The Los Angeles Times is up for sale, and there are super-wealthy conservative bidders. Get out the popcorn out and watch the liberals squeal. The hilarious kickoff came when two leftist collectives – the Daily Kos website and the California-based Courage Campaign Institute – set out to buy an ad in the the L.A. Times… Read more »
Posts Tagged: newspapers
Struggling Newspapers Embrace Paywalls
Because the media are unpopular and no longer trusted, they currently find themselves between a rock and a hard place. With ad revenue plummeting, newspapers are now being forced to try and make up that revenue with paywalls. But paywalls limit media’s ability to impact politics because fewer people are reading. Newspapers, once reluctant to… Read more »
WashPost Endorses Proposed Md. Bag Tax; Bill in Question Exempts Bags Used to Wrap Newspapers
The Washington Post editorial board today endorsed a plastic bag tax being considered in the Maryland General Assembly, insisting that the 5-cent excise tax will reduce plastic bag litter which clogs the state's streams and raise some "$ 7.3 million in revenue, a quarter of which would be retained by retail establishments like grocery stores."… Read more »
WashPost’s Farhi Laments Newspapers Caving in to Pressure, Backing Away from Publishing Gun Owner Lists
In a 19-paragraph story today, Washington Post staff writer Paul Farhi took a look at how various newspapers around the country are backing away from their initial requests for public records of gun owners. "For the third time in as many months, a newspaper has faced an angry backlash, including threats of violence, after it… Read more »