Conservative leaning op-ed pages

For the record, were I a newspaper, I'd be pretty moderate, more liberal on social issues and conservative on fiscal ones.

 

This makes me think of a "30 Rock" line once where one of the characters said matter-of-factly, "I'm a social conservative and a fiscal liberal." It was just funny because so many feel the way you feel that it was funny to hear it the other way.

 

That was Tracy, right? In an interview?

 

It was Liz Lemon's hilariously awful on-again-off-again boyfriend Dennis Duffy when asked by Jack how he would describe himself politically.

 

So in general - if a paper is making money it tends to lean Republican and if it is bleeding red ink it is solid Democratic.

There's a lesson in there somewhere.

 

DAMMIT. I am filled with shame.

And Chris, where on earth do you get that from? What papers on that list are making money? Not the three Media General ones listed, I can tell you that.

 

Ah, don't beat yourself up over it.

Plenty of conservative papers folded eons ago like the Nashville Banner.

 

Never worked for a publisher who wasn't solidly conservative.

 

What papers don't make money? I'm talking real losses and not losses through accounting tricks.

 

There used to be a name for social conservative/fiscal liberal. It was called populism.

 

This.

 

Whenever there's a thread like this, I continue to be amazed by how many journalists have no idea how a newspaper works.