The state’s largest daily, which Gov. Janet Mills has paid to produce rose-colored “news,” is upset with websites publishing “politicized” content.
Hard to believe if it weren’t in print.
In a piece Wednesday, the Press Herald catalogued online publications it claims “do no original reporting.”
The paper classifies the material as “pink slime.”
“The decline of local news has created a void, which has encouraged political operatives to step in and pretend they’re delivering local news,” Michael Socolow, professor of journalism and media ethics at the University of Maine, was quoted.
Socolow, of course, meant to allege the decline of newspapers, not news.
News is the thing the Portland Press Herald is still leaving to outlets such as The Maine Wire, growing due to its actual reporting.
Dylan Tusinski, the reporter who was assigned to write about “pink slime,” at least gave credit to The Maine Wire for “original reporting.”
But when the Maine daily lumps it into a story about pink slime, well, the inference is pretty obvious.
Almost as obvious as the number of Facebook followers reading the two outlets:
√ Maine Wire: 219,000
√ Portland Press 94,000
The Portland Press Herald’s reported concerns about pink slime come exactly a year after the Maine Press Association warned its members “beware of pink slime.”
The association, which represents legacy newspapers – including the Portland Press Herald – compared pink slime to “conservative” journalism.
See how this works?
Aww, the lying propagandists are butt-hurt because less people are partaking of or believing their lying propaganda. GFY libtards, GFY.