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I work for a major daily newspaper. It's astonishing: these people believe they are the most intellectually gifted around, yet there's hardly an independent thinker among them. Their thoughts are in lockstep with each other. They work to please themselves and each other. They are full of themselves because, after all, they are so smart and thus they deserve the right to determine what news the people read, and how that news should be massaged to fit their agenda. They don't especially like me. They know I work for pro-life organizations (they tried to get me fired once for the pro-life work that I do on my own time), that I'm a Christian, that I vote conservative, etc. It baffles them when I do things in the office such as conceive and direct a program to aid the homeless. I'm somewhat amused but also saddened when I cheerfully say "Hi" to the most arrogant of them, and they barely, if at all, turn their head in acknowledgement. I must remember this, though: I need to pray more for them, for after all, I'm a sinner just as they are. I'm saved by Jesus Christ dying on the cross for me to pay for my sins.

[Lacey]

Hang in there and continue to let your light shine!

[wtc911]

Are you that 'mild mannered reporter for a great metropolitan newspaper'?

[Colosis]

Well said. Must be tough for you there, but I wouldn't bother praying for these people although I'm not a committed Christian - yet.

[Texas Jack]

About five years ago, Walter Williams was filling in for Rush Limbaugh one Friday and he was lamenting the dismal results of the education industry and how it was adversely effecting blacks.

Mr. Williams made an astounding statement that has stuck in head ever since.

He said that as a group, people entering colleges as education majors (going to be teachers and administrators in the education industry) made the lowest scores on their SAT exams. He said that the next lowest group was journalism majors.

His point was that we have the least capable teaching our children and next least capable telling us what is happening in our world.

After all, you must have some degree of intelligence to realize that there are others smarter than you.

[Temple Owl]

i worked for the late and lamented Philadelphia Evening Bulletin. It was once the largest evening newspaper and third largest in America. It was a conservative paper when I first went there, but the liberals took over before it folded in 1982.
The good thing was, I was able to start a string of conservative weekly newspapers which are prospering today. I am now semi-retired, but my oldest son--a Mizzou J-school grad-- has a firm grip on the reins and he will not tolerate creeping liberal ideas,

[tractorman]

God bless you and yours. You deserve combat pay.

If there were a democRAT in the White House now, we’d be hearing about the great successes in Iraq 24/7.