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Politics : I Will Continue to Continue, to Pretend....

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To: Sully- who wrote (23716)11/21/2006 12:41:16 PM
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Is Your Newspaper America's Worst?

Power Line

Scott recently suggested that the Minneapolis Star Tribune may be America's worst newspaper. That produced lots of emails from readers who nominated their own newspapers, or others with which they are familiar, for the honor. This gave us the idea for a new poll: What is the worst newspaper in the United States?

Here are the nominees, with commentary by those who nominated them:

The Minneapolis Star Tribune
: Nominated by Scott, citing Mark Steyn: "Unreadable sludge."

rightwingnews.com


The Houston Chronicle
: A reader who worked for the Chronicle for "quite a while":
    "Its main problem is not even its liberalism, which it 
suffers from, but its vapidity. On top of that, the editor
from Hearst Corp. is trying to teach Houstonians how to be
proper liberals. The fact that no one ever hears about the
newspaper at America's fourth largest city should tell you
a lot."

The Olympian (Olympia, Washington): MHJ:
    "From their editorial about how good it is that the 
Governor is going to direct the employees of the State
Department of Transportation to cooperate with the State
Auditor on taxpayer-directed performance audits, to their
choice of letters to the editor, the Olympian begs for an
editorial staff with common sense and analytical skills."

The Seattle Post-Intelligencer
: Thomas Nast (among many other readers of Stefan Sharkansky):
    "Consistently, and I do mean consistently, substitutes 
liberal dogma for 'facts' (which it then prints on the
front page as 'news') and conjures the most knee-jerk
editorials I've ever seen."
http://soundpolitics.com/

The Los Angeles Times: Max Wyeth:
    "All around worst paper, general purposes."
See generally Patterico.

patterico.com

The Boston Globe: Scott Wilhelm:
    I could point out their vapid, predictable, and one sided 
editorials, or the news stories that are really vapid,
predictable, and one sided editorials as evidence.
Instead, however, I suggest you follow this link (below),
detailing a recent Boston Globe "scoop." Essentially the
Globe got pictures from a pornographic website by way of
the Nation of Islam and claimed that these pictures were
evidence of American servicemen raping Iraqi women. While
there are certainly many deserved candidates for the title
of worst newspaper in America, I think you will not find a
lower, more pathetic attempt by members of the MSM to
smear our troops and our country anywhere else."
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1134682/posts

Richard Allison: See Squaring the Boston Globe.

squaringtheglobe.blogspot.com


The Palm Beach Post
: Ronald Griffis:
    "Since the early 80's, many locals have referred to it as 
the 'Palm Beach Pravda' for the nearly comical level of
progressive propaganda in its pages. For good examples of
this, you can visit the op-ed pages online (particularly
the local columnists) or check out their latest multimedia
Special Report."
http://alt.coxnewsweb.com/palmbeachpost/photos/accent/tj/trainjumping.html

The St. Petersburg Times: Rob Riordan:
    "Have you even seen the Pravda of the south? This is the 
paper that took Howell Raines after the New York Times
dumped him. But the topping on the cake was when TWO of
its reporters were caught on tape by the FBI coaching
convicted terrorist Sami Al-Arian."
See Daniel Pipes's report here.

danielpipes.org

The Chicago Tribune: Rich Ryan:
    "It's not even worth using for lining my bird cage."
http://coolrich59.blogspot.com/2005/10/execrable-chicago-tribune-went-out-for.html

The Portland (Maine) Press Herald: Jim Verdolini:
    I nominate the Portland Press Herald (Portland Maine). The
paper has the habit of picking candidates they like
(liberal Democrats) and then suppressing all news and
opinion that hammers their guy.
    A classic example: 
    In 2000 they editorialized that the perpetual Gore recount
SHOULD be settled in the courts as the Florida
legislature, dominated by Republicans, was too partisan to
produce a valid result. In 2002 Maine had a very close
state senate election. The existing Democrat senate seated
the Democrat candidate while the recount effort moved to
the courts. The PPH editorialized that the courts were, of
course, NOT the proper place to settle the issue as they
were not beholden to the people. To make it more
entertaining, when the state senate acted to vote on
seating the Democrat permanently, they let the guy vote
for his own seating, casting the deciding vote. The paper
saw absolutely nothing wrong with that at all.
    I wrote an opinion piece to the paper quoting both their 
editorial positions. They refused to print it.

The Oregonian (Portland): Laurence Oeth:
    "Farther left than the Guardian, but without the snappy 
prose. Never saw a tax or union it wasn't in love with.
Read it and weep. You really need to see the print version
for the full effect. The headlines are much more
inflammatory than the relatively tame online version."

Kansas City Star: Max Wyeth:
    "Relentless liberalism, then spiteful revenge pieces."

San Francisco Chronicle: Not nominated by any readers, but a paper that few will dispute belongs on this list. See this recent example, and this.

zombietime.com

zombietime.com

Santa Fe New Mexican: Major General (ret.) Frank Schober:
    Constantly regurgitates the current Democrat talking 
points in both its news articles and its editorials.
    Examples: 
    *Gives us a daily Iraq "body count" even on days when none
of our soldiers have been killed....just to keep up its
anti-war drumbeat. Also reports, for example that "25
Iraqis killed in raid" but does not report that 22 of
those killed were terrorists attacking a government
installation.
    *Not particularly adept at proof reading. Thinks that
"Spell Check" will save the day. They have published such
gems as "Alter Boys accuse priest of..." and "Recipient of
Nobel Piece Prize states..."
    *Misleads by using headlines that do not reflect reality, 
like DOW-JONES TOPS 12,000, BUT SOME "ANALYSTS" SAY IT
CAN'T LAST.

Washington Post: Max Wyeth:
    "Slavish liberalism (probably all those gummint workers)."

You will notice that the New York Times is not included in the competition. We wanted to keep a level playing field so that the other papers could have a chance.

Have at it! You can vote for America's Worst Newspaper on Power Line News.

powerlineblog.com

PAUL suggests: Once we get a winner, let's have it face the New York Times. Our readers should have the opportunity at some point to vote for the Times.

UPDATE: The Seattle Post-Intelligencer has jumped out to an early lead. We must have a lot of readers in Seattle!

powerlineblog.com

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