Sunday, September 29, 2013

Question: How Stupid Is Brian Greenspun?

On a scale of 0-10, how stupid is the editor of the Las Vegas Sun, Brian Greenspun?  My guess is that he would rank in the negative numbers.
Start with the first paragraph: The bottom line of the news business should not be confused with the profit line of businesshttp://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2013/sep/29/when-competition-news-drives-quality-readers-win/
Well, he just shot down his entire argument about the newspaper business.  If profit is a nasty word in the newspaper business, then start your own newspaper and see how far you get without making a profit.  And you certainly, you wouldn't need the LVRJ to run your newspaper.
I admit it has been difficult to define the real import of the JOA and what it means to the people of Las Vegas. Until today, that is.
The Founding Fathers came up with the Bill of Rights to provide citizens the security they needed from problems that would certainly result if the people in government were left unchecked. The First Amendment — which many say is the most important one — guarantees the right of free speech and freedom of the press.
The Founding Fathers did not say that there had to be at least 2 newspapers in every community to provide a liberal and a conservative voice.  If that is the case, most cities would need a conservative newspaper to balance the reporting of the liberal newspaper.
The sad fact is that Brian Greenspun is a liberal who is about to lose his liberal forum, that is bought and paid for by the reads and advertisers of the conservative newspaper, the Las Vegas Review Journal.
If money was the issue, then Greenspun should get his liberal buddies and buy advertisements in the Las Vegas Sun.
But because Greenspun is a liberal, he expects he should get everything for free, just like an Obama voter. 
Because Greenspun is a liberal, he is running to the courts to solve is problems instead of working things out, just like an Obama voter or the ACLU.
Because Greenspun is a liberal, his policies running the Las Vegas Sun are failing, just like President Obama and his has failed the United States and it's citizens.

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