Someday in the future there will be a special place in… err the museum for the display of the Gray Lady. Rick Moran of Pajama’s media creates this likely scenario…
The inscription on the shiny bronze plate below the exhibit might read:
Thought of as the “newspaper of record” for more than 100 years, the Times eventually succumbed to disappearing ad revenue, a catastrophic decline in circulation, and the consequences of a perpetual, unrelenting, obvious and sickening bias exhibited against its political enemies.
Scott Rasmussen has been polling the attitudes of voters toward the news media and has uncovered the not-so-startling statistic that 50% of independent voters believe that reporters favor Barack Obama and are trying to help him win. Only 14% believe that they are assisting John McCain. With half the country able to see through the gushing idolatry of the press and their shameless promotion of Obama’s candidacy, where does that leave journalistic standards like objectivity and fairness?
Newspapers, we are told, should not strive for something as elusive as a will-o-the-wisp objectivity in their reporting. Whether that’s true or not we will never know because no major paper has ever risen to the challenge and tried it.
I would call that inscription an obituary and the present editors of the Gray Lady are quickening the time when that will be written. Beware Gray Lady, the future will arrive sooner than you think!
