Right-wing newspaper returns!

Last month, I told you that the Bulletin newspaper of Philadelphia ceased publication because this daily broadsheet had so few readers. That incarnation of the Bulletin had begun in 2004, and it was known as a right-wing voice.

But now this voice of far-right extremism is returning next month!

This time, however, it'll be a vastly reduced operation. The Bullshitin will appear in print only weekly. Its daily updates will be on the Internet only. Only paid subscribers to the print edition will be allowed to access the online articles.

I can already tell this is probably going to be an iron blimp. How many subscribers do you think the Bulletin will possibly get?

We all love the marketplace of ideas. But it has to be said that the recent version of the Bulletin was like the Washington Times or the recent incarnation of the New York Sun in that its brand of coverage was smug and classless. It contributed very little - if anything - to journalism.

The Times/Sun/Bulletin modus operandi is to come up with knee-jerk conclusions that are at odds with the facts and with the interests of the American public, and work backwards from that. This reportage is loud, arrogant, and refuses to even accept that a dissenting view exists. It's like a print version of right-wing talk radio. (It was the Sun that ran an unsigned editorial demanding that anyone who opposed the Iraq War be tried for treason.)

All 3 of these papers have had circulation numbers well below other papers in the same city. It's doubtful the Bulletin will have any better numbers in its relaunched form.