In 1897, Adolph S. Ochs, the owner of The New York Times, created the famous slogan "All the News That's Fit to Print," which still appears on the masthead of the newspaper today. He wrote the slogan as a declaration of the newspaper's intention to report the news impartially.
I’ll have to admit that the New York Times is my
favorite newspaper, in large part due to the fact that it has won 132 Pulitzer Prizes,
more than any other newspaper.
However, I also have paid subscriptions to the
Washington Post (69 Pulitzers). The Boston Globe (26 Pulitzers), and the
Arizona Republic (12 Pulitzers). In addition, I also read the New York Post,
the New York Daily News, and the National Catholic Reporter on a daily basis. Occasionally,
I’ll also read Al Jazeera, the Tucson Daily Star, and the Chicago Tribune.
One of my favorite memories as a kid was laying
on the floor in the living room, and reading the comics in the St. Paul Dispatch.
Years later, I actually wound up working for the St. Paul Dispatch on Saturday
nights, assembling the Sunday newspaper. I also was instrumently in helping my
brothers-in-law, and one of my co-workers to join me.
Breslin worked for the New York Daily News for a
number of years, but he also wrote columns for several other New York papers.
He won a Pulitzer Prize in 1986 for Commentary "for columns which consistently champion
ordinary citizens"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Breslin
In my early adult years, I frequently read Jim
Klobuchar’s columns in the Star Tribune. Despite his struggles with alcoholism,
he managed to live to be 93 years old – and he is also the father of Senator Amy
Klobuchar.
Over
his 30-year career, he wrote over 7,500 daily columns for the Chicago Daily News, the Chicago Sun-Times, and the Chicago Tribune. A humorist who focused on life in Chicago, he
was the winner of the 1972 Pulitzer Prize for
commentary.
Royko
married Carol Duckman in 1954, and they had two sons, David and Robert. She
suffered a cerebral hemorrhage and died on September 19, 1979, Royko's 47th birthday. He
later described that time as "a period of disintegration. The only column
he wrote during that period was a short note to readers on October 5, 1979, in
which Royko wrote, "We met when she was 6 and I was 9. Same neighborhood
street. Same grammar school. So, if you ever have a 9-year-old son who says he
is in love, don't laugh at him. It can happen. That column ended with a
much-remembered line: "If there's someone you love but haven't said so in
a while, say it now. Always, always, say it now.
After we moved to Arizona, I started a subscription to the
Arizona Republic. Although I read most of the columnists on a regular basis,
E.J. Montini is the guy with the most longevity. I have also discovered that
the columnists will respond to you directly if you write to them.
https://letter.ly/newspaper-statistics/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alden_Global_Capital
To quote Abraham Lincoln, don’t believe everything that you
read on the internet.
Traditional television and radio outlets (commonly known as
mainstream media) have strict controls on what can be said on air. The
editorial boards of “mainstream” newspapers also have strict controls over what
is printed.
Social media companies also have controls on what is posted
online, but are limited in how much they can control. Facebook and Twitter can
restrict or ban certain individuals who are posting mid-information – but that
is not always done.
Spotify paid Joe Rogan $100 million to be his exclusive
sponsor, but his broadcast of mid-leading COVID information led to a response
from other musical artists (like Neil Young) rather than the company itself.
When Roger Ailes founded the FOX network in 1996, he called it
an “entertainment” channel, rather than a news channel. As a result, much of that
is broadcast on the channel cannot be taken as fact. When Tucker Carlson was
recently sued for defamation, his lawyers argued that the 'general tenor' of the show should then
inform a viewer that [Carlson] is not 'stating actual facts' about the topics
he discusses and is instead engaging in 'exaggeration' and 'non-literal
commentary.' "
Since its founding more than 25 years ago, FOX has only earned
ONE Emmy award. Its competitors have earned MANY more. For example, in 2018, CNN
earned three Emmys, CNN International for three, NBC got two, the New York
Times got two, MSNBC got one, ABC got one – and NPR earned SEVEN.
We watch Rachel Maddow whenever she is on the air because she
is well informed – and funny.
In the first quarter of 2021, she was the most watched on-air
personality on cable news, with 3.606 million viewers.
Three months later, the most-watched host was Tucker Carlson,
who had an average audience of 2.8 million viewers. This is the guy, remember,
whose attorneys said that nothing that he said could be taken as fact.
One example of this is Mike Royko's column of November 22, 1979, which was published shortly after his wife died.
http://michaelsherwood.com/RoykoNovember.html
Unlike most Americans, I don’t watch a lot of television, but
I will ALWAYS read newspapers.
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