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Originally Posted by vid
The posts above make this post seem really out of place. Who the fuck is Nolan?
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Click link (above) and read by-line. In short Nolan Finley is the Editor of
The Detroit News, the moderate/conservative Detroit daily, who wants to swing the paper (and the state) to the far right.
If he were in Arizona or Oklahoma he would probably be a mainstream republican, in Michigan, however, he is a far right extremist because Michigan republicans would probably, on average, be to the left of Arizona or Oklahoma democrats. Basically, to the average Michigander he is destroying what was once a decent centre-right paper. I think the only reason he got the job (and the News is still around) is because he often writes about how the city of Detroit causes
all problems (crime, poverty, AIDS, Osama bin Laden
), which still plays well with a portion of his suburban readership. Otherwise, his paper has fallen woefully short since all of the moderate republican writers quit or retired and the editorial page was dumped with his craziness and handpicked national right-wing wack-jobs (Michelle Malkin & Thomas Sowell). His major competitor,
The Detroit Free Press, the centre-left Detroit daily, has really beat the News on investigative journalism over the past few years.