America's largest newspaper chain Gannett
orders USA Today and other publications
to roll back op-eds after 'repelling readers'
with biased articles
Daily Mail (UK),
by
Jennifer Smith
Original Article
Posted By: Ribicon,
6/10/2022 5:04:28 PM
America's largest newspaper chain Gannett has instructed its newsrooms to scale back opinion pieces which are 'repelling readers' who do not want to be told what to do. The newspaper chain owns the USA Today network which takes in hundreds of local newspapers in almost every state across the country. At a recent editors committee meeting in April, editors said in a presentation: 'Readers don’t want us to tell them what to think. 'They don’t believe we have the expertise to tell anyone what to think on most issues. 'They perceive us as having a biased agenda,' according to The Washington Post.(Snip)'Today’s contemporary audiences frequently are unable to distinguish
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Nimby 6/10/2022 5:07:51 PM (No. 1182161)
Who is subscribing to these newspapers?
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Bur Oak 6/10/2022 5:11:55 PM (No. 1182165)
Way late for me.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
DaddyO 6/10/2022 5:12:59 PM (No. 1182166)
Don't even read USA Today when it's free at the hotel. Rarely see them offered any more.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Paglia guy 6/10/2022 5:29:28 PM (No. 1182181)
Gannett is probably trying desperately to hold on to its many smaller town news properties, as Alden Co buys them up, strips them of veteran writers and hires teenagers who don't know anything. Thus, the failures of our print news business. Our newspaper in Norfolk isn't much more than an obituary page wrapped in fluff.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
snowoutlaw 6/10/2022 5:31:59 PM (No. 1182183)
This story is a good example of why we do not trust them. The problem for the fake media is contemporary audiences frequently are ABLE to distinguish between objective news reporting and Opinion content, hence we can see the lies when maybe before some couldn't.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
red1066 6/10/2022 5:38:27 PM (No. 1182188)
To answer #1's question. Hotel chains are the huge subscribers to USA Today. I've stayed in many a hotel that when I've opened the door to leave in the morning, a copy of USA Today is on the floor by my door. I never read it, I just throw it away. Some Hotels have a stack a USA Today in lobby instead.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
qr4j 6/10/2022 5:47:08 PM (No. 1182193)
Many participants on this forum are quite good at spotting Leftist BS and calling it out. Who wants to buy a newspaper or watch a televised news program that carries insults about conservative people? Who wants to spend money to be ridiculed and fed lies?
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Rich323 6/10/2022 5:48:10 PM (No. 1182195)
They give them away free in many hotels but I’ve never read them. Ive seen many lying on airport seats probably from the hotels, and people reading in flight. Not sure what the political persuasions of these readers are maybe just bored?
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
leonardo 6/10/2022 5:56:08 PM (No. 1182201)
Marshall McLuhan couldn't have been more right when he said:
"All media exist to invest our lives with artificial perceptions and arbitrary values.”
The Dumbed-Down contingent of Americans NEED someone to tell then how and what to think ...so these people have become SHEEP to HERD.
Twittter, another form of MEDIA, is a prime example as they actually censor real but inconvenient information, to suit their own narratives. Heed these biased media advice at your peril ... their "opinons" are corporate and political in nature and are intended to CONTROL your thoughts and actions.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
lakerman1 6/10/2022 6:06:33 PM (No. 1182213)
USA Today bought the Erie Times News, and it has not gone well.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Rama41 6/10/2022 6:10:01 PM (No. 1182217)
Unfortunately, the AP will always be with us.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
jeffkinnh 6/10/2022 6:11:38 PM (No. 1182218)
"they perceive us as having a biased agenda"
What we "perceive" is the truth that most of us already knew; the media is a progressive propaganda organism. At a minimum, the press should be encouraging an exchange of ideas and robust discussion, even if they don't agree with Conservatives, Instead, they are viciously and personally attacking anyone who dares to counter their progressive messaging. They rarely even discuss the ideas and evidence on the table. They throw wild, irrational charges of racism, misogynism, hate, etc. and attempt to batter opponents into hiding.
It's too late for the media. Their polling is abysmal. No one believes or trusts them. The only thing they have to sell is their trustworthiness and few would give them a penny for their opinions and reporting at this point.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Newtsche 6/10/2022 6:21:09 PM (No. 1182224)
The thing is they aim to repel readers, they think it's a purpose.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
mossley 6/10/2022 6:22:13 PM (No. 1182225)
Talk about closing the barn door after the horse is gone! Newspapers are dinosaurs.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Quigley 6/10/2022 6:26:12 PM (No. 1182229)
They should just bribe the DoJ to force the readers to approve the op eds. A 100 grand in attorneys fees would get the reader’s mind right. Huncher can probably get it done; Pappy Poopy Pants does as he bids cause huncher is the smartest man Pappy knows, who will give Pappy the time of day. Obumbum hates old Pappy and won’t even look at him.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Gordon Freeman 6/10/2022 6:29:40 PM (No. 1182231)
What reasonable person would want to read propaganda? Really?
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
john56 6/10/2022 6:40:39 PM (No. 1182243)
I was a dyed in the wool newspaper reader. One or two daily papers plus the Wall St Journal. Sunday papers was always an enjoyment. At least an hour and a half.
Now our local paper (small town) went from 5 days a week to 2. The Big city paper, I used to get every day now just Sunday. Printed in a city 200 miles away, so basically a Saturday morning newspaper delivered a day late. Can read it in 30 minutes tops. Editorial pages are unreadable.
Got a notice that the Sunday subscription is going from 2.50 to 3.75 a week. May be the end of that.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Corndoggies 6/10/2022 6:50:53 PM (No. 1182247)
As a teenager I’d sit with my dad after school and read the newspaper. My mom would say don’t bother those two when they’ve got their nose in the paper. There was a lot of liberal bias even then, this was in the mid 70’s, but it was contained mainly to the editorial page. Our favorite thing was letters to the editor. Good times.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
Vesicant 6/10/2022 6:52:20 PM (No. 1182248)
But what will the libterds and other assorted morons do without headlines saying "Here's What You Need To Know"? (aka "this is your goodthink for today.")
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
formerNYer 6/10/2022 7:12:26 PM (No. 1182263)
too late
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
cactus 6/10/2022 7:17:11 PM (No. 1182271)
Of the 26 houses on my block in Tucson, only 5 receive the Tucson paper. I stopped when it became so biased, when it started being printed in Phoenix so local sports that finished after 6-7 pm were in the next days paper (maybe), costs for a year went to $800 (now over $1000) and I realized I had read most subjects on the internet before the paper was delivered. The paper has blocked most of their articles on the internet unless you are at least a digital subscriber. I’ve noticed most Letters to the Editor have a very liberal bias. Either the editor chooses them like that or most conservatives have cancelled their subscription so don’t bother writing. In any case, the way our economy is going, I think there will be a lot more cancellations. The only sections I miss are the sports page (maybe not so much though as sports become more “woke”) and the cartoon page.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
brownshoepogue 6/10/2022 7:19:17 PM (No. 1182272)
The National Socialist Media, to include newspapers and broadcast corporations caused their own demise years ago. I stopped using those products because of the leftist BS. Way to Late for them to recover. Bye bye pravda.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
Starboard_side 6/10/2022 7:59:44 PM (No. 1182308)
Says a lot when only Democrats have a positive view of the national media.
But, at 78%.
How gullible a group who might not know how to distinguish the truth when it's being presented.
Says a lot on the production of the tv show the J6 committee is broadcasting, since their target audience has the highest positive view of the national media already.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
ladydawgfan 6/10/2022 8:10:02 PM (No. 1182316)
When I was 4 years old, according to my mother, I taught myself to read from the local newspaper. In my teens, I shared a newspaper route with my brother, delivering the local and Chicago papers to residents of our neighborhood. About 15 years ago, I actually worked for the local paper in the classified section. Last year, the only paper I bought and read was the Thanksgiving issue so I could get the Black Friday ads. Now even those are available online.
Newspapers are slowly going the way of the Dodo and good riddance to them.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
Omen55 6/10/2022 8:11:18 PM (No. 1182318)
Get woke.
Go broke.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
The Remnants 6/10/2022 8:59:27 PM (No. 1182352)
They may be the last to know. It's over. Nobody cares what you have to say
because you would not know Truth if you fell over it. Go away.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
DVC 6/10/2022 10:05:02 PM (No. 1182396)
OPPS!
Too late.
I won't read the free ones shoed under my hotel door.
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
JimBob 6/10/2022 11:13:57 PM (No. 1182428)
Pre-Internet, I tried to become informed. I read the available papers, listened to the news on the radio, watched the TV news.
They would all run the same three or four stories. One would be some derogatory piece about Conservatives, one would be along the lines of "Is Britney Spears (or Paris Hilton) wearing panties today?" another would be some "We've only got ten years to save the Earth" .... whatever it was, it was all the same stories, from the same viewpoint, and often using the same words.
Remember the Soviet module to the Space Station, and the fans? EVERY news article about it mentioned not 'noisy' fans, or 'rattling' fans. No, every single one said "Clattering" fans. How often do you run across that word? Not very often. That got me really watching the wording, and so many articles used the SAME words. Remember the leftist 'Journ-O-List', where all these leftist hacks got their marching orders every morning? No-one ever ratted out who ran it, but watch the articles these days and it is obvious that it is still in business.
Then Rush Limbaugh came on the air.... and I wondered where he got his stories..... so many stories that were not in the sources that were available to ME!
Then, years later, I came across Lucianne.
If I read Lucianne in the morning, then when Rush came on, I found that I had already read about the stories that he talked about. I even wrote to Miss Lucianne that her website was Rush's 'show prep'.
Anyway, with the news available through the Internet, newspapers are obsolete, and as the lefties running most of them would say (if it was anyone but them running the papers) that they are a waste of resources and a source of Carbon pollution.
The local (a leftist McClatchey rag) paper is following the typical pattern.... fewer and fewer pages, printing done in a city far away.... sold their building that used to house the presses..... based out of a storefront somewhere.....circling the drain.
I will not miss them.
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
smokincol 6/11/2022 12:31:53 AM (No. 1182462)
time for some leader of some media chain to open up a venue so the voice of the people will be heard and put the present media conglomerates out of business
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
Tet Vet 68 6/11/2022 1:20:54 AM (No. 1182476)
Guess their bottom line is in the toilet--just sayin...
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
Blue Hen1 6/11/2022 6:52:45 AM (No. 1182560)
Dropped the local Gannett rag back in 2008 when they endorsed Obummer
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Today's Americans, by design, have been dumbed down and fed a steady diet of Marxism for many decades, to the point where yes, they cannot distinguish news from editorial perspective. But even that doesn't matter because the entire news and entertainment industry is controlled by a small group and coordinated by the government, so news is now opinion, according to which "truth" they choose to show and which they hide.