The Demise of Newspapers

The San Francisco Chronicle is the latest newspaper faced with the possibility of expiring.

I haven't subscribed to a newspaper in years. I got tired of their liberal biases while claiming to be neutral news reporters. There is no way an editor, judge, jury, or TV news producer can keep their biases from slanting what they decide to present.

I never liked the major newspapers' endorsements of candidates or referendums. To their undecided and uninformed readers it seemed to give an air of authenticity to those endorsements and saved the unsophisticated voters the trouble of studying the candidates and issues.

I can't wait to see the demise of TV news the way newspapers are fading away. This is already starting. No longer do network anchors draw millions of viewers the way Walter Cronkite did. Competition for TV news is on the Internet. Internet news and Twitter news is available to people that are not near a TV.

Twenty four hour TV news is desperate for content. They show hours of boring news, repeated. They show hours of the new religion, The State, and the State's enforcers. The recent sermonizing before Congress by President Obama was an orgiastic event by the State rulers that was covered by a dozen TV channels.

Technology changes us more than government policies change us.

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." Arthur C. Clarke

Charles Tolleson