- NYT is down about 35% or so in 8 years, but they’re as biased as anyone can get.
- Gannett appears to be up about 10% or so since a trough of July 2000. USA Today is tolerable, as are some of their other papers. Some aren’t. On balance, though, less biased and performing better.

The better indicators are subscriber numbers. LAT has gone from about 900,000 to 775,000 in about 18 months or less. Losing a few % is understandable. Dropping in the neighborhood of 14% in a short time is an indicator that it’s more than just a glacial change in habits. OC Register and other local papers have not declined precipitously.

The point about the Times dragging the Trib down is that the other papers haven’t suffered subscriber losses like LAT (though they have declined some), so it would be fair to ascribe a large portion of Trib’s deterioration to the LAT.

Newspapers IN GENERAL are suffering from intractable bias, because journalists have set themselves apart and feel that certain topics, certain viewpoints, and covering certain events is beneath them. The pervasive attitudes in the entire industry have hastened their decline. Other forms of info and entertainment are filling the void they left wide open. It’s a comeuppance they’ve virtually been begging for.

Oh, but then that might weaken your diatribe against “liberal media bias”. Whereas in reality, the bias exposed in this post is in fact confirmation bias — and it’s on the part of the poster.

#8, The wailing and gnashing of teeth will be entertaining.

#9, sometimes I think the Beeb is morphing into the UK branch of Al Jazeera. I think that the TV subsidy should end, and the Beeb should be privatized.

The Independent especially is now effectively a specialist paper for the anti-war and climate change lobbies.

I truly fear for what this wil mean for UK journalism in the long run.

Similarly, the BBC news service is “chasing” a political agenda and becoming further and further seperated form its’ licence payers. I am no great fan of media subsidy, but it is very sad to see an organisation destroy itself because of the political views of its’ editorial staff.

I think that the UK, like the US old media requires a heavy dose of market realism to end this sad decline.

…dream dram dream…

a man can dream

LAT is notorious for ignoring politically incorrect crime, scandals, etc associated with illegal immigrants, inner city gangs, crime rates, etc.