Dear MAGA: 20190409 Open Topic

GOOD! The McClatchy Company OWNS the News and Observer of North Carolina. A VERY bias paper.
Interesting stuff on the paper from WIKI:

….. The paper has been awarded three Pulitzer Prizes; the most recent of which was in 1996 for a series on the health and environmental impact of North Carolina’s booming hog industry….

Think Senator Burr and his co-sponsoring the Food Safety Modernization Act. The regs bankrupted what small hog farmers we had left and as a result our hog industry is NOW OWNED BY THE CHINESE! WELL DONE SIR! I am sure the ChiComs rewarded you well.
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QUICK QUICK ARCHIVE THIS!!!

…………The voice of white supremacy
In 1894 the paper was sold at auction, this time to a Washington, North Carolina native who was a strong Democratic supporter. Josephus Daniels, with help from Julian S. Carr and other friends, bought the paper. Quickly Daniels refocused the News and Observer to combat rampant corruption and other problems he saw within the state. Put differently by Daniels himself, “The News and Observer was relied upon to carry the Democratic message and to be the militant voice of White Supremacy, and it did not fail in what was expected, sometimes going to extremes in its partisanship.”[3]:39 Daniels believed that “the greatest folly and crime” in U.S. history was giving negros the vote.[3]:37
In the Findings of the Wilmington Race Riot Commission, Daniels is the only name mentioned as a cause of the Wilmington insurrection of 1898,[4]:1 According to historian Helen Edmonds, the paper “led in a campaign of prejudice, bitterness, vilification, misrepresentation, and exaggeration to influence the emotions of the whites against the Negro.”[4]:61 The result was the only successful coup d’état in American history, the overthrow of an elected government by force.
In 1900 he used the paper to support soon-to-be Governor Charles B. Aycock, another white supremacist, during his bid for the office. He also used the paper to advocate female suffrage, workers’ compensation, state industrialization, better roads and crop rotation.[5][not in citation given]
Daniels also used the News and Observer to persuade North Carolina citizens to support the disenfranchisement of blacks in the 1910s and 1920s…..
In 1968, the Daniels family hired Claude Sitton, who had been a correspondent for The New York Times and later an editor there. Serving as the editorial director of the paper, he promoted The News & Observer as a government watchdog and moved the news of the paper away from the personal and partisan stances it had taken under Josephus Daniels. However, its editorials were still often aligned with the Democratic Party. A year later, the Mini Page children’s supplement was created and published. Today, it is one of America’s most widely used children’s newspaper supplements.…

So even WIKI acknowledges the Democrat Party is the party of Black enslavement and supression!

…..Throughout the early 1990s, The News & Observer divested itself of various local newspapers in South Carolina and the North Carolina mountains, and by September 1993, Sunday sales of The News & Observer reached 200,000 for every week. However, the newspaper still owns The Cary News, Chapel Hill News, and the Smithfield Herald among other newspapers….
In 1999, The News & Observer was named one of America’s 100 best newspapers by the Columbia Journalism Review, and one of the 17 best-designed newspapers in the world by the Society for News Design.
With McClatchy’s acquisition of most of Knight Ridder’s properties in 2006, the state’s two largest papers—the N&O and the Charlotte Observer—are now under common ownership.
In September 2008, the News and Observer offered buyouts to all 320 newsroom employees, approximately 40% of its staff, in an effort to cut expenses. Previously the company had shut down its Durham news bureau and in a separate event laid off 70 employees.[9] Layoffs and buyouts have continued since then. [1]
In 2015 the newspaper announced it would sell its facility in downtown Raleigh for redevelopment, which will entail demolition of much of the facility. New presses will be installed at the newspaper’s auxiliary production facility in Garner. Editorial offices will remain in a portion of the redeveloped facility….