The reason the circulation and interest in these liberal rags is declining is because of the management and its decicsions to promote lies and deceit.  The truth does not exist in journalism anymore...the american people are not stupid and can smell the poop through the expensive air fresheners

They're going down swinging, that's for sure. The progressives will never understand how they've undermined themselves with their bias driven reporting and editorializing. It's mesmerizing to watch. It is not "un-American" or otherwise bad to hope that someone gets their due. That's what O'Reilly does. It's not schadenfreude, it's acknowledging bad behavior and feeling satisfied when someone has, how shall we say, a learning experience.

During this horrid economic cycle, when millions of Americans are out
of jobs and terrified about their future employment prospects, rooting
for American businesses to go under seems way out of touch to me,
especially for a commentator who’s constantly talking about sticking up
for regular "folks." It kind of sounds, well, un-American.

Shields supports all businesses? Yeah, right.

“There are no easy answers' but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right.” - Ronald Reagan (1964 Republican Convention)

...many Americans—particularly the young—are permanently changing their reading habits away from newspapers and magazines. Not because of political leanings, mind you, but because the generally free technology of the Web trumps the tradition of carbon-based, physically distributed media every time.

Many young Americans grew up in a culture that prefers video to print. I turned Sesame Street off for my kids twenty years ago when I realized that it was all about five second bursts and short attention span programming. They are among the few of their friends who read anything, including novels, newspapers, etc.

Their contemporaries are hardly motivated by the 'green' aspects of web content. They like U-Tube, and eschew content which they might have to think about. Just to ramble, the public schools hardly promote the written word as they used to.  

Readership is not only down among young people, of course. my wife and I have many friends who obviously do not read a newspaper, because they are incapable of discussing curent events until Jay Leno or David Letterman have told them what to think.

I watch BOR once in awhile. I don't think that he wants the print media to die. He wants them to be independant and analytical. Right now, they are anything but. 

One of the most depraved, virulently anti-America/anti-Israel newspapers is circling the drain:

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http://www.telegraph...

The future of the owner of The Independent newspaper has been in serious doubt after the group failed to reach an agreement with bondholders over a €200m (£178m) bond.
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Couldn't happen to a more deserving gutter-rag, this is the paper that employs the likes of Robert Fisk. If we can get rid of the New York Times and The Guardian as well then the Credit Crunch has almost been worthwhile.

The Left loves to put the worst spin on everything. Now, Americans are 'terrified' about losing their jobs. Terrified? Worried maybe, but not terrified. The Left continues to work towards their goal of the pussification of America.

...same-sex marriage, the murder of unborn children, and whatever other perversion they can possibly come up with in the future, just like these "newspapers do," then you are somehow un-American, and even immoral.

Screw them.

-Dave

Isn't it kind of hard to justify paying out a salerary to "the liberal elite reporters" when their readership only equals that of a small local news-shopper paper that is left in your drive that you don't even pay for in the first place?

 per the MSM;

I am a respectable, right winged extremist, tea bagging, trailer park living, bigoted, racist, gay bashing homophobe, democrat slamming, liberal trashing, ACLU cussing, gun toting, Muslim hating, SUV driving - gas guzzling, hippies use the side door to enter, cigarette smoking by the No Smoking sign, beer drinking, meat eating, resource wasting, free internet porno watching, God fearing Christian, employed full time, tax paying, white trash redneck and single

As usual, the Communist loving press has its rose colored glasses on! Its OK for Smith and Wesson to go out of business and eliminate jobs because we all know that guns kill people! Its OK if auto workers are out of work because SUVs waste gas! Tobacco, popcorn oil, etc.. As long as it is a liberal industry, it must be preserved. For that reason, we must preserve the newspapers and other non productive jobs for the furtherence of the liberal establishment!

"rooting for American businesses to go under" - is that what he's doing?  Nope.  BTW - ever hear of left-wing whipping boy Walmart?

 "...it’s pretty hard to be elite when you’re on unemployment."  Idiotic argument.  The unemployment was the result of the elitist attitude of the MSM, not a symptom of it.

"...was the guy who covered the Mariners ...a lefty communist who deserved to get canned?"  Not the point, Shields. 

I could go on, but the coup de grâce is this: "the network’s (FOX) tremendous success proves that news organizations have missed a huge opportunity to serve this audience for years." Exactly O'Reilly's point! 

This is typical liberal arguing technique:  Misrepresent your opponents view, set up straw men arguments to refute, and then, usually, say something that actually proves your opponent's point!

Oh yeah, don't forget the veiled insults "the thinking of most sensible people." i.e. implying that O'Relilly is not sensible.  This is another mark of liberal rhetoric - the pot calling the kettle black.

What a dufus!

Does everyone here remember their SAT and ACT tests?

Bill O'Reily is to the Newspaper Industry as the MSM was to the War in Iraq.

If BOR wants the liberal newspaper industry to fail, and he is taking "enjoyment" from people losing their jobs in that industry, then what can be said for the MSM from late 2003 through 2008?

They wanted the war in Iraq to fail, and they took great joy in publishing and keeping a running total of all the war dead.

Now I ask, what position is more "Un-American"?

"I've sentenced boys younger then you to the gas chamber.  Didn't want to do it, but I felt I owed it to them."  Judge Smails 

Any company that consistently treats its clients with disrespect (or in some cases, contempt) deserves to fail.  In taking such blatantly partisan positions, some of these news organizations have effectively raised their middle finger to half the population.  What did they expect?

Hardwood new is TERMINAL, let the greenies rejoice! look at all the trees to be saved from harvest in the circulation decline.

Subscription rates of hardwood media is tanking for at least two key reasons that are both realted and independent.

1) A subscription to that which is alternativesly free is an expenditure of discretionary income. FACT. If I have to choose between $4 for a gallon of gas or $4 for a hardwood news, I'll take the recycled dinosaur over the recycled paper everytime.

2) If discretionary expenses was NOT an issue, I would be mindful of where I spnd my money anywasy. I choose not to support businesses that conflict with my lifestyle, and support those that do.

I will go to the sandwich shop owned by a single mother(recent grad to grandmother) who has a great passion for her choice of business, over the national chain that make a competing prodct, though not nerely as tasty. Capelli's of BEAR DE beats SUBWAY everyday.

A key parallel indicator that Mr. Shields misses is in the TV News ratings. Hardwood press that looks and sounds like most of the cable news is failing fast. News sources, like ANY selection on FOX offer far more fact as an issue of a report than conflicting opions on an issue. When discussion on an issue is had, FOX works exceptionally hard to present both sides.

FOX personalities makes no bones about their position on an issue, but that don't steer the discussion or condemn the opponets viewpoint unless, as they often are, tehy are flat out wrong or misrepresenting thier side of the issue. Then they get called on it and next thing you know, ya gotta call engineering to clean up the slobbering mess all over the floor.

Personally, I grab a host of RSS feeds with my morning coffee, and browse web news that isn't available by RSS. Out the door and on my way, i brak out the laptop on the 1:10 bus ride to work and read the RSS I grabbed earlier. (A cell broadband connection would come under the heading of discretionary). I repeat the process in the afternoon for the return trip.

Up to date, not waste on the bus, and no profit for abd service providing harwood news.

If you can read this, thank a teacher. If you can read it in English, You're welcome - Deskpilot, AM(H)1 (AW), USN (Ret)