DISQUS

JMO · 2 years ago

Antiwar rallies aren't news. They are boring and tired. Get over yourself sweetie.

Holy Reality · 2 years ago

Newspaper priority number one;
PROFIT, if a lead story does not encourage sales it does not exist. The axiom remains, "if it bleeds it leads".

george · 2 years ago

Understand that FOX 31 had other priorities.

Their Saturday night lead story after the Rockies World Series game was, get this,

3 tiny, made-in-China flags got broken in someone's driveway.
And they had to drive all the way to Greeley for this 'pressing news'.

Lilliputian News?
SNL's 'The Mr. Bill Show'?

It is so absurd it is laughable.
It is so silly i wonder if Jon Stewart, Colbert or Maher will pick up on it.

If the FCC catches this they might have to yank their license so Real Adult Sized news can be presented on the public's airwaves.

The corporate media mouthpieces are brain damaged.

It is an embarrassment to adult Coloradans, & to all thinking rational adults everywhere.

What WERE they thinking?
or not thinking.

DenverDan · 2 years ago

Loring needs to spend less time protesting and more time reading a dictionary.

Large? The "crowd" represented less than 1/100th of 1% of the population of Colorado. That isn't large, that is microscopic. It's statistically irrelevant.

Someday, when you can manage to assemble 1% of the population (i.e. 47,000 people) then you will have a SMALL crowd. Even then, you will have HALF of the people that attend a Denver Bronco's football game.

Deal with the fact that the vast majority of the people (99.99953%) of the people refuse to attend your "protests". That's why your "protest" is microscopic in scope and irrelevant to more important news of the day. Like how many hot dogs were sold at the Rockie's game on Saturday..... you recall that event? The one that attracted 250 times more people to it, even though they had to pay hundreds of dollars to attend, while your event was free!

pauly · 2 years ago

If the newspapers No. one priority is profit than it will compromise its news integrity to make sails. That’s called FOX News not real news. A news paper can and will make money on reporting the news. Will it make as much as an opinion paper such as FOX? No, but it will have credibility.

The inability to see the difference is astounding!

Dennis · 2 years ago

Wouldn't a basic Journalism 101 class instruct students to explore and investigate the opposing viewpoint? So, if there was a front page article that covers a war protest that says the war is unwinnable, shouldn't it contain some facts on how the war is actually going?

Hmm, that would mean saying things like there are no longer any significant al-Qaida holdouts in Iraq, no longer any of Bin Laden's lieutenants that have not been killed or captured, and US deaths are way down this month...

Gayle Storatz · 2 years ago

What alternative do the people who complain about the newspaper's profit motive when selecting news stories? A government run newspaper with bureaucrats designating what is important and what is not? You might want to move to Venezuela and pal around with Hugo Chavez if you think that is the answer.
Anti-war protests are boring and only serve the moral exhibitionism and arrogance of those participating in them. We've been there and done that. How about offering something of substance for a change? If you don't like Fox News, don't watch it. Go to DailyKos where you will probably feel at home.

V.M.Vaughan · 2 years ago

A friend of mine had the following exchange with a television news exec. in Wisconsin. Here is an email exchange with one of these, er, "news" people:

1st attempt:
" We watched and waited and watched and waited.
Not only do you not prove yourself to be a legitimate news source by acknowledging something THE ABC NETWORK acknowledges, you do not even reply to a Wausau resident who alerts you to important national events.
Are you ordered to NOT show anything against the Cheney/Bush regime by your neocon higher ups??
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The reply:
"I apologize for not getting back to you, but was your first e-mail addressed specifically to me?

I don't remember receiving anything from you in the past week or so.

I'm not trying to be argumentative, but I really don't know what you are talking about.

Randy Winter

Director of News & Operations

WAOW/WYOW Television, Inc.

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Did you notice the statement:
"I really don't know what you are talking about."

ARE YOU KIDDING ME??!!
THIS IS A "NEWS DIRECTOR"??!!

Next exchange:
"Your initial e-mail was caught in a junk mail system. Since it was caught sometime on Friday, I was not able to retrieve it until Monday morning.
That's the problem with e-mail, in that sometimes it gets caught in these filters, especially when it includes links to websites.
Randy Winter
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OK, so I re-sent it and said/asked, "No comment?"
Here's his reply to THAT:
"What's the point? You obviously feel that you are right, and no matter what I write will change that.
Randy Winter Director of News & Operations
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No question about why things of national importance are kept from those who do not have the motivation to KNOW what is going on in the world around them.

Brian Stuckey · 2 years ago

The American people are not interested in losing wars. Most Americans have only one objective in time of war, and that is winning.

CurtJ · 2 years ago

The Neo Cons infesting the Executive Branch are spending billions of American Taxpayer dollars for the Neo con owned New Media and Communications Conglomerates to print and report news favorable to the Neo Con agenda being carried out by the Bush Administration and to bury, obfuscate, lie, tell half truths about news unfavorable to the Bush Administration. This is called Propagandaagainst the very people funding it.
The only way to get Non Partisan news reporting is to break up all the Conglomerates ownership in companies and to start regulating them.
These Neo Con owned Conglomerates were deregulated when the Republican Neo cons were elected.
These TREASONOUS Neo Cons are in "Conflict of Interest" and "Collusion" with the Bush Administration, the Republican and Democratic legislators and even with the Neo Con U.S. Supreme Court Justices.

Pam Myyers · 2 years ago

Looks like the intent of the protest was to get in the media.

Hint: Get some real leaders who have made contributions to society instead of 60's retreads aiming for the old glory days.

Also, try making more sense than noise. Noise never translates to print.

As for the purpose of a newspaper being profit.. I agree. I also wonder how they plan to do that with so little substance left.

CSaction.org · 2 years ago

The rally in Denver was within sight of the Denver Post building, which is prominent in the documentary I shot, which can be seen on Csaction.org and YouTube. The marchers went down to Coors Field and on the way stood in front of the Post building chanting for 10 minutes. Hard to miss unless you just don't want to report news that represnets the majority. After cheerleading for this war, I guess the mainstream media is a bit embarrassed by the mistake and is now too busy SELLING the next war. They trade in the same thing as the neocons, FEAR. War makes good copy, sells ink and TV time, and fear is the reason. The neocons could not have sold this crock to the the people without the media cheerleaders.

hope · 2 years ago

I am happy that this is getting a great response. Check out CS Action for all of your latest news. The Indy is going down the drain and selling out, too. Utube is great because you can find everything, and there are no viruses.
We protested with 250,000 marchers in New York and it was on a small tiny piece of the New York Times in a small corner that was barely visible.
There are other ways to be heard. On the internet, through pre-event listings, through letters to the editor before and after the event. Blogs, on-line petitions and what else? Discussions at your local justice groups, or all night prayer vigils at your church. Food always brings people together. Make a giant peace symbol outside of an office, such as a congressman's, and demand JUSTICE.