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John;
Quality journalism has been sacrificed. Investagative reporting has also been hurt. You can deny all you want but your Wray coverage has just been plain wrong and I might add biased and slanted. I don't know how much bad reporting has cost the N&R and or if it even caused the layoffs. But it sure as hell hurt you. But starting with Ethan Feinsilver, Victor Nussbaum and now with the Wray fray, and many other stories, your reporters have added their own slants to the news and that is just plain wrong. You can disagree and I know you probably will. But I believe your paper has gone backwards for several years. I am not a right winger. I only want fairness in my newspaper and I hope that you will understand this

It goes on everywhere. Who would have thought that an ABC affiliate would not have news (WXLV-TV 45). Other broadcasters are eliminating their Sports Departments in favor of covering sports as news when it requires it.

The biggest problem is not the reduction on revenue by news organizations; but the reduction in people interested in the news. An uniformed public can result in consequences we have not seen since the 1930's.

Well, we all know that the "right wingers" are lunatics that exist only on the fringe away from all the smart people. Therefore, whatever they claim to exist can easily be dismissed and forgotten as the rantings of ideological freaks who cry when things don't go exactly the way they want them to.

Ignoring them as oddities is a good way to be willfully blind and provides a good opportunity to roll one's eyes and joke about them at dinner parties.

It's real easy to be enlightened when surrounded by similar thinking minds.

I hope that I didn't offend anyone by saying that
" I am not a right winger ". If I did, I apologize.

Wayne, that bit of sarcasm wasn't directed at you.

Samuel Spagnola
The CA

Geez, Wayne. I know what you think of us, but Victor Nussbaum? That's going back 15 years or so. I'd suggest to you just what the post says: be skeptical of what you read. I submit you're holding us to a different, higher standard. That's fine and how it should be. But don't presume what you've read elsewhere about the stories you cite to be true.

Samuel, I don't know that I've ever used the term "right-wingers" or implied what you're suggesting so I hope r comment wasn't directed at me, either.

Well, we all know that the "right wingers" are lunatics that exist only on the fringe away from all the smart people. Therefore, whatever they claim to exist can easily be dismissed and forgotten as the rantings of ideological freaks who cry when things don't go exactly the way they want them to.* Sam

Only the neo-con right wingers are lunatics Sam. Surely, you should know that after all of your republican neo-con comments on the internet for the attention of a failed political cause against the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.

To say the decision by JR is political is like lunatic George Bush claiming we are kicking butte in Iraq and winning.

I am only suggested that the accusations of bias come far more from the Right then Left, and it is too easy to dismiss those criticisms as the invalid rantings of unsatisfied or fringe conservatives who just aren't happy that the news isn't slanted in their favor.

Liberals, for the most part, must be far more satisfied and one must question why. Either the right wingers are just wacky and off base and that is why they complain more, or the criticisms are valid.

The Vic Nussbaum coverage, the Ethan Finesilver debacale, the Wray coverage.

All of it is a pattern.

There is a mood in that newsroom that reporters and editors (especially Lex) are trying to find the "gotcha" with every story they do.

You are rarely right because there is actually rarely the kind of "gotcha" you want.

Just give up on this type of coverage.

The only time you were right was on all that housing fraud stuff in the black community -- and guess who was doing that? Not the folks your newsroom typically views as big bad and evil (the white man).

So, just give up and cover stories that real people care about. Quit trying to bring down "the man" all the time.

The Vic Nussbaum coverage, the Ethan Finesilver debacale, the Wray coverage.

All of it is a pattern.

There is a mood in that newsroom that reporters and editors (especially Lex) are trying to find the "gotcha" with every story they do.

You are rarely right because there is actually rarely the kind of "gotcha" you want.

Just give up on this type of coverage.

The only time you were right was on all that housing fraud stuff in the black community -- and guess who was doing that? Not the folks your newsroom typically views as big bad and evil (the white man).

So, just give up and cover stories that real people care about. Quit trying to bring down "the man" all the time.

Didnt mean to post twice...

Also, I guess the A&T coverage also helps make my point..

I am only suggested that the accusations of bias come far more from the Right then Left, and it is too easy to dismiss those criticisms as the invalid rantings of unsatisfied or fringe conservatives who just aren't happy that the news isn't slanted in their favor.* Generic Sam

Define " fringe conservatives" than define neo-con conservatives, than define constitutionist, than join another party or support Ron Paul.

Liberals, for the most part, must be far more satisfied and one must question why. Either the right wingers are just wacky and off base and that is why they complain more, or the criticisms are valid.* The CA

Define Liberals and you can't use Russ Lambaugh School of research as your source. Define Foxx network and than define Ruppert Muddock who supports Hillary Clinton. No wonder you are screw up with your Republican politics in the mainstream media Sam!