Moveon.org is upset

[Montgomery Burns]

There was recently 500 people laid off at the NY Times and their affiliates, and now there are 85 more are being laid off at the LA Times. As we all know, the left insists that the MSM is biased to the right. After all, the media is owned by corporations--and ALL corporations are run by Republicans. Not ONE is run by Democrats.

The only reason why they use forged TANG memos from "Lucy Ramirez", write bogus stories about 380 tons of Weapons of Medium Destruction disappearing under the nose of the US military, lie about Bush serving "plastic" turkeys to the troops, have their news directors issue memos to their staff encouraging them to slant their coverage for Kerry, lie about a Bush rally booing Clinton's name when Bush wished him well on his upcoming heart surgery (thank you to Fox News for having the audio tape that proved this was a lie), completely ignore the Swift Boat Vets--then after finally acknowledging them--constantly refer to them as the "discredited" Swift Boat Vets, put very Bush-basher with a book to sell on 60 Minutes, the fact that the media investigates businesses and encourages more govt intervention....is simply because the rightwing media is trying to disprove their bias. They're so clever.

Anyways, Moveon.org (we knew nothing about the Bush=Hitler ads we ran--*wink wink, nudge nudge*) is upset about the layoffs at the LA Times. They claim that the layoffs threaten the LA Times' ability to deliver "strong watchdog journalism" (which is NOT code for Bush-bashing--*wink wink, nudge nudge*).

What is Moveon.org doing to help this situation?

1) Encouraging their supporters to take out subscriptions to help the Times' ailing numbers? Er, no.

2) Taking out ads in the Times to help them? Um, no.

They're organizing an internet petition.

LA Times shareholders, be damned. We're Moveon.org. Fear our internet petition.

Regarding #2--after their latest debacle, I can see why they are leery about taking out anymore ads. They yanked their "bring the troops home" ad off CNN a few days ago.

Why?

Because they had British soldiers in the ad. The military was laughing at them for not knowing the difference between US and British uniforms.

So how did Moveon.org respond to this error?

By doing what any ethical organization would do: They photoshopped a pair of pants on the British soldier who was wearing shorts in the ad (US soldiers do not wear shorts) and darkening the ad so that it was difficult to see that it was British soldiers, not US soldiers

Finally, they gave up and yanked the ad from their website. I tell ya, the far left is pure comedy gold.

[sharkman]

And of course the fact that newspapers' subscription numbers have been sliding downward for years has nothing to do with the lay-offs.

Here's another one for you, although you may have heard. About a month ago, USAToday had a picture on their website of Condi Rice. There was an odd look to the photo since they photoshopped it and gave Condi demon eyes. After much outrage they came out with a statement on how there was an error in the process that got missed blah blah blah it wasn't our fault blah blah photo was hard to blah blah...

Several photo professionals contacted the blogger Michele Malkin with the expert opinion that there was no way you could do that by accident, the effect would show up on the whole photo, not just her eyes. So pathetic. But no, there's no bias, those are groundless accusations!

[tml12]

There was recently 500 people laid off at the NY Times and their affiliates, and now there are 85 more are being laid off at the LA Times.  As we all know, the left insists that the MSM is biased to the right.  After all, the media is owned by corporations--and ALL corporations are run by Republicans.  Not ONE is run by Democrats.

The only reason why they use forged TANG memos from "Lucy Ramirez", write bogus stories about 380 tons of Weapons of Medium Destruction disappearing under the nose of the US military, lie about Bush serving "plastic" turkeys to the troops, have their news directors issue memos to their staff encouraging them to slant their coverage for Kerry, lie about a Bush rally booing Clinton's name when Bush wished him well on his upcoming heart surgery (thank you to Fox News for having the audio tape that proved this was a lie), completely ignore the Swift Boat Vets--then after finally acknowledging them--constantly refer to them as the "discredited" Swift Boat Vets, put very Bush-basher with a book to sell on 60 Minutes, the fact that the media investigates businesses and encourages more govt intervention....is simply because the rightwing media is trying to disprove their bias.  They're so clever. 

Anyways, Moveon.org (we knew nothing about the Bush=Hitler ads we ran--*wink wink, nudge nudge*) is upset about the layoffs at the LA Times.  They claim that the layoffs threaten the LA Times' ability to deliver "strong watchdog journalism" (which is NOT code for Bush-bashing--*wink wink, nudge nudge*).

What is Moveon.org doing to help this situation?

1)  Encouraging their supporters to take out subscriptions to help the Times' ailing numbers?  Er, no.

2)  Taking out ads in the Times to help them?  Um, no.

They're organizing an internet petition. 

LA Times shareholders, be damned.  We're Moveon.org.  Fear our internet petition.   

Regarding #2--after their latest debacle, I can see why they are leery about taking out anymore ads.  They yanked their "bring the troops home" ad off CNN a few days ago. 

Why?

Because they had British soldiers in the ad.  The military was laughing at them for not knowing the difference between US and British uniforms.

So how did Moveon.org respond to this error? 

By doing what any ethical organization would do:  They photoshopped a pair of pants on the British soldier who was wearing shorts in the ad (US soldiers do not wear shorts) and darkening the ad so that it was difficult to see that it was British soldiers, not US soldiers 

Finally, they gave up and yanked the ad from their website.  I tell ya, the far left is pure comedy gold.   

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ARE YOU SERIOUS???

That is NOT funny...

[Shady]

Here's another one for you, although you may have heard. About a month ago, USAToday had a picture on their website of Condi Rice. There was an odd look to the photo since they photoshopped it and gave Condi demon eyes

Yeah, that was a bad one. Let's not forget about the flashing X over VP Cheney a couple of weeks ago on CNN. Apparently is was just a "malfunction". Sort of like the one Janet Jackson had I guess.

[tml12]

Here's another one for you, although you may have heard. About a month ago, USAToday had a picture on their website of Condi Rice. There was an odd look to the photo since they photoshopped it and gave Condi demon eyes

Yeah, that was a bad one. Let's not forget about the flashing X over VP Cheney a couple of weeks ago on CNN. Apparently is was just a "malfunction". Sort of like the one Janet Jackson had I guess.

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I do remember that Shady...

I don't remember those accidents happening under Clinton...

[Montgomery Burns]

There is more to this story. The LA Times fired Bush Derangement Syndrome sufferer Marxist op-ed writer Robert Scheer and replaced him with rightwing op-ed writer Jonah Goldberg of the National Review.

Looks like the LA Times is attempting to do something to couter their falling circulation numbers

Barbara Streisand is upset and has cancelled her subscription to the LA Times. And, of course, the loonies at IndyMedia are doing what they do best--they're protesting in front of the LA Times (do any of these "progressives" have jobs?).

Plus, the George Soros-funded MediaMatters.org is encouraging its readers to email the LA Times to express their displeasure at bowing to "rightwing pressure".