Philadelphia Inquirer and Daily News now headed up by right-wing attack dog

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(I hope that was an objective headline.)

http://www.philadelphiaweekly.com/view.php?id=12286

― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Thursday, 1 June 2006 17:49 (twenty years ago)

yeah, nobody here cares. i'm all for it!:

I am actually happy about this! (this is about philly newspapers. you probably won't be interested.)

― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 1 June 2006 18:34 (twenty years ago)

cuz my motto is, and always has been: "If you have to yell at rich assholes, make them local rich assholes."

― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 1 June 2006 18:35 (twenty years ago)

Scott, I did search for a thread a couple different ways, but didn't come up with that (and haven't really been reading ILE much, but thought this might be something that people would be intersted in).

― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Thursday, 1 June 2006 19:05 (twenty years ago)

oh, that's fine. i was drunk when i started it, so my title is kinda hard to find. i stand by what i said though. local losers beat faceless conglom suits anyday of the week. i mean, there is at least a slim chance that you could yell at one of these bozos on the street if they start wreaking havoc. not so with goodknight-goodriddance when they owned the thing.

― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 1 June 2006 19:09 (twenty years ago)

one month passes...

The Inquirer is keeping its promise to focus on local news. The TOP STORY today is about a race horse's injury:

'Other' foot now imperils Barbaro
By Mike Jensen, Inquirer Staff Writer

Yesterday, Barbaro's surgeon, Dean Richardson, announced that the medical news for the horse couldn't be much worse. For the first time since the injury, Richardson was forced to use that same word, catastrophic, to describe the horse's problems. . . .

http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/news/front/

― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Friday, 14 July 2006 13:33 (twenty years ago)

nine months pass...

I can't seem to find the old thread I started about a Daily News headline -- "Hill Slap" -- which seemed like a sly way to just up and call Hillary Clinton a bitch on your front page. Anyone who didn't believe me should check out today's issue, which says:

PAYBACK IS A ... [picture of Paris Hilton]

Someone over there is really into this! Extra points for anyone who can find a post-Imus editorial piece complaining about the misogyny in rap lyrics.

― nabisco, Sunday, 6 May 2007 21:44 (nineteen years ago)

Oh shit, this thread is about a whole different Daily News! My bad.

― nabisco, Sunday, 6 May 2007 21:44 (nineteen years ago)

scott, I think you were right. Local coverage has been good--maybe it's improved--since the change in ownership, and circulation has actually gone up.

(How odd that this was just (mistakenly) revived, I didn't notice until I went looking for it to revive it myself.)

― Rockist Scientist, Thursday, 10 May 2007 11:22 (nineteen years ago)

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