RIP Richard Mellon Scaife

Says the guy constantly making claims that he never bothers to support, including the ones on this very thread.

 

So, let me get this straight: We are in broad agreement that over the course of American history, newspaper owners have used their papers to "push their own agenda". Is that correct?

Does that include the Ochs-Sulzbergers, the Grahams, the McCormicks, the Bancrofts and the Chandlers at some point in the past? If so, can you pinpoint the date when they stopped using their papers to "push their own agenda"?

And, let's not pretend this is ancient history either. The Ochs-Sulzbergers still control the Times. The Grahams and Bancrofts only recently sold their papers. And you don't have to go back very far to a time when the the McCormicks, and the Chandlers still owned their respective papers.

I also think it's funny that there seems to be broad agreement that folks like Murdoch and Scaife most certainly do/did own papers for the purpose of "pushing their own agenda" yet, you get alarmed at the suggestion that others do the same thing? Why?

Finally, even folks who have recently moved into newspaper ownership like John Henry, or Jeff Bezoz, or a guy like Warren Buffett, who's owned them for a longer period, are not immune from this either.

Do you think their motives are purely altruistic?

 

The claim that millionaire/billionaire families that own newspapers use them to "push their own agenda" need to be proven?

LOL.

Is there a single one that doesn't have an editorial page?

What's the point of an editorial page, and political endorsements, if not to "push an agenda"?