Web Letters: Wall Street to Daily Papers: 'Drop Dead'

The Liberal Media

By Eric Alterman

This article appeared in the February 11, 2008 edition of The Nation.

January 24, 2008

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  • What better way to silence the critics than to bankrupt them. Without the news services and local papers, where would we get our news about corporate and goverment misdeeds?

    So without the papers, radio and TV dominate the MSM, which is just what they want, the most conglomerated, most beholden media to give us our daily news. It doesn't help that most established papers are also represented by unions...

    We have to think of a business model that works to save the information flow or it will diminish to a dribble and the reporters left to self-censorship or a new career.

    Michael McKinlay

    Hercules, CA

    01/26/2008 @ 12:45am


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