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Darrell Todd Maurina
Pulaski County Daily News
FWIW, here's an article on my work about a year ago by “Editor & Publisher” magazine:
I was also a finalist last year, along with reporters from the Washington Post, New York Times, and about 30 other national and regional media, for a national religion newswriting award for my coverage of the successful campaign of a “tea party” Republican who defeated Ike Skelton, the Democratic chairman of the House Armed Services Committee.
https://rna.site-ym.com/?page=2011_winners
I didn't win — if I had won, I might have died of a heart attack due to shock, considering the competition — but that along with the “Editor & Publisher” article should indicate that I might just have a certain amount of credibility.
Not all of us in the media are liberals ;-)
Are you using the term "liberals" as a synonym for "liars?" Here is what I posted, a little while ago, in a parallel thread:
The utter stupidity of this proposal can hardly be exaggerated! Rather than allowing the Government to use deliberate misinformation--or distortions of the truth--to be used domestically, as well as internationally, why not stop the use of any misinformation (i.e., in the form of propaganda), to any civilian population, anywhere.
The strongest approach to anyone, at home or abroad, is that based on Truth. The former Bolshevik regime in the USSR was notorious for their use of propaganda, and what in the long-run was the actual result? They lost all credibility both at home & everywhere else. The German Socialists collapsed in 1945, before Goebbels had become the joke that Pravda became, but he would have eventually achieved the same result. The deliberate use of lies & half-truths will always eventually leave the wrong mark, once enough people realize that the source is not reliable.
But, of course, the Left is all about the denial of reality, the suppression of truth in the pursuit of a make-believe driven new order of things. But these tactics can never be justified by anyone who understands the preeminent importance of Truth, in defense of what is intended to actually encourage, rather than suppress, the best dynamics in the human experience.
I really consider the underlying issue here to come down to two questions; one goes to the moral, the other to the practical; and the answer on each is the same. Truth is both the moral & pragmatic answer for the America we believe in.
William Flax [Truth Based Logic]