Majority supports Bush on terrorism (HEADLINE on BUSH Poll changed)

Your post is awesome! You have encouraged me to write this.

The press has an awesome responsibility as guardians of the truth. Somehow they have forgot their role in a free republic and have abused their trust with an attempt to pander to an audience they think will bring them economic success. However, in that effort, they paint themselves in a corner and what the public sees as news will eventually see it as biased and cause problems very costly to society. It is hard to regain that trust once it has been lost; especially, when there are negative consequences. A free people want the truth and will seek those with whom they trust with the truth. It is with truth that they can answer the real world problems of society.

Take what is happening in the Seattle area where I live. Currently, the Seattle Times and the Seattle P-I, in order to survive, have been operating under a Joint Operating Agreement which allows both papers to share each others' facilities. Because of the economic downturn with the decline of Boeing's' footprint, the Seattle Times expects a loss of $7.7 million for the year 2004. This is causing The Seattle Times to consider backing out of its JOA and letting the Seattle P-I go out of business. Seattle will then be a one newspaper town. A healthier readership may have softened the economic blow of Boeing's shift out of the Northwest--I like many refuse to subscribe to either of these "liberal rags." However, even with their loss of readership, their editorial bias has caused other more damaging consequences: an economic climate that has reduced advertising revenue.

A major consequence of bias created a climate that is driving Boeing out of the Northwest. When both the Seattle Times and the Seattle P-I promoted the heavy-handed tactics of the Boeing Machinists Union to reach deeper into the pockets of the Boeing Company, Boeing looked for cheaper workers elsewhere. Neither paper seemed willing to alert anyone of the consequences of Boeing union workers running up the benefit package tab to the max. The same problem went toward the taxation and regulatory tactics of state and local government. Both papers refused to spell out the consequences of governmental taxation and the huge fines against Boeing. This would conflict with what they perceived were the mindset of the very liberal Seattle area readers who saw Boeing as that Corporate monster that had to be controlled and fleeced by big government. The words now spoken by people in the Northwest is "Boeing is going." We as a result, have one of the highest unemployment rates in the nation. The press in order to pander to its readers, spanked the hand that fed them.

All I can say is the press better learn the facts of life before it is too late.

Please let me know if you find the original text!

ex-marine officer isn't he?

Portions of the original text are quoted in this discussion of the original BS title:

http://mb4.theinsiders.com/faccboardsfrm1.showMessage?topicID=23737.topic

In this post about it, it also has a link that now goes to the new article instead of the one they are trying to hide.

"Who was the last objective mainstream media man?

Eric Severeid maybe?"

Severeid's nickname was 'Eric the Red' -- as in red diaper red.

I think we may be down to David Brinkley, since Brinkley was around after Huntley. (Anyone remember his 'Clinton is a bore" riff on election night?)