Why are Newspapers Failing?

Here's a reason you might choke on.

I had stopped the Asheville Citizen Times several months ago after having been a subscriber for over four years. I was tired of their political correctness labeled as hard-hitting news, news I had needed to make decisions on how to react daily to a fast changing society under a poliitical party that would probably rule as if there were not rules.

Then many months later on April 27, 2009, the front section of the Times blew onto my lawn via a North Carolina late spring breeze. Picking it up to toss into the recycling bag, I stopped and read the front page story that was just below the fold. I shook my head in disgust, the words reminding me again that I had made an excellent decision and why newspapers are going under.

But you decide for yourself, as you read the story below I captured for your enjoyment. It is an AP article a Times senior editor picked up and decided to place on its front page for all its progressive readers to glow over. To me, the copy instead drips with saliva as if the writer was slobbering all over an Obama covered with cool and inviting whipped cream. "Oh, that tastes so good!" he seemed to write.

And they call this "NEWS?" But what do I know.

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Source: Asheville Citizens Times, April 27, 2009