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The Philadelphia Inquirer has hired Rick Santorum as a columnist. "How can a newspaper like the Philadelphia Inquirer complain about losing readership when, in a major Democratic city, it is providing news analysis from a right-wing Republican who was soundly rejected by voters, who isn't even originally from Philadelphia, and who actually decided to move out of Pennsylvania while representing the state in the U.S. Senate?,” asks David Sirota.

 

The hiring makes absolutely no sense. Santorum is a western Pennsylvanian and arch social conservative who’s waaay more right-wing than the Rockefeller Republicans (or are they Rendell Republicans?) that reside on the Main Line and other Philly suburbs that is the Inquirer’s bread and butter readership.

 

Just another example of a declining mainstream media property going out of its way, or is it out of its mind?, to show how “fair and balanced” it is, while all the while not actually providing its customers with the subject matter, tone or content it actually desires.