The Baltimore Sun, Maryland’s leading newspaper, has a new owner. He’s David Smith, a television executive and lifelong resident of the Baltimore area.
The reaction of the Post and others makes perfect sense if we underastand that to conventional lefties (As opposed to radical leftists), the left wing view is the norm and anything that deviates from that norm is to be considered out of line or troubling. This is just another example of how the establishment left will refer to someone as the "right wing" so and so but never say the "left wing so and so". It's the same thing as noting that a conservative owner will use the paper to advance his agenda but will never note the opposite.
"But in this case, the purchaser is chairman of the Sinclair Broadcast Group, whose nearly 200 local television stations have, in the words of the Washington Post, “shown a marked conservative bent in recent years.”"
Because The Washington Post would never ever under any circumstances consider doing that.
I wonder how Mencken, the ultimate cynic and best known Sun alum, would have made of this. BTW, Mencken authored a very learned , readable and engaging three volume treatise on the American language. Jim Dueholm
The reaction of the Post and others makes perfect sense if we underastand that to conventional lefties (As opposed to radical leftists), the left wing view is the norm and anything that deviates from that norm is to be considered out of line or troubling. This is just another example of how the establishment left will refer to someone as the "right wing" so and so but never say the "left wing so and so". It's the same thing as noting that a conservative owner will use the paper to advance his agenda but will never note the opposite.
"But in this case, the purchaser is chairman of the Sinclair Broadcast Group, whose nearly 200 local television stations have, in the words of the Washington Post, “shown a marked conservative bent in recent years.”"
Because The Washington Post would never ever under any circumstances consider doing that.
I wonder how Mencken, the ultimate cynic and best known Sun alum, would have made of this. BTW, Mencken authored a very learned , readable and engaging three volume treatise on the American language. Jim Dueholm
In reading the comments I noticed I used "how" when I should have used "what." Measure twice, cut once. Jim Dueholm
OOORRR you could do what Corporate Media does and just move on to the next "Crisis".