In 'survival mode,' newspapers slashing jobs

What this article fails to mention is the damage these newspapers have done to themselves with their oh so obvious liberal slants on many issues. Their swoons over Obama are one of the worst offenders. Why do those newspapers with a balanced or conservative sense of reporting appear to be doing somewhat better? I believe it was P.T. Barnum that once said "you can't fool all of the people all of the time". What goes around comes around.

Newspapers don't report anything anymore. 95% of what is in a newspaper is pure wild speculation of things that might happen. We should call them science fiction rags instead of newspapers. Manufactured news is probably the worst part of it all such as polls. People are sick of politicized commentary, just give us the facts without the BS and maybe we will start reading again. I guess that would mean finding real reporters and not political hacks to fill your newsrooms.

+1 on bias being the undoing of news agencies. 30 years ago the journalistic ethic was different. It was understood that impartiality was impossible, but at least some attempt was made to filter biases out of reporting. Now it's completely different. There's no pretense of impartiality. I live in L.A. Times territory. The Times' unveiled efforts to mold the city to its liking make it a worse-than-average tool for getting information. Why would I pay for the Times when I can get better quality information for free? Another problem is the complacency of the news machine. So many news outlets these days rely too much on press conferences and canned statements. Covering press conferences isn't enough. A press conference is a tool for disseminating SPIN, not information.

I'm in the Arizona Republic newspaper area. We Arizonans collectively refer to it as the "Arizona Repugnate". This paper is so biased and so left leaning, and has been for years-- they won't call an Illegal Alien and Illegal Alien.. they are "Undocumented Migrant Workers". They do that even for the "Undocs" that kill our police. The paper is absolutely pathetic and is nearly out of business.

The Fickle Fate of Tree Huggers Twenty years ago this story would have been met with glee. Imagine how many trees are being saved by these job cuts from the continuing decline in circulation. Personally I have given up two newspaper subscriptions in the past 36 months. The biased left leaning reporting has created a cancellation frenzy among the masses. They (Newspapers) still don't get it. If I'm going to pay for something called reporting, I'm not looking for a biased opinion that always leans in only one direction. Keep up the "good" work and help save our forests, then we won't need as many stories about tree huggers. By the way, trees are a renewable resource and our forests have grown substantially in the past 50 years despite all the "savage cutting" of trees. We learned how to manage this resource through enhanced management techniques. Our forests have never been healthier. Many Thanks.

The left leaning newspapers (NY Times, Washington Post, Boston Globe,... are all experiencing plummeting sales. When will these organizations come to their senses and realize they have disenfranchised a large percentage of their customer base. Conservatives! Myself, many friends and associates were former readers and now wouldn't fork over a dime for any of these publications. Forty years ago the NY Times was an excellent paper. Yes, it had it's slant, but at least it was confined to the op/ed page. Now that slant is spread thoughout the paper. Occasionally even into the sports section. The internet does have some impact on newspaper sales, but for the lefty papers you have slapped the faces of a large percentage of the population. To paraphrase a line from the movie Network - " I'm as mad as hell and I'm not going to buy your papers anymore"