Op-Ed Sections, Threat or Menace?

[Bud_Bundy]

So 250,000 have cancelled their WoPo subscription. I just made it 250,001

 

[DanOregon]

You don't have to endorse Harris to serve your readers.

Editorial: Trump poses risk for Malheur County – Malheur Enterprise

 

[Azrael]

"hard left"

 

[Azrael]

"hard left"

There hasn't been a politically significant "hard left" in this country since the days of the Palmer Raids.

What there has been is the fear of a hard left. Stoked by plutocrats from Carnegie and Morgan to Musk and Thiel since the late 19th century, and amplified by the red, white and blue bedwetters and grifters from Coughlin to Winchell to Limbaugh to Clay Travis, our paranoid style of conservative politics goes on and on.

Our newspapers reflect this.

 

[Songbird]

There hasn't been a politically significant "hard left" in this country

What do you mean?

Hard left as we know it like Bernie Sanders?

 

[Regan MacNeil]

Bernie Sanders isn't even hard left. That's how far the Overton Window has shifted.

 

[FileNotFound]

My European friends are fond of saying that the biggest oxymoron in the English language is "American liberal."

 

[Regan MacNeil]

To Alma, anyone who thinks women and Blacks should vote is hard left.

 

[Azrael]

also

Hugh Hewitt Quits The Washington Post

 

[Azrael]

Unbelievable - if unsurprising - to see the elder marquee OpEd stars 0f legacy Liberal(!) Media(!) - Noonan, Will, MoDo - bothsidesing the coming election.

At least - and at last - the Editorial Board at the NYT has the institutional stones to say what needs saying.

Opinion | Vote to End the Trump Era

 

[Azrael]

This series has been terrific.

https://wapo.st/3YLiEjQ

 

[dixiehack]

Newspaper owners of all stripes and corporate ownership structures have succeeded in turning their platforms into just another consumer good. So don't be surprised when consumers make a calculated decision to stop buying the product.

Imagine Frosted Flakes losing 10 percent of its buyers in a week and somebody whining those people don't value tasty cereal or the hard-working folks on the assembly line in Battle Creek.