Talk of Lufkin

By Mark Kelley

August 13, 2008 4:57 PM | Link to this

I hope the paper is purchased by an organization with a much more centrist view toward politics and business. The editorial page and the op ed, with rare exception, have been to the left of Pravda for way too many years.

Does anyone have Rupert Murdock’s phone number?

By Former Lufkinite

August 13, 2008 5:07 PM | Link to this

The thing I find interesting is they aren’t selling the Austin American Statesman, which is of course one of the most liberal newspapers in the country. Shows you where Cox’s bent lies.

By petshopdad

August 13, 2008 5:13 PM | Link to this

To Former Lufkinite: They are selling the Austin paper.

http://www.statesman.com/news/content/news/stories/local/08/14/0814statesman.html

By Jerry Jordan

August 13, 2008 6:19 PM | Link to this

Good luck guys. Of all the major newspaper companies out there Cox was one of the better ones. Keep your fingers crossed that whichever company acquires the LDN that they will treat you well. To all the people claiming LDN is too liberal, I am sure that you also feel that FOX News is “Fair and Balanced”.

By John

August 13, 2008 8:21 PM | Link to this

. Putting the paper up for sale is just another way of saying they are not making any money.

By sara

August 14, 2008 2:49 AM | Link to this

I beleive the major problem for the US newspaper industry is the overuse of AP. AP is far left and boring. It is like a parrot; you know what they are going to say (and leave out) before you even finish reading the article.

Save money by elementing the parrot.

By Jobe

August 14, 2008 9:34 AM | Link to this

Putting the paper up for sale means that it is one of the only ones in Cox’s a** that is actually worth buying.

Community papers are the only ones left that are still self sustaining.

Lufkin should own the paper. Arthur Temple, where are you when we need you most?

By former_lufkinite01

August 14, 2008 11:08 AM | Link to this

This can only mean bad things for the news business. As much as I wasn’t much of a fan of Cox as a company (having been employed by them, I wasn’t crazy about how they treated employees) I felt they did a good job on the actual news angle of the business, more so than the conservative leaning Donrey/Stephens media group, Fox News, etc.

By former_lufkinite01

August 14, 2008 11:21 AM | Link to this

By the way, Former Lufkinite #2, Cox is selling the Statesman. http://www.statesman.com/news/content/news/stories/local/08/14/0814statesman.html

By luna

August 14, 2008 11:26 AM | Link to this

the paper sucks so shut it down

By Mark Kelley

August 14, 2008 12:09 PM | Link to this

Jerry,

Fox News has prospered while others (MSNBC, major networks) have contracted because Fox gives people the product they want. If Fox is so wrong, why is CNN moving so much more to the right?

Newspaper are just like any other manufactured product. If it doesn’t supply a need, it won’t be purchased.

The basic problem with newspapers is that they are often the product of people who don’t understand business. Part of my misspent youth was occupied by years as a reporter for a daily newspaper and a TV station. Journalists, at least back then, were some of the least educated people coming from college….not that you needed a college degree to be a reporter. The pay was low. The result was predictable.

People who have never run a business, made a payroll, manufactured a good, or lived on straight commission do not comprehend the true nature of business or the insanity of government-managed economies.

Most journalists are liberals and as such refuse to accept that with rare exception the free market solves problems faster and at less cost than the government.

By Mark Kelley

August 14, 2008 12:09 PM | Link to this

Jerry,

Fox News has prospered while others (MSNBC, major networks) have contracted because Fox gives people the product they want. If Fox is so wrong, why is CNN moving so much more to the right?

Newspaper are just like any other manufactured product. If it doesn’t supply a need, it won’t be purchased.

The basic problem with newspapers is that they are often the product of people who don’t understand business. Part of my misspent youth was occupied by years as a reporter for a daily newspaper and a TV station. Journalists, at least back then, were some of the least educated people coming from college….not that you needed a college degree to be a reporter. The pay was low. The result was predictable.

People who have never run a business, made a payroll, manufactured a good, or lived on straight commission do not comprehend the true nature of business or the insanity of government-managed economies.

Most journalists are liberals and as such refuse to accept that with rare exception the free market solves problems faster and at less cost than the government.

By David Lamon

August 14, 2008 4:30 PM | Link to this

I felt like it was coming because of the far left views of the newspaper. Nearly every left leaning newspaper in America is faultering unless you happen to live in San Francisco. Liberal left leaning talk shows regular bust because they stray so far from the average American’s conservative views.

Personally, I quit taking the paper a long time ago because of their force-feeding us with people like Tommie Lee and Louis Cable, which are both God hating men that like to attack Christians. Very few conservative Christians get their articles printed because of the paper’s left wing liberal stance. The paper has a long history of supporting the far-left candidates in elections and so what goes around comes around. I hate to see Lufkin and surrounding area without a paper so I hope someone will take it and use a fair and balanced approach to news gathering, allow more conservative columnist and opinion writers. There can be no doubt we need a newspaper but this one has like other left-wing liberal outlets has run its course.

By David Lamon

August 14, 2008 4:30 PM | Link to this

I felt like it was coming because of the far left views of the newspaper. Nearly every left leaning newspaper in America is faultering unless you happen to live in San Francisco. Liberal left leaning talk shows regular bust because they stray so far from the average American’s conservative views.

Personally, I quit taking the paper a long time ago because of their force-feeding us with people like Tommie Lee and Louis Cable, which are both God hating men that like to attack Christians. Very few conservative Christians get their articles printed because of the paper’s left wing liberal stance. The paper has a long history of supporting the far-left candidates in elections and so what goes around comes around. I hate to see Lufkin and surrounding area without a paper so I hope someone will take it and use a fair and balanced approach to news gathering, allow more conservative columnist and opinion writers. There can be no doubt we need a newspaper but this one has like other left-wing liberal outlets has run its course.

By David Lamon

August 14, 2008 4:31 PM | Link to this

I felt like it was coming because of the far left views of the newspaper. Nearly every left leaning newspaper in America is faultering unless you happen to live in San Francisco. Liberal left leaning talk shows regular bust because they stray so far from the average American’s conservative views.

Personally, I quit taking the paper a long time ago because of their force-feeding us with people like Tommie Lee and Louis Cable, which are both God hating men that like to attack Christians. Very few conservative Christians get their articles printed because of the paper’s left wing liberal stance. The paper has a long history of supporting the far-left candidates in elections and so what goes around comes around. I hate to see Lufkin and surrounding area without a paper so I hope someone will take it and use a fair and balanced approach to news gathering, allow more conservative columnist and opinion writers. There can be no doubt we need a newspaper but this one has like other left-wing liberal outlets has run its course.

By David Lamon

August 14, 2008 4:31 PM | Link to this

I felt like it was coming because of the far left views of the newspaper. Nearly every left leaning newspaper in America is faultering unless you happen to live in San Francisco. Liberal left leaning talk shows regular bust because they stray so far from the average American’s conservative views.

Personally, I quit taking the paper a long time ago because of their force-feeding us with people like Tommie Lee and Louis Cable, which are both God hating men that like to attack Christians. Very few conservative Christians get their articles printed because of the paper’s left wing liberal stance. The paper has a long history of supporting the far-left candidates in elections and so what goes around comes around. I hate to see Lufkin and surrounding area without a paper so I hope someone will take it and use a fair and balanced approach to news gathering, allow more conservative columnist and opinion writers. There can be no doubt we need a newspaper but this one has like other left-wing liberal outlets has run its course.

By David Lamon

August 14, 2008 4:58 PM | Link to this

I expected this to happen because it is happening in several places in America. Multi-national corporations own most of the newspapers in America and although most of them may be successful running a business at the average American’s expense they don’t know squat about how to communicate with the average American. They pinned all their efforts in reaching out to the people they felt shared their socialistic viewpoints, which obviously is far fewer than they estimated. These same corporations are the ones that have a hand in destroying the middle-class of America by shipping manufacturing jobs overseas and pushing for open border policy, which brings in latinos to work for much less than Americans will. The affects of this is forcing Americans with little or limited education to go into a retail market that pays much less than manufacturing and demands they receive subsistance from the rest of the taxpayers. What they have actually done is to make the general public provide the benefits through taxation for the average American they once supplied. This is what I mean by their socialistic ideology. I don’t blame these Americans because they are only trying to survive and provide for their families, I blame these same greedy corporations. Unless stopped, the ingredients for a dictatorship by wiping out the middle-class will soon be the order of the day. With Greece being the world’s first true democracy, Aristotle recognized long ago a democracy can’t exist without a strong middle-class.

The repalling result is we have built China and India into emerging giants and China in particular is a country that believes America is the greatest threat in the world. At the same time they are using U.S. dollars to build superstate status and a high-tech military that the Bill Clintons of the world have provided. By the way, did anyone see the worth of the Clintons since he left the presidency; over 105 million dollars and this in spite of the fact he owed millions for defending his infidelity. Where did he acquire all this wealth, Hum?

Personally, I quit taking the paper long ago in protest of their leftwing agenda. This local paper repeatedly promoted opinion writers Tommie Lee and Louis Cable of whom both are anti-Christians haters and spend their writing efforts toward the same. Conservatives waste their time trying to get the paper to print their story in comparison with the liberals and the columnist they support are also of the far left. This local paper has a history of supporting left-wing candidates and in general follows suit with their owners of pushing a socialist agenda. I reckon its true “what comes around goes around”.