Washington Post Struggles to Keep Painting Greens as Struggling

The Washington Post is in a dangerous place. (0.00 / 0)

Readership is down. Liberals are convinced they're a corporatist sellout that disregards the truth and Conservatives are convinced that that they're a Democratic think tank.  

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by: Venu @ Mon Aug 30, 2010 at 21:02:19 PM UTC

If you want to know how WaPo is reacting to that ... (0.00 / 0)

... look how many times an article featuring the word "Palin" makes the front page. The Post gave up the online subscription battle without ever firing a shot, so now they're chasing clicks, and Drudge/Palin/Beck is the best way to do that.

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by: TheGreenMiles @ Mon Aug 30, 2010 at 21:07:34 PM UTC

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Didn't you have to write term papers for college history classes? (4.00 / 1)

I ask that, because if you had that experience, surely you understand the universal utility of always having a few paragraphs handy in your head on the "rising middle class".  This text was soemthing you kept available, much as police keep a throw-down weapon handy to get them out of tight spots after they shoot some random person, for insertion in any term paper or essay question on any period of history, because the one Iron Law of History, is that the middle class is always rising.

The journalists need to have these little tricks at hand to make their lives manageable, much like students with their ever-rising middle class, or police persons with their throw-down weapons.  So environmentalists are always struggling.  That's one of the Iron Laws of Journalism.  It's the same as the idea that the Irish are still struggling with crushing poverty (Oh, wait, that one is true again.).  In an earlier, more innocent, era, all freighters were Liberian, and the only things that happened in Pakistan were bus plunges, but these have been replaced with more contemporary perpetually recurring stories.  

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by: Glen Tomkins @ Mon Aug 30, 2010 at 22:51:37 PM UTC