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Well, the health care bill moves to the Senate floor. Is it a big deal that a single GOP senator has signed on? I don’t quite understand the importance of that. It’s not like she’s beloved in conservative circles, where she’s long been considered a Rino (Republican in Name Only). Nonethless, I’m sure she used that leverage effectively.
Thoughts on this or other matters?
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richard on October 14 at 7:07 p.m.
It gives Obama the cover he needs … it is a “bi-partisan” bill. As they say, “It is all good.”
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richard on October 14 at 7:41 p.m.
What an interesting turn of events. While most newspapers in this country are suffering a declining readership, the Wall Street Journal just surpassed USA Today as the most read newspaper in the country.
While it's readership grew by 17,000 this summer, raising its readership to 2.2 million, the USA lost 17% of its readers, dropping it to 1.88 million.
it would be too easy, I suppose, to say that the public is getting tired of the sameness of most dailies and their mostly liberal bent; and they are now turning to one of the few dailies that offers more conservative opinion.
Besides, we continually hear those in media pooh-pooh that notion and they say it is the internet that is destroying their readership.
So why does that not apply to the Wall Street Journal? Why aren't people turning away from it and going to the internet for their news?
Kind of interesting, especially since we are in the midst of the most liberal/progressive government we have seen since FDR.
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Arch_Druid on October 14 at 8:52 p.m.
Thought I would throw this in; the Wall Street Journal is pro-business and has the pro-business politics to match. That doesn't mean that the WSJ is any more “conservative” than any other MSM. If it is among the most read newspapers, that means it is only PART of the MSM.
Now for what I just saw on “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.” Seems Senator Al Franken knew all about that KBR employee who was gang raped then shut up in a crate for a while so she couldn't blow the whistle. Then after being returned to the U.S., found she couldn't sue because of the contract that she signed. So Franken set up an amendment regarding any company that received gvt funding such as Haliburton and KBR had and what would enable an employee to do if he or she suffered harm by other company employees. Guess where the GOP lined up? For being a “party of God” group that they are, they should have supported the rape victim. Nope. Congress shouldn't spend its time rewriting these contracts… Yet the same GOP noise machine was all for cutting off ACORN for advising FAKE PROSTITUTES on film. Guess if you are a Haliburton or KBR, you still have the GOP backing. Party of business but not of “family values.”
Which, makes that latest letter from a writer this morning in the S-R venting angrily over that Leonard Pitts, jr editorial where it concerned ACORN and etc.; wonder how she would feel knowing that the GOP she supports will actively support some kind of corruption and anti-values acts as long as it comes from the special interests in THEIR corner? You'd think after 2008 they might have learned something.
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spokelooneh on October 14 at 10:11 p.m.
While the general/financial/political reporting has slipped a bit in recent years (The Financial Times of London is far superior in many ways), the WSJ delivers a superior news “product”. While the editorial attitude is extremely conservative, they also publish the best of the op-eds and contrasting LTE's in all of print media.
USA Yesterday is a joke of a newspaper. Once in awhile they have decent, current story there, but it's rare. They do a good job of providing diverse and fairly long opinions on various religious matters on a regular basis.
I don't think people are buying more subscriptions because of the WSJ's conservative editorial opinions. Near as I can tell, those are free online everyday on Opinion Journal. Much of the straight news reporting, good stuff, IS behind their paywall, and I believe that is what is driving demand. Even in a down industry, there will be some winners.
So far, the WSJ is doing pretty well, though I note with revulsion on the rare times I see their print copy, the large increase in ads including on its front page. My ad blocking software blocks most online ads, so it seems more garish to me when seen in the dead tree version.
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Arch_Druid on October 15 at 6:15 a.m.
Spokelooneh, when I said pro-business with the politics to match, that's what I meant, pro-business. There's a heck of a difference between conservative and pro-business with the politics to match. Mainly because anyone with a conservative point of view would also argue that businesses that seek the assistance of gvt and garner a large percentage of their profits FROM the taxpayers while also selling their products and services TO the taxpayers simply advices that the business special interests are welfare dependent. Let's put it bluntly, there are very few GOP who are actually conservative and the WSJ isn't any more likely to be “conservative.”
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