Denver Post endorses Bush....

[truthpusher]

no link yet.

[cal04]

1. from ABC News:The Denver Post endorsed Bush on Oct. 23

The Denver Post endorsed Bush on Oct. 23

``On Sept. 11, 2001, this country accepted a great challenge - to inflict justice on terrorists who would attack us and to take every reasonable step to protect our homeland. The task has been pursued with dogged resolution, and we think President Bush is best suited to continue the fight.''

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory?id=192494&CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312

Bush picked up the Denver Post, a switch from Gore in 2000. William Dean Singleton, now the publisher of that paper, is known as a strong Bush supporter. His MediaNews Group also owns the L.A. Daily News, which he allowed to go for Kerry.Kerry now leads Bush 67-57 in endorsements and by about 11.4 million to 6.9 million in circulation of backing papers.

http://www.mediainfo.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000683265

[Rex_Goodheart]

2. The Denver Post's endorsement doesn't even make sense.

If Bush had "accepted a great challenge" to "inflict justice on terrorists" then why has he abandoned inflicting justice on Osama Bin Laden?

And why do the Denver Post and all the other bushrags conveniently ignore all the think tank assessments that our invasion has made the prospects of terrorism WORSE?

[Cha]

4. WElcome to DU, Rex!

My questions, exactly!

[Rex_Goodheart]

5. thanks for the welcome, zidzi...

It's good to see there are other people in this country who think somewhat like myself. :smile:

[truthpusher]

10. I guess the only reason I ever respected the post was because the..

...Rocky Mountain News is such a cheap whore...now we have two whores in a one whore town.

[Skittles]

13. it's what happens when you play the whore role

not a whole lot of logic going on

[Cha]

3. HELLO..EARTH to

Fucking denver post...bush OPENED UP MORE TERRORIST CELLS WITH HIS INVADING IRAQ AND TAKING HIS EYE OFF THE BIN LADEN BALL!

What are they on? :grr:

[Rex_Goodheart]

6. Somebody in Denver needs to write a LTTE

and ask these obvious questions.

Somebody in Cleveland needs to write a LTTE to the Plain-Dealer to ask them why their own editorial board disagrees with their endorsement.

[sonicx]

8. Singleton probably said Kerry can get his non-swing state paper

if bush gets his swing state paper. fair and balanced...

[demzilla]

14. OMG William Dean Singleton was once my boss!

and is like the Typhoid Mary of journalism -- made his living by buying newspapers and then firing large portions of the staff, "slimming them down" financially so that reporters were overburdened and underpaid.

He was a hatchet man for a Texas publisher named Joe Albritton, who broke a union strike at the Paterson, NJ News in the early 1980s. Then he branched out on his own. Before he did I got a job at another paper across the country in California. Then he shows up there one day, having bought the place! So I tell everyone there: start getting your resumes ready. Talk about a very bad cosmic joke!

Singleton would be right at home in the flame pits of journalism hell, along with the Sinclair group.

My sympathies to the citizens of Colorado.

[cal04]

16. No surprise:Bush/Singleton

The Evolution of Dean Singleton

Last June, a leading American newspaper publisher journeyed to Moscow, where, in a gilded conference room deep in the Kremlin, he addressed an audience that included presidents George W. Bush and Vladimir Putin. The occasion was a White House- and Kremlin-sponsored summit of media executives, who will jointly endeavor to remake the Russian media along free-market lines. "A free, independent media is the backbone of democracy," the publisher proclaimed to his guests. "But media cannot be independent without economic viability. And that viability must come without government participation." The publisher was quick to dispense advice on journalism ethics. What happens, he was asked during his visit, if a wealthy advertiser insists that a story be killed? "Listen to me," he intoned, "Never, never, never do we let an advertiser influence our independent press!"

Those sonorous words did not emanate from Donald Graham or Arthur Sulzberger Jr., but from William Dean Singleton, one of the most controversial figures in the newspaper world.In September, President George W. Bush asked Singleton to help invest in Russia's transition into integrating freedom of the press in the country. Singleton says he hopes Russia will be as free in press in 10 years as the United States is now. Singleton says he remembers one incident where Russia's President Vladimir Putin, President Bush and he were sitting in one room talking.

"President Bush turned to Russia's President and said jokingly 'Now Vladimir, do you really want to do this?‚'" Singleton said. "You never understand the importance of the free press until you go to a place that has never had one. A democracy cannot survive unless you have a free press."

http://www.dailyutahchronicle.com/news/2002/11/25/News/Singleton.Speaks.At.Journalism.Conference-332500.shtml

Over the last decade, he has personally discussed the cross-ownership rule with Vice President Al Gore and a long list of senators, including Bob Dole. He has also taken it up with his "good friend," George W. Bush. "I've discussed it with him on numerous occasions," says Singleton. "I've discussed it with his staff. I know the people at the FCC on a first-name basis now."Singleton confidently predicts that the FCC will overturn the restrictions by the middle of 2003. If that happens, he will move quickly to purchase TV stations in the markets where he already has newspapers.


http://www.cjr.org/issues/2003/2/dean-sherman.asp?printerfriendly=yes


John Sturm, NAA’s CEO, said Singleton was there to advise his Russian counterparts in the newspaper industry and President Vladimir Putin on what it takes to build a strong independent press. Sturm said Singleton was an old friend of the president and a person Bush was excited to take along. “Dean’s leadership in this regard and his dedication to this particular project was fabulous. The president was quite effusive of his praise and appreciation for Dean.”

http://www.slweekly.com/editorial/2002/feat_2002-09-05.cfm

[Heidi]

20. Performance review

"On Sept. 11, 2001, this country accepted a great challenge - to inflict justice on terrorists who would attack us. . . we think President Bush is best suited to continue the fight.''


Newsflash to the Denver Post: justice isn't inflicted. It's administered. And if Bush were charged with pursuing justice, he'd be working with the international community to pursue terrorists who posed a reasonable (and provable in an international court) threat to the U.S., instead of pursuing Iraqi oil and alienating our allies.

Being re-elected in tantamount to having a performance review and being allowed to keep your job. The president's performance review is Nov. 2; this shareholder is voting to fire his a$$.

[hlthe2b]

7. I find this devastating.... I am grasping for how to send the strongest

message possible, that just because their owner is a damned f'n Repugnant SOB, they still have a responsibility to their community to be honest.

I will eventually halt my subscription, but I think of the poor old man that delivers every morning at 4 am and I just can't do it now. But, what else can I do?

God Damn these bastard media conglomerates.... We have no free press.

[Cha]

9. That's nice of you to care about the man

that delivers your dp.

Maybe, as one DUer said earlier ..that if it were true that the dp endorses * than they will get thousands of letters..and I have no doubt that the Democrats in Colorado will make it miserable for the brainless wonders at the dp who support the idiot bush.

[hlthe2b]

17. Letters, Emails, AND phone calls I think!

Executives
- William Dean Singleton, chairman and publisher
- Gregory Moore, editor, [phone]

I'm so angry I could spit... but I truly don't want to heap more pain on the "working pawns" as I persue my protest.... Not that Singleton would give a damn, that's for sure. I guess the best we can do is embarrass them publically.

[Doofer]

11. "Denver Post endorses Bush...."

I wonder how much money the Pubbies paid for this crap????

[devilgrrl]

12. Did they endorse Pete Coors too?

Fuck Colorado! :grr:

except for progressive Colorado :-)

[truthpusher]

15. No Salazar (link)

Article Published: Sunday, October 17, 2004
editorial

Ken Salazar for U.S. Senate

Colorado's U.S. Senate contest between Democrat Ken Salazar and Republican Pete Coors carries national implications, but it'd be a showcase in any event because it features two of the state's best-known figures.

Neither man strikes us as a natural-born campaigner, but it has been an engaging race, waged across the state and in a string of acerbic TV ads.

We urge Salazar's election. He has a vigorous and impressive background in public service and has proved his effectiveness in office time and again. He personifies Colorado characteristics of independence, common sense and fiscal moderation, and has the temperament to bridge the partisan divide that has led the current Congress to one impasse after another.


http://www.denverpost.com/Stories/0,1413,36~8382~2468565,00.html

[hlthe2b]

18. No... that's the point... they have largely back all progressive

candidates and issues up to now....

[JLucas4092]

22. Coors is Bombing

Hasn't gotten an endorsment from a real paper yet. Denver Post, Rocky Mountain News and Pueblo's paper all endorsed Salazar. Then again the Grand Junction Daily Sentinel (my former hometown) endorsed Coors. Of course, they would endorse a hardcore repub over Jesus himself.

[donheld]

19. Neither Denver paper is worthless

i haven't taken either for at least 3 years.

[janx]

21. Whelp, they've lost my subscription. This is nothing short of

reckless.