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Don’t think the Editorial Boards aren’t reflecting their readership. No oversight has been an unmitigated disaster that the military has had to bear the brunt of. Putting 20-something GOP political idealogues in charge of the Iraq reconstruction doomed it from the start and Congress abdicated all responsibility. Rumsfeld championed this misguided effort and needs to go now. |
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Don’t think the Editorial Boards aren’t reflecting their readership. That’s an assumption which has no basis in hard data nor any particular history in civilian media (the NYT’s editorials (or any other major daily) may or may not reflect the opinion of their readership).
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The papers in question are publications which cater to the military reader, certainly, but are hardly "military papers"
I wouldn’t have known this if you hadn’t told me.
However,
That’s an assumption which has no basis in hard data nor any particular history in civilian media
well, there’s no proof, but one would assume that, since they rely on military personnel for their audience, and their sources, it would be in their interest to avoid publishing things they know their audience *disagrees with.
If they are out of touch, then we should expect to see it in a loud reader backlash by the military audience... |
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Living in the former corporate headquarters city of the Gannett corporation, I can tell you for a fact that they’re also most often associated with left wing causes. Their local paper, "the Democrat and Chronicle" is often referred to as "the Chronic Democrat", as an example.
Frank Gannett, who died the year I was born, from what I know the man, would be rolling in his grave, if he had the slightest idea of what was being done in his name. |
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well, there’s no proof, but one would assume that, since they rely on military personnel for their audience, and their sources, it would be in their interest to avoid publishing things they know their audience *disagrees with. So that’s now the purpose of editorials and editorial boards ... to agree with their audience.
Heh ... ask any editorial board if that’s their purpose ’nost ... go ahead, I’ll wait. |
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I take your point. The problem comes (and I ran into it myself in writing my own headline), it is difficult to come up with a simple way to summarize Army Times, Navy Times, etc. in a headline.
Still, the fact that these papers (through one editorial) are calling for Rumsfeld to go is significant. |
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Still, the fact that these papers (through one editorial) are calling for Rumsfeld to go is significant. OK.
But not as significant as "4 papers (implying 4 editorial boards)" which cater to the military would be. |
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Lots of editorial pages go against their readership. How many non-conservative Republicans are there in NYC who read the NY Post? How many non-liberal Democrats read the Louisville Courier-Journal? How many non-conservative Republicans read the Ann Arbor News? How many non-liberal Democrats read Norfork Virginia Pilot? It’s very common to have editorial pages that run contrary to the wider readership. Hell, I love the Wall Street Journal. But I don’t touch the editorial page with a ten foot pole. I imagine people on the other side say the same thing about the New York Times.
That said, the Military Times group is a bit different. I’m sure it isn’t hard to find soldiers and officers who dispute an editorial that calls for Rummy’s resignation. I’m actually surprised the outrage isn’t greater. Frankly, the silence is deafening. |
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I’m actually surprised the outrage isn’t greater. Frankly, the silence is deafening. You might want to wait until they actually print the editorial. |
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An official military paper couldn’t publish a "Rumsfeld Must Go" editorial even if it wanted to... |
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