Don't read, don't buy; don't turn it on , don't watch....

So the News Corp has lost over $6 billion this year....and the NYTimes has sustained deep losses in advertising revenue. Is it possible that at least some of this is due to readers and viewers becoming more discerning in their choices of what to read or watch? Are they getting fed up with the neocon ideology?

From here, it feels as if the media are going all out to recapture their losses by attacking President Obama and by linking any progress in Washington to the Republicans. The Washington Post today had an article about the stimulus' making it through the Senate. The photo showed TWO Republicans and ONE Democrat--as if the Repugs have not been dragging their feet in serious numbers--and the headline trumpeted "Bipartisan deal eases way for stimulus package in Senate." That may be true, but it gives more credit to the Repugs than they deserve.

The WaPo is actually ADDING to its mostly conservative columnists. They hired Bill Kristol after he was recently dumped by the NYT. The February 9 edition of New York magazine says in "Who's Right for the Times" on p. 11, "It's hard to imagine that Kristol's presence expanded the paper's readership by a single person." Imagination, however, may be leading the WaPo astray on this. They may think the average US citizen is not totally fed up with what the neocons have wrought over the past eight years. They may imagine they have not gone far enough to the right.