership wouldn't be tanking. _________________ Why aren't our immigration laws enforced?
Joined: Jun 05, 2006 Posts: 5823 Location: On the border
Posted: Sun Mar 15, 2009 2:12 am Post subject:
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You are ignorant and uninformed! You have no place even questioning the skills and motivations of our news staff. We need a comprehensive solution for immigration and we do not need your voice of hatred in our publication. Leave the news to the professionals farm boy. Just who in the hell do you think you are Mr. Gheen?
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Farm boy, I like that! I wonder if whoever the fool is who wrote this has any idea of just how much skill, knowledge and hard work goes into being a farm boy?
Voice of hatered? There we go again, standing up for Americans and America and your the bad guy!
I do think leaving the news up to the professonals is a good idea! Anybody know where we can find some so that William can go back to tending his farm instead of being insulted by foul mouthed egotists.
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But if that group had been a pro-illegal rally I'd bet they would have written one of their long columns about it.
