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Thread ID: 16156 | Posts: 3 | Started: 2005-01-03
2005-01-03 00:19 | User Profile
Todayââ¬â¢s Letter: A Former Chicagoan Remembers The Former Chicago Tribune
Paul Nachman writes from California:
Re: Christmas ââ¬Åwedge issue in the country's culture warsââ¬Âââ¬âChicago Tribune (which hates it!)
The Tribune's metamorphosis is striking for a native (though no longer resident) Chicagoan.
During the 1950s, my dad explained the paper's politics to this grade-schooler by saying the Trib didn't like President Eisenhower "because he's not Republican enough."
During the 1960s, I was sufficiently sentient to notice that the Trib, besides billing itself, below its nameplate, as the "World's Greatest Newspaper" (incidentally, the origin of the call letters of its owned TV station, WGN), ran a photo of the "Flag of the Day.ââ¬Â This was a different American flag, flying somewhere around the Chicago area, every day.
A brief history of the paper backs up my youthful impressions. It says that the Tribune "was noted for the vigor of its anticommunism and attacks on the New Deal, surpassing even the Hearst papers in virulence."
But by the mid-1970s, the paper actually had one liberal editorial writer, whom I lobbied to write an editorial backing full wilderness protection for Minnesota's Boundary Waters Canoe Area.
Given the Tribune's flinty conservative reputation, the published piece created somewhat of a sensation during hearings about the relevant legislation before the House Interior Committee.
In the intervening years, Tribune managers have apparently managed to completely exorcise the ghost of Col. Robert McCormick, the Trib's arch-conservative owner for the second quarter of the 20th Century.
Dave Gorak is right: the once fierce Trib is now as goo-goo over the grievances-industrial complex as the politically-correct rags (LA Times, Newsday) it's bought in recent years.
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2005-01-03 01:24 | User Profile
I'm glad to report that Newsday is in a heap of trouble for falsifying its circulation by encouraging distributors to dump unsold newspapers instead of returning them. A suit was brought against the paper by 3 Long Island businesses who maintain they're being charged inflated advertising rates. The SEC is investigating. You can bet every advertiser known to the paper is demanding make-goods and no paper can sustain itself when it has hemorrhaging ad revenues.
It's been a leftie rag every since I can remember. I look forward to its demise.
2005-01-03 01:40 | User Profile
I haven't read David Duke's, [U]Awakening[/U], but I remember an excerpt that described how the small town newspapers throughout the country were being bought out by Jews, who in collaboration with Jewish merchants, drove gentile owners out of newspaper publishing. Jew-owned businesses would put the screws to a paper by refusing to advertise which in turn would wreak havoc with ad sales and the worth of the paper. Along comes another Jew willing to take it off the gentile's hands for a fraction of its real value. No sooner does the Jew buy it than the advertisers begin to advertise again. That's how once Conservative or Republican local papers became virulent, leftist rags, filtering free speech through the commie prism. Newsapers don't make their money from selling papers, they make it from selling advertising. You fill in the blanks.