I am a subscriber to to the Pioneer Press. This is not because it's better than the competition. Clearly, it isn't. No, I subscribe out of a misguided sense of loyalty to my home town paper. However, it's becoming more obvious all the time that this loyalty isn't at all reciprocated. The paper's loyalty is not to its subscribers but to the business community. They've chosen to be a mouthpiece for the group that supplies the advertising, not the group that buys and reads the paper.
The notion that the paper is merely expressing sincerely held beliefs that happen to differ from many of its readers was put to rest by the recent editorial blaming the "gang of four" for the loss of the stem cell researcher at the U. That argument was so ludicrous and put forward with such blatant disregard for the facts as to dispel any doubt that the paper is simply carrying out a vendetta against the council majority. Ultimately, this will be self defeating. Even the business groups they are pandering to will not spend advertising dollars on a paper no-one reads. The PP is in a death spiral. The more circulation they lose, the more they pander. The more they pander, the more circulation they lose. Charlie Swope Ward 1 _____________________________________________ To Join: St. Paul Issues Forum Rules Discussion Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ____________________________________________ NEW ADDRESS FOR LIST: [email protected] To subscribe, modify subscription, or get your password - visit: http://www.mnforum.org/mailman/listinfo/stpaul Archive Address: http://www.mnforum.org/mailman/private/stpaul/
