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But every single thing we read in the paper, including hard news, is the product of other people's opinions about what we should know. Problems happen when those in charge believe in their own objectivity so much they know longer know that one simple fact.

Absolutely true. I would add that every journalist should know that journalism is not an objective science but a form of advocacy. That is why critics of Lord Action called him a journalist rather than an historian, because he was so full of opinion.

"It is the constitutional right of every citizen, no matter how ignorant or how depraved, to be a journalist."

As always these self deluded liberals consider anyone who does not share there liberal philosophy or exposes their bias is denounced as ignorant or depraved.

A reasoned response would never occur to this liberal because he knows that he can not defend himself with the facts.

The funniest story ever run in the Times was when no one in Los Angeles seemed to know the origin of the term "Politically Incorrect" as it was then the title of Bill Maher's program.

The term originated, of course, in the Marxist Leninist police states of the Soviet Union and China, where to be deemed "politically incorrect" was a crime punishable by days to lifetimes in concentration camps or Gulags. To be politically incorrect meant that you were primitively and greedily capitalistic or imperialistic in your thinking -- you had not yet realized the supreme truths of socialism/communism in that you might want to still own private property, or worship God, or believe in freedom of speech or of the press. You were not yet on your way to being the new "Soviet man" or woman, and you would be imprisoned and "reeducated" by your captors until you broke or became a communist.

That's the origin of our now overused and misunderstood phrase, though it seemed no one in the entire readership of the LA TIMES seemed to know this well known historical fact. The irony is it's guys like John Carroll who want being politically incorrect to become a crime in Los Angeles.

If there was any way I could just order the Calendar, Health and Highway sections without having to get the other sections of the paper, I would resubscribe. The LA TIMES is really just PRAVDA in English.