Calling Foul on Powell

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Chris Powell, Managing Editor, Journal InquirerChris Powell, Managing Editor of the Journal-Inquirer and a columnist, struck national nerves  with  his recent column, “Journalism’s Problem May Not Be the Internet”:
Indeed, newspapers still can sell themselves to traditional households — two-parent families involved with their children, schools, churches, sports, civic groups, and such. But newspapers cannot sell themselves to households headed by single women who have several children by different fathers, survive on welfare stipends, can hardly speak or read English, move every few months to cheat their landlords, barely know what town they’re living in, and couldn’t afford a newspaper subscription even if they could read. And such households constitute a rising share of the population.

3 COMMENTS

  1. Ms. McDowell,

    Like Jack N. said in the movie…
    “The Truth…
    You can’t handle to truth!!”

    Neither can most of Ct’s Liberals (& intellectually dishonest, some would say morally bankrupt!).
    Got it…
    Best,
    An Honest Man

  2. Mr. Powell’s reliance on outdated stereotypes of single working mothers shows gross ignorance of the facts. Responsible journalism – like good public policy – must be based on reliable, up-to-date and unbiased data. We invite him to visit our website ctpcsw.com so that he can learn something about what women – regardless of marital status – add to the economy, elected representation and the social fabric. Teresa Younger, executive director, Permanent Commission on the Status of Women