Quote of the Day - Decline of the MSM edition

Pistolero brings it:

How does this sort of thing factor into newspaper staffs being slashed? Well, let’s put it like this: if some newspaper hack wanted to see you imprisoned or executed for political advocacy he didn’t agree with, would you take that, let alone pay for the privilege? I sure as hell wouldn’t. If I were a small business owner in a town in whose newspaper this column ran, I would have been on the phone to cancel my advertising so fast it’d make the heads of everyone in the building spin, not just the ad reps.

It's a vicious circle - a lefty slant drives away non-lefties, which drives away advertisers interested in reaching non-lefties, which leads to staff cuts and a sense of being under siege, which leads to more lefty "reporting" out of a bruised sense of what justice should be (according to the leftie reporters, that is).