Archive for October 16th, 2008

Saw this on Drudge, from Editor and Publisher:

“Tribune Company has given a two-year notice to the Associated Press that its daily newspapers plan to drop the news service, becoming the first major newspaper chain to do so since the recent controversy over new rates began.

Tribune, which owns nine daily papers including the Los Angeles Times and Chicago Tribune, joins a growing list of newspapers that have sought to end AP contracts, or given notice of that, following plans to introduce a new controversial rate structure in 2009. The notice was given earlier this week.

AP Spokesman Paul Colford confirmed the cancellation notice, but said he had no more specifics.”

The article goes on to mention several independent and medium market news papers (one being Minneapolis Star-Tribune) also dropping the AP.

Seems the decline in newspaper circulation is hitting the big papers too. Of course when there’s the Internet, blogs, a 24 hour cable news cycle, and Hoosier Access why would anyone wait until the next morning to find out what went on the day before?

(H/T - Drudge Report)

I am proud to announce Hoosier Access is launching the newest battle against Indiana’s liberal faction called Hoosier Liberals Uncovered (HLU).

HLU is a wiki site that is a collective blogger effort to help shed some light on some of the lesser known information about liberal individuals and organizations in Indiana.  We don’t want the media to give them a free pass.

If you would like to contribute, or have a tip to pass along, you can contact HLU here.

Check out our current featured “dossiers”:

Jill Long Thompson

Dennie Oxley

Baron Hill

John Cardwell

Indiana Home Care Task Force

Last night was it.  It was the final opportunity for John McCain to make his case against Barack Obama.  His last chance to spar one on one with him and take the kind of stand Republicans have been begging for since the first debate and since the economy tanked on us a couple of weeks ago.  This was it.  If John McCain was going to break through and resonate with a majority of voters, Wednesday night was his chance to show he’s the fighter and Maverick he claims to be.

Did he do it?

Outside of praying to the heavens “Dear God I hope so”, McCain did achieve a few things last night that desperately needed to be done.

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Of course, that will be 2012, not in 2008.

To put this in some perspective, it costs $350,000 to run a week of television in every media market in the state of Indiana. Jill Long Thompson, with her $246,000 cash on hand, doesn’t have enough money to be on the air for one five-day workweek, let alone the three full weeks that are left.

Linda Pence, the Democrat candidate for attorney general, has two and a half times as much money on hand ($640,000) than Jill Long Thompson.

Becky Skillman, the Lieutenant Governor, has more than $340,000 cash on hand. If money matters in politics (and as a practical consideration in big races it does), then it would seem that Becky Skillman is more likely to replace Mitch Daniels as governor of Indiana than Jill Long Thompson.

And that transition will be in four years, not this coming January.

Ace debunks the latest Obama lie and emerging media narrative:

The Secret Service has investigated and could find no one who heard it besides the one reporter who claims he heard it.

Yeah well that’s nice but The Narrative must be served. Obama brought it up at the debate and I’ve already seen the clip played on a bunch of news shows. As the old saying goes, “A lie will go round the world while truth is pulling its boots on.”

These rallies are all taped and recorded by countless people. If someone at one of them genuinely shouted this at some point, it’s safe to say that the media would be playing the footage (audio or video) over and over and over again already.

A caller to the Afternoon Edition earlier this week mentioned that Republicans, from the top of the ticket down, need to articulate a conservative vision for this country in the same way Ronald Reagan did. We can debate policy or specific political issues, but Republicans in general have done a poor job articulating the philosophically conservative vision.

Let me use tax cuts as an example. Republicans argue that we need to cut taxes in order to stimulate the economy. Democrats respond with their own public policy arguments. What Republicans need to do is explain why tax cuts, independent of public policy, are the right thing to do.

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