Letter: Newspapers may reap what they sow

I’ve been mulling the Appeal-Democrat’s Aug. 26  front-page attack on Wally Herger.  It is common knowledge that newspapers across the nation have steadily been going bankrupt. It is also common knowledge that newspapers across the nation have steadily been going more liberally biased. Cause and effect.

I am here to tell you, most people who buy newspapers have not changed. We still want to be informed and entertained. Not educated and enlightened. We want to look forward to reading the morning paper and not be subject to being “enlightened” by people who just don’t get it.

Yes, television and the Internet have a lot to do with it, but the liberal spokespersons there are also in trouble. People are turning away from them in floods.

I know you don’t want to go broke by all the gimmicks you have tried. My suggestion is you take a look at the A-D content and ask yourselves if the majority of your readers will want to read it. Drop your crusade to make your readership get riled up and think like you do. It might just be that you are wrong.

John Lanigan
Yuba City