What’s wrong with the media
By RHarrison | 15 February 2008 | Blogs | 42 Comments

Across the country, newspapers are losing readers by the bus load. Just this week, both the LA Times: http://www.bizjournals.com/losangeles/s ... a=from_rss and NY Times: http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/02/15/business/nyt.php announced major lay-offs designed to stop their financial loses. The Internet, 24 hour TV news stations, and public indifference to news are often blamed for the loss of readers, but I don’t think that’s the whole story.

Yesterday, the Washington Post: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/co ... 03559.html ran a front-page story with the headline “Obama’s Economic Plan is a Pitch to the Working Poor.â€