Let's say you own a business and have been alarmed about how many customers you've lost during the past few years. You listen to what your customers tell you, read what they say about you on Internet forums, and perhaps even conduct a survey to find out what you're doing wrong and how you can improve to win back your lost customers.
You do those things, that is, if you're a sane, rational and reasonable person, and not a delusional pompous ass. If you're the latter, you give your customers the finger (possibly figuratively and literally) and condemn them for being too stupid to recognize what a great product you have and failing to patronize your business.
The stupidity and hubris of the latter scenario is just what the lamentable Newsweek did with a recent cover story titled, "Why Are Obama's Critics So Dumb?" This sorry excuse for a magazine is but a shell of its former self, hemorrhaging readers, ad revenues and dollars. Yet instead of trying to give people what they want and obviously are not getting, the bozos at Newsweek effectively gave the American public the finger. Obama's such an incredibly effective and wonderful president; you folks are just dim bulbs, too dense to appreciate what you've got. Can you believe this crap?
As we've known for several years (even long before Bernard Goldberg wrote "Bias" a decade ago), the mainstream news media is corrupt, compromised and an absolute joke when it comes to objectivity and substance. They carry the Democrats' water, and spend WAY too much time and energy focusing on inane Hollywood types and other tabloid trash.
Major newspaper circulations have taken a nose-dive, these publications are hemorrhaging jobs and money, and many of them have a diminished physical presence (i.e., the paper version). Some newspapers don't even publish a paper version more than three or four times per week.
Network news also has fallen on hard times, with ratings in freefall and an American public that rejects the notion that TV should tell us what time they're going to give us the news (e.g., at 6:30 p.m. after the local news) and instead seeks its news at the most convenient times and through various technologies.
This American Thinker piece chronicles the downfall of a once great institution. Here's a startling example of just how grave the problem is for our tone-deaf media: The Washington Post has endured a whopping 33% circulation drop (263,000 readers) since 2000, and the Post's advertising revenue has plummeted over 60 percent since 2000.
The clueless scribes of a dying institution perhaps are delusional and certain they can do no wrong. But more than likely, they are just ignorant — ignorant of history, ignorant of what makes America tick, and ignorant of the error of their ways. They're just like lemmings headed over the cliff. Few will miss them when they're gone.
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