the New York Times has slipped from first place to 6th place !





the New York Times has slipped from first place to 6th place !
One thing I've always been curious about is how American papers are presented in foreign countries. Here in the U.S., its common for the media to refer to a foreign paper as being "liberal" or "conservative" or stating that it alligned with a particular party. Does the foreign press do that to our papers? Do Germans news stories start out, "the liberal newspaper, the New York Times reported today...."?
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Western Europe and 'conservative' have traditionally been mutually exclusive LOL. However, this is slowly changing in Holland, the UK, parts of Germany etc.
Actually, Western Europe has a very long and robust tradition of partisan newspapers. Take Britain, for example: leaving aside the tabloids, there is the right-wing Daily Telegraph, the left-wing Guardian, the establishment Times, and The Independent, a fantastic paper that regularly lives up to its name. You'll find a similar level of ideological diversity in France and Germany.
In North America, by contrast, there aren't many partisan newspapers outside major media centres such as New York, Washington and Chicago. Most cities in the United States and Canada are one- or two-newspaper towns whose press is characterized more by a mushy mediocrity than any particular political slant. If you ever wanted an illustration of Tocqueville meant by the tyranny of the majority, the American newspaper business would be a good start.
An interesting thing about Canada is that its newspapers are considerably more right-wing than its population. Virtually all the newspapers in our country are controlled by four conglomerates, a couple of them headed by neo-con ideologues. Over the past 15 years or so, the careers of reporters and columnists who had conservative or libertarian credentials have been fast-tracked, while left-wing heretics got shunted aside. The result is that Canada is a liberal country with virtually no liberal newspapers (the Toronto Star being the one conspicuous exception).
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