Comments on: MORE ON GOV. PALIN’S HEALTH CARE RECORD

By: Joe C.

Joe C. — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 20:08:41 +0000

^Your ignorance burns thermonuclear when you talk about looking to a tabloid magazine sold at supermarket check out lanes “for truth”. Us Weekly is inherently not credible. That’s the point of it. They print a bunch of BS and sell so many copies that it doesn’t matter how much they get sued for lying. When you’re selling just short of 2 million copies a week losing 10,000 copies is nothing. Us Weekly going honest and doing real journalism would be far more damaging to their bottom line than this.

By: JMS

JMS — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 03:05:05 +0000

Hey Joseph C,
Who cares whether the media outlet is large or small, broadcast news or weekly magazine? The point is that there has to be some accountability by publishers to the people they ask to spend their hard-earned money on their publications. The feeling of some in the media that they can say anything they want and get away with it angers those of us who look to all media (large and small) for truth. These magazines are 100% consumer driven, and when the consumers walk away from them and their advertisers, that’s the best demonstration of people demanding accountability. Hit ‘em where it hurts - right smack in the accounts receivable. When this happens, other media outlets take notice. Perhaps they will learn from Us Weekly’s costly mistake. Do you get it now, or do you need me to explain it to you again using smaller, simpler words?

By: Joseph C.

Joseph C. — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 16:33:02 +0000

Dude, Us weekly? That’s the giant backlash against the evil left wing MSM? I’m almost falling out of my chair in laughter here.