FINALLY, someone in the media is waking up to the startling truth that if one continues to shoot one's self in the foot over and over and over again... then sooner or later... one is going to harm one's self!!!

NEWSPAPERS FIGHT NEGATIVE PERCEPTIONS IN NEW ADDS

By JAY REEVES, Associated Press Writer - Tuesday, February 3

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - Several newspaper executives launched a public relations campaign Monday to counter what they call "gloom-and-doom" reports of the industry's demise.

Sure, they admit, times are tough. The economy is bad, the Internet has sucked away advertising dollars and people are losing jobs.

But the 100 million people who read a newspaper the day after the Super Bowl outnumbered the TV audience for the game, the group said in an advertisement that appeared Monday in more than 300 daily newspapers, including The New York Times and The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

With the ads, commentary pieces and a Web site, the industry is painting itself as a vital source of information and the best place for advertisers to sell anything from grapes to a house _ not the dinosaur often portrayed in the media.

"We are our own worst enemy. It's like there's a rule we have to beat ourselves up," said Donna Barrett, a driving force behind the campaign, called the Newspaper Project. "We are still a dominant media, and we don't give ourselves credit for that."...

AT LAST

NOW... do you think we can get this message to the entire MSM, and the loathing liberal left of this country that equates DISDAIN for our country and her objectives in this world as... PATRIOTIC?

Now... there is a "hope" I'm going to "hope" for... indeed.