Now it shines for none!

This is yet another entry in the dinosaur media deathwatch - and I'm not very sorry to report it, because it involves a newspaper that didn't contribute shit to serious news coverage in the first place.

The modern incarnation of the New York Sun was founded in 2002 but took its name from an earlier paper. The new paper's slogan: "It shines for all." But the new daily broadsheet quickly proved it wasn't exactly a respectable paper.

Like the Washington Times, the new Sun was a particularly shrill voice for the Far Right. The Sun was one the media's leading cheerleaders for Bush's illegal Iraq War. Also like the Washington Times, it was read avidly by right-wing insiders, which gave it influence much greater than its laughably weak circulation numbers.

The skimpy scumbag rag had so little respect for freedom of speech that in 2003 it published an unsigned editorial declaring that anyone who dared to protest against the war should be prosecuted for treason.

The intolerant Sun also practiced extreme right-wing advocacy on economic issues - and, like Campus Report, was bigheaded about all of its causes.

As evidence of the Sun's lack of objectivity, its editor Seth Lipsky once said, "I don't believe in journalists having 'responsibility.'" In his book 'The Republican Noise Machine', David Brock said, "The Sun has received universally bad reviews for sloppy and biased journalism."

Recently I heard that the New York Sun might soon face its demise. The paper threatened to fold at the end of September if it didn't get more backing.

I hadn't heard of whether the Sun met this deadline, so today I looked up its Wikipedia entry. Guess what? The Sun shines no longer!

The bird cage liner published its final edition last Tuesday, September 30. It went out with a whimper. It took 6 days for me to even find out the Sun was gone!

The media in a democratic society is supposed to offer a marketplace of ideas. Well, the marketplace of ideas spoke - and the New York Sun lost out. This blog lives on, while the Sun set without anyone noticing.

The lesson from this is that the public has little appetite for self-righteous right-wing propaganda like that the Sun provided. The Sun was an oozing, dripping furuncle, and the public saw it for what it was.

(Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Sun)