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Faced with the decision to get the facts straight, or stick it to Carol Shea-Porter one more time at the cost of its credibility, the Union Leader chooses the latter:
She's right that she didn't specifically say that the Chinese cost her the election. But she's wrong that it was only "right-wing bloggers" (another liberal Bogey Man) who made that connection. The respected Capitol Hill newspaper "The Hill" did, too.
The Union Leader fails to mention that The Hill backed away from both the title of their story and its contents once they did some basic fact-checking of the NHJournal piece they essentially copied. NHJournal, a pretend news site put together by right-wing bloggers.
But the vast majority of Union Leader readers will never know this.
I think this is a good time to front page this comment:
Only a Matter of Time... (4.00 / 5)
The Union Leader's decision to drop the AP may be the latest step in the slow demise of New Hampshire's only statewide newspaper.
As previously noted here, the paper's circulation has dropped from around 100,000 in 1990 to just under 50,000 in 2010. The paper took steps to further limit circulation last spring by combining its Friday and Saturday editions outside the greater Manchester area.
I expect to see the Union Leader continue to pull back from the borders of the state and focus on the compact, affluent and easier-to-cover greater Manchester market management is already selling to advertisers - from Derry and Merrimack north to Goffstown and Hookett. The switch from AP to the Reuters/McClatchy tag team will save money but will inevitably leave the UL unprotected on breaking local news stories around the state, the kind of local news that motivates casual readers on the Seacoast, in the Upper Valley, in Keene and Conway to grab a copy of the UL off the rack at their local store.
Dead trees, ink and the fuel and personnel costs of reporting the news and distributing the paper across the state are becoming more unsustainable every month. The Union Leader, like papers everywhere, knows the future is digital - but has no idea how to monetize its electronic incarnation.
So what we have here is a race between the business and editorial elements of the paper - will there be any journalism left to sell by the time the Union Leader figures out how to sell it?
by: Tim Ashwell @ Wed Dec 29, 2010 at 09:25:51 AM EST
