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If you at our local daily newspaper continue to let Americans believe — and vote as if — President Bush and the Republicans caused the crisis, then you are joining in that lie.If you do not tell the truth about the Democrats — including Barack Obama — and do so with the same energy you would use if the miscreants were Republicans — then you are not journalists by any standard.
You're just the public relations machine of the Democratic Party, and it's time you were all fired and real journalists brought in, so that we can actually have a news paper in our city.
Orson Scott Card's complaint about Big Journalism's participation in the Democratic Party's lies reminds me of an idealistic seeker of truth in the Soviet Union. The Soviets had a system for handling people who had complaints about the difference between Communist rhetoric and Communist reality.Any complaint was always "somebody else's" responsibility - so if you took a complaint to a bureaucrat, they would make you wait in interminable lines to get to see you, and then they would finally refer you somewhere else, more inconvenient than it had been even to get to see you. Most people eventually just gave up in frustration.
But if you were really determined, of course, there was always the gulag . . .
"Liberalism" and"progressivism" are simply positive labels which Big Journalism awards to politicians who participate in the con that criticism, condemnation, and complaint - cheap second guessing which is how journalists actually "earn" their daily bread - are more in the public interest than being "the man in the arena" and actually trying to get useful things done. When as and if Mr. Card finally realizes that journalism actually exists to be a propaganda arm of the party which exists to be coopted by it, there is always the option of becoming a neoconservative - a liberal who's been mugged by reality and can no longer exist within the system which raised him. At which point he will be a Republican - if an opposition party is still allowed in America by then . .