Rock the vote
Your newspaper goes farther to the "left" every day. You have already started your negative Fred Thompson stories. Where are all the stories about Sen. Hillary Clinton and the many illegal activities she committed during her time in the White House? What about the 140 pardons given out by President Clinton, including real criminals such as 6 members of the FALN?
Every 5-4 decision by the present Supreme Court is described as a victory for the "Radical Right." When it was a 5-4 decision in the past, it was a victory for the people. Remember "fairness" is a two way street.
That letter to the editor was published while I was gone. It also received two dozen comments. I need to add one more.
I don't know what negative stories the writer was refering to. Most recently, we published a short item about Thompson not filing financial disclosures, which is permissible as he's not an official candidate. Didn't seem negative. A couple weeks before that, we published a story about Hillary Clinton criticizing Thompson for suggesting illegal Cuban immigrants pose a terrorist threat. The next story was positive, about how his candidacy excited Southern Baptists. That's it since April.
We have published numerous stories about the Clinton's actions in the White House back when they were in the White House. I also searched our archives for radical right and Supreme Court, and the last time those two terms were used together in the News & Record was in 1995.
As the campaign heats up, so do the accusations and rhetoric. We'll get and publish more and more letters like this from now through November 2008, as painful as that prospect seems to me. Don't get me wrong. I appreciate the engagement, passion and strong opinion the writers bring to the topic. I just wish they would care as much about documenting what they write.
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Your newspaper goes farther to the "left" every day. You have already started your negative Fred Thompson stories.* Hack off Thompson supporter
That's odd! Some think your newspaper is a flaming right wing rag. Others think your newspaper is a tool of the French government promoting french fries again in this country. And some think your sports department is on a quest to destroy Coach K and Duke as a secret Republican recruiting club.
Frankly I think you are covering up the hit contract on Mr. Hammer and the Rhino Times by the Marseille French Connection gang. Any fool knows that drug dealers only pop their competition in the market place of myths by conservatism.
Either way JR, you will always be between a rock and a hard place trying to be in the middle of politics and the media business.
Posted on July 20, 2007 11:48 PM
John, he is right about the Supreme Court stuff. It's not just your paper, which is probably culling those stories from syndication, but when a decision is 5-4 in favor of the Left, the media never refers to it as a victory for the "far Left". Instead, it is described as a victory for "rights" or "civil liberties", etc.
Posted on July 22, 2007 12:20 AM
Please tell us when your paper, carried a lte, negative to Easley, are his gang? Yet you print every lte that comes off the internet negative to Bush.Last week your paper printed a lte, that was written about Bush 1. Bush in my opinion, is a screw up. Like wise so is Easley. Yet I can read about Bush, each day , I never see a unkind word about Easley. If I ran a newspaper, and the sales where going down, I try to figure out what was going wrong. Example, your paper has went out of its way to praise Michel Moore and his sicko movie. However Cuban Doctors, have been on tv, saying it was BS. Have not read about this in the paper. Have you? Hope you caught some fish.
Posted on July 22, 2007 7:53 AM
Likewise, Samuel, those stories don't often refer to the "radical right" or "far right."
Doug, that's a question for Allen Johnson, but I do know that to publish a letter we have to receive a letter. And I suspect that Mike Easley doesn't inspire many letters pro or con. Certainly not in the way President Bush does.
Posted on July 22, 2007 8:32 AM