wombat_socho

...there is no question that the press needs to sell
newspapers, so to speak, and some times you can see that in
their coverage.

Very much so, but they seem to have decided that they're better off with a smaller and more socialist/anti-war audience than they would be with a larger, less politicized audience. ISTR seeing somewhere that the only major newspaper in New York that had recorded an increase in circulation was the tabloid Post, which is noted for its pro-war stance, while the Times and Daily News had both taken it in the shorts...and the same is true for most of the other major newspapers in the country. I blame advocacy journalism, which has done far more harm than good these last forty years in that it has irremediably screwed up the press' ability to simply report the damn news as opposed to telling us what we ought to think about it, even if it means leaving out important facts needed to establish context.