Do you think that the UNbiased New York Times would give a hefty discount?

Question

to a Pro-Bush, Pro-General Petraeus, Pro-Iraq ad, to the tune of $102,000.00, like they gave to moveon.org?


http://newsbusters.org/blogs/terry-trippany/2007/09/11/moveon-org-gets-discount-rate-betray-us-advocacy-ad

Just curious.

Answer 1

I of course do not know any details about the placement of the advertisement, but, it is quite typical for print media to offer deep 'discounts' to advertisers, very common, done every day.

I think the ad in question is not the debate we should be having in America, the Iraqi situation is horrible, but, the level of discourse has to address the issues of WHAT TO DO instead of blaming Patreous. It just simply is more complicated than this, and, Patreous is a good man, without question.

Answer 2

The best thing America could do is make ALL news public payed. Just watching PBS news is like a clean drink of water, no little puns or cracks, no buring Army trucks with every comment on the wars, no "foolish" pictures of Mr. Bush (head down, mouth open) and when they talk about troop deaths they dont use a High School score board to count it up, they honor them by showing pictures.

PBS is not swaying voters, its just reporting, the way it should allways be, good and bad of it.

Even before Gen. Petraeus set foot in Iraq I knew that the Democowards would walk on him. How can the Democowards say they love our troops when they say what they have said about the commander?

Our troops love Gen. Petraeus and Mr. Bush are they all wrong and evil or is it that we have forgotten the cost of freedom?

Answer 3

LOl! what is it about conservatives that they all whine about the same thing at the same time?
NYT claims that no discount was given to Moveon.org. Conservatives provide no documentation to show that is a lie. That's the end of the story, get it?

Of course you don't, because you can't attack moveon.org on the facts, so you attack other things without proof.

Answer 4

We all know there is no such thing as an unbiased New York Times, but my answer is no. We have freedom of the press, and I am loathe to change the constitution. Even if it were to be done based on equal time, partisan donations would just be forced even more underground, that applies to both parties.

Answer 5

Don't know, but the hard-hitting "news-busters" journalist guy could have called the times for comment instead of going of the list prices, which I believe are always negotiable.

It's called journalism.

P.S. As cons point out all of the time, MoveOn has deep pockets and does a lot of ad buys. Therefore, NYT would be inclined to discount them (they could just as easily placed the ad in Wash. Post). That's called capitalism.

Answer 6

So you think the NYtimes is against the war .
I wonder why .

It ran the stories of the Bush , Cheney, Rumsfeld account of Saddam and his terrorist empire which was going to destroy America .
Then we learn that the Hijackers are from Saudi Arabia and friends of Bush's .

So I think a little reduced pricing for ad space is within the public interest .

Bet Moveon.org gets a tax break for its advertising expenses .

Answer 7

Like they are going to do that. Help out the very political party they bash and deface everyday in their papers. And personally I wouldn't want an ad put in there based off of having principles and dignity.

Answer 8

I laughed when I read the UNbiased part. That was funny! So to answer your question....no they won't give a discount to anything that opposes their far left hippie liberal tree hugging crybaby agenda

Answer 9

No! The New York Times has a long history of refusing to allow conservative ads in their paper at any price.

Big shock a liberal rag paper supports a liberal Democrat organization.

Answer 10

Probably not, but I don't really care. I would not line a cat box with the NYT's.