Depending on how many of sonoranalliance.com's readers are repeat visitors each day, there may now be more people reading that local conservative blog than are reading the Arizona Republic's editorial pages.
Traditional media outlets are dying and savvy conservative politicians have taken to ignoring them — or hastening their demise. Instead of subjecting themselves to heavy-handed interviews and biased coverage, Republicans are finding other ways to reach the public with their campaign messages. It's an approach the McCain-Palin ticket may have adopted too late. McCain's campaign manager Rick Davis asked, "Why would we want to throw Sarah Palin into a cycle of piranhas called the news media that have nothing better to ask questions about than her personal life and her children?"
In McCain's Arizona, Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio recently took the right's campaign against the MSM to a new level by running an anti-media television ad. In the ad, which touts his record as Sheriff, Arpaio instructs voters to throw the local newspapers away. "You can never believe everything you read," Arpaio says, holding up copies of the Arizona Republic and the East Valley Tribune. "So when these are delivered to your house, they belong in the trash." He then throws the papers into a garbage bin. This year, knowing full well in advance the Arizona Republic was not going to endorse either of them for reelection given the paper's constant negative coverage of them, Arpaio and Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas told the paper "no thank you" to an interview.
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“There is more truth on the label of a can of tomatoes than in your average newspaper.” — comment by Ben Hecht, an early 20th Century reporter for the Chicago Tribune, in his biography Gaily, Gaily, made long before the Truth in Labeling Act.
tragic. as a journalist, i mourn the corruption of my craft. i have to say, though, finally McCain has caught on to the viral marketing and grassroots Internet presence that catalyzed this generation's interest in the liberal illuminati.
It's been a couple of years since I read an article [on the internet] that this was happening to print media. According to the article, at that time they had been relying mainly on the numerous small want-ads for their revenue, but craigslist.com was already starting to take that away. I don't know how much an ad is in craigslist, but in 1997, I paid $70 for a one-week two-line ad in the LA Times, and I thought it was kinda high.
Makes me wonder who is still reading the liberal rags. I know I read them to keep track of the left and, maybe, I am not alone. I give extra attention to editorial pages, knowing that's where the most rabid liberals hang out. Wouldn't that be something if every conservative in the country decided to stop reading them the same week as a brief experiment. Just how far might their readership fall?
Thomas Jefferson once said, "The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers." The media was screwed up back then. It'll probably always be screwed up as long as emotions play a role in what and how the news is delivered. You've just got to be smarter than to believe all the crap those people vomit every day. We need robotic journalists, I think. Monotone news.