One Guy's Opinion on the Political Scene By: Jim Herndon
ER editor David Little’s opinion piece was an encomium to the newspaper business describing it as an important part of our culture that we should support and preserve.
As a lifelong subscriber to many newspapers, I would love to agree with him but cannot. He used the old popular label, “government watchdog,” to describe the newspaper, but it is no longer true. The major media has become so biased to the left we should call it the “Obama government guard dog.” A politically biased press that knowingly promotes a political philosophy and diabolically presents it as news is a corrupt press. To compound that by focusing mostly on crime, death, and destruction and exaggerating every bad situation is a destructive press. Examples abound. The major media repeatedly recapped the incident of the Los Angeles father murdering his entire family and killing himself and blamed it on the economy. Irresponsible. Many major newspapers are in financial trouble, teetering on collapse, and it is not solely because of reduced readership associated with the internet and blogosphere. The Seattle Post and Minneapolis Star are two leftist big city papers near bankruptcy, and it will be no loss. The Post refused to help the FBI locate probable terrorists. Many Minnesotans call the Star, the Red Star. The New York Times, once a great paper known for its unbiased investigative prowess is now an anti-anything American, elitist opinion-only, inbred paper out of touch with the American public and its core values.
