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Contrary to Belief, The Examiner allows the Left to post stories

by Karl Gotthardt - albertacowpoke | November 28, 2009 at 07:01 am

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Much has been made by NP writers on the intend of the Examiner after the bought NP. Some of the stories brought out some valid points and concerns of those of us that write here.

This morning while surfing through twitter stories, I found the one highlighted below that was in the Examiner, National Edition.

The story criticizes President Obama for his anticipated heavy spending on America's wars instead of concentrating on the high unemployment in the United States.

The story seems to indicate to me that the Examiner is also about free speech where all sides can contribute. It may be true that most of the stories are oriented toward the political right, however it would also appear that censuring writers is not the norm there.

Washington Blog is one of my favorite sources for revealing facts and analysis in economics and policy. The recent post, Instead of fixing the US Economy or creating jobs for AMERICANS, Obama will spend the money in Afghanistan and Iraq, is so comprehensively brilliant in putting together the documentation that our wars are fraudulent and damaging to our economy, I’m reprinting it for you.

Needless to say, I recommend following Washington’s Blog for such insightful writing! Without further ado: America is in the most severe unemployment crisis since - and perhaps including - the Great Depression.

And yet Obama, like Bush, has done virtually nothing to create more jobs. Instead, they both gave trillions to the biggest banks (who are not loaning it out to the little guy) and for waging wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.

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nanute

at 07:44 on November 28th, 2009

ACP, I don't think the concern is that the left is not allowed to publish. The bigger concern is a excessive concentration of media power by right wing conservative owners. Here is a reasonable assessment of the new owner of the Examiner. Yes, the author of this blog post is a liberal, and progressive. It doesn't diminish the content of the argument, in my opinion.

Billionaire Populisim

Karl Gotthardt - albertacowpoke

at 07:55 on November 28th, 2009

nanute I know all about the owner of the Examiner and NowPublic. This story talks to authors of this site that were concerned about how their freedom of speech would be constrained by the new ownership.

The issue of who owns certain media outlets is another issue. Other than talk radio and FOX, I see more left leaning media. FOX and talk radio is kept alive by ratings.