Philadelphia Newspapers LLC Files for Chapter 11
That’s right: the biggest news of the day, in Philly at least, is below the fold, subservient to the Oscar Awards, which are even less relevant to daily life in Philadelphia than Jocelyn Kirsch’s breasts.
And then you have the owner’s columnists. Jonathan Last, who scrawls pointless conservative screeds with all the blood of Caspar Milquetoast: not only wrong, but tiresomely so:
. By 2003, they accounted for 49 percent of abortions. Nearly a fifth of all abortions are requested by married women.
Also, abortion is often not a onetime thing – a terrible mistake from which women learn a difficult lesson. According to the CDC, in 2003 – a fairly typical year – 43.6 percent of abortions were performed on women who had previously had one or more abortions. It seems as though many women view abortion as simply a contraceptive of last resort.
Blah blah blah, i want the government to make adults’ decisions for them because women can’t be trusted, blah blah blah. Last should change his name to Buzz Killington.
Or Kevin Ferris’s “Back Channels”, which refers to his lower intestine and colon, where his predictable, soporific “ideas” are fermented. here’s a recent [stool] sample:
Holder addressed one of those means, affirmative action, in his speech. He said there can be “very legitimate debate” on the issue – “nuanced, principled, and spirited.” But too often, he said, the conversation is “simplistic and left to those on the extremes.”
I’m guessing that the “extremes” include people who oppose race-based policies such as affirmative action. That was the view of the Clinton administration, which made much of its national dialogue on race, but whose distinguished commission included no one who had fundamental disagreements with the use of racial preferences.
In other words, let’s have an “honest and open” dialogue on race, but don’t bring up certain views, or you will be labeled an extremist – i.e., racist. This is about the convener’s photo-op, not your concerns.
Holder takes this model further. Now, if you fail to join the chat under the stated preconditions, you’re a coward, too.
blah blah blah, i want to tell black people why affiramtive action is bad, everyone listen to me!, blah blah blah, all offered with a hearty harrumph from behind Ferris’s spittle-flecked beard (where i understand he keeps Cheetos remnants for late day snacks).
Then we have the Genius Hire of the Year, recently fired US Senator Rick “man-on-dog” Santorum, a man so universally loathed in Pennsylvania, he lost by a whopping 58.7 percent statewide, and by 84.1% in Philadelphia to Bob Casey, a man with all the personality and charisma as a glass of pureed kelp. Rick’s column is called “the Elephant in the Room”, and his ideas are developed in the same fashion as Ferris’s: in the darkness of his rectum. The column stinks, as you’d expect:
This is not a front- or even back-page story in the American press today. Why? Because it has nothing to do with the economy.
The gathering storm I have been warning of for years has now formed over the West. Yet instead of fighting the gradual incursion of Sharia and the demands of an intolerant, even militant Islam, Westerners are cowering and fatalistic. Last year, the Archbishop of Canterbury conceded that acceptance of some parts of Sharia in Britain seemed “unavoidable.”
So how did the market do today?
Blah blah blah, i am scared of Muslims.
And that’s just a glance at the website and the dreck at the Inquirer’s op-ed page. The Daily News is marginally better, although marred by the continued presence of stalker Christine “Kill ‘em all but don’t have an abortion” Flowers.
And this doesn’t even begin to touch on the policy of linking articles to products people buy, as if my decision to buy a camera has anything to do with whether I found an article on Mayor Nutter interesting. Or the url’s obsession with breasts, cheerleaders, and high school yearbook photographs of NBC 10’s anchor staff.
Personally, I think you could fire almost every columnist in the Inquirer and Daily News and no one would miss them. The Philadelphia Newspapers LLC is going down because their newspaper is crappy. Even the comics section sucks.
The fact is, I get better and more accurate news on the Internets, and unfortunately, neither of Mr. Tierney’s publications offer me what I want. That seems to be so for much of the city, and that’s just plain sad: Philly deserves a quality source for news. Philadelphia Newspapers LLC ain’t it.
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