Columnist Is Failing To Save Left-Wing Dailies
County Press (Second Thoughts) Suburban Philadelphia ^ | 9-28-05 | William W. Lawrence
The Inquirer and Daily News have announced plans to cut some 100 writers and reporters along with other newsroom employees.
That is 16 percent of staff. Falling advertising revenues and circulation are blamed.
Actually, sheer stupidity and arrogance could account for a good part of the declining circulation.
I have tried over the past months to save the Inquirer, but alas, the left-wing, liberal commissars there have refused to follow my advice and accept my aid.
They continue to preach to the choir.
Anything and everything bad is "Bush's fault."
Tony Auth is even calling Katrina "George's Hurricane."
Inquirer editor Amanda Bennett said, "as long as I believe we are doing great journalism, I'm going to stay and fight like hell." But she added, "We are going to have to rethink ourselves."
You say that, Amanda, but you do not really mean it. You are not doing "great journalism." You are simply serving as a house organ for the Democratic Party.
I'm laying odds that Auth and Trudy Rubin will still be there when they turn out the lights.
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A Stratford, Conn., man charged with leaving his girlfriend to die after his car ended up in a Stamford pond has been sentenced to three and a-half years in prison.
Francisco Loaiza, 30, had pleaded guilty in July to second-degree manslaughter with a motor vehicle.
In the early morning hours of Jan. 15, Loaiza was driving a Nissan Altima at more than 85 miles an hour when he lost control of the car and drove into Holly Pond.
His passenger, Kristina Kalganova, 21, died of head and neck injuries.
Reports that he will move north to Massachusetts and run for the U.S. Senate as a Democrat when he is released have not been confirmed.
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