Actually, Let me tell you a little story about a guy I know:
The guy I'm talking about used to look forward to getting his morning papers. He used to purchase the New York Times and Boston Globe every day and meticulously outlined the stories he would cover, marking them with red and blue ink. While understanding the biases of the MSM, he still believed they did report events as they happened. There was no reason to doubt the truth of America's newspapers. Yes, there may have been some mistakes and omissions, but for the most part they did a decent job.
(For more on his journey see A Lifetime of Lies Since 9/11)
After about a year of increasingly poor MSM coverage and exposure to the blogs, his commentaries became more and more strident. He couldn't believe the scale of lies he was seeing, not just on Iraq and 9/11, but on every single issue (the weather fer cryin' out loud). Such behavior led him to stop purchasing the New York Times. That was part of his New Year's resolution for 2008 and it stuck. The strange part is that he found himself visiting the New York Times website less and less.
He kept purchasing a Boston Globe in the belief that it added a certain perspective and kitsch to his blog, an on-the-ground report on the MSM from his home base; however, their agenda-pushing propaganda -- oddly(?), the New York Times owns the Boston Globe -- just got worse and worse and worse and continues to this day. I guess that's why newspapers are failing: when they can't even please their most faithful purchasers, what hope do they have? They shouldn't tell all those lies.
Anyhow, he decided to scrap purchases of the Boston Globe as his New Years's resolution for 2009. Unfortunately, that resolution did not sick. I think you know who I'm talking about, readers.
Anyhow, I will post a few items today from the massive stockpile of drafts I have saved (and yet am unenthusiastic about posting); however, I do not want to spend too much time refuting their garbage. I will just give you several examples of how atrocious the Globe has become.
Exhibit A: Crashing end for Celtics and Bruins fans
Yeah, that LED the METRO SECTION this morning!!!
I thought they ALREADY HAD a SPORTS PAGE!
Then I find THIS as the BUSINESS FEATURE later in the section:
IRacing.com moves to become MASCAR online
Why the pimp for the fuel-wasting, global-warming auto races, Globe?
"NASCAR coverage was also expanded on the cable channel New England Sports Network, which is owned by New England Sports Ventures, the parent company of the Red Sox and Fenway Sports Group. The New York Times Co., which owns The Boston Globe, holds a 17 percent stake in New England Sports Ventures."
Yeah, TELL ME AGAIN about GLOBAL WARMING and the ENVIRONMENT!!
Also see: And It's One, Two, Three Strikes Your Out at the Old Boston Globe!
Oh, the SELECTIVE COVERAGE and EMPHASIS of the SELF-SERVING Boston Globe become clearer and clearer -- and the disillusionment with that stink-s*** paper becomes greater and greater.
