A modest proposal re: The Boston Globe
A great idea from
Da Tech Guy:
The Right should buy the Boston Globe�and staff it with conservatives
There has been a lot of talk about what conservatives need to do in order to get their message out to the low information voter. These are the voters who don�t pay attention to the news, don�t watch cable or read blogs much but do read general magazines while waiting at the doctor, who do hear CNN in the background in airports or at their local bar and restaurant.
The problem is those background noises are filled with liberal pap.
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Da Tech Guy then suggests that some people band together and buy the Boston Globe (it's for sale). Print media is not making that much money these days but Da Tech Guy quotes this piece from
Robert Stacy McCain:
consider how rich liberals are willing to act as �angels� toward their media pets. I made this point yesterday in regard to Tina Brown, who lost $80 million during two years as editor of Talk, after losing $40 million during a three-year period as editor of The New Yorker, and who has most recently pushed back the goalposts of projected profitability at the Daily Beast to somewhere between (a) three years and (b) when hell freezes over.
Does it not occur to you, my clever readers, that these are not merely business losses, but are in fact a sort of charitable endeavor to support the propagation of fashionable liberalism?
And Da Tech Guy says that it is not just about the news. Imagine the following:
- Imagine a Movie section where the liberal themes of a picture were noted and tweaked while the conservative themes were highlighted and celebrated.
- Imagine a culture section where events of a conservative nature were celebrated while liberals pressed to get the press.
- Imagine reviews of plays with conservative themes getting web space and print space and liberal themes hoping for a line or two.
- Imagine stories in the Sunday section celebrating historic places, people and sites that highlight America�s conservative History or people who are conservative doing great things for the community.
- Imagine a whole slew of conservative Journalists cutting their teeth of straight news instead of news with a liberal spin, imagine the farm team it would create.
- Imagine an editorial page giving conservative opinion day after day after day.
- And imagine a web site ranked in the top 1500 worldwide and top 350 nationally, a web site that local papers around New England draw stories from giving that public conservative thought as background noise in the same way that liberals have done for ages.
Makes a lot of sense. Conservative backers have spent hundreds of millions on Romney's campaign for naught -- they didn't change the hide-bound RINO message. A hundred million spent at the Globe could change the USA for the better...
Posted by DaveH at February 23, 2013 12:47 PM