I'm Still Waiting For David Hawpe's Piece, But Until Then, Here Goes: [Louisville Courier Journal's] "Editors Are 'Fair' ".
Editors are ‘fair'
The Courier-Journal 's president and publisher, Arnold Garson, in his article “The politics of a newspaper” in last Sunday's Forum says that this newspaper's editorial board consists of “liberal” editors, and the newspaper's opinion pages carry a similar tone. I disagree with him.
I don't claim to know the editors more than their boss does, but I do interact with some of them on rare occasions. With one of them, I deal weekly. Moreover, I go through the opinion pages as the first ritual of the day. I might not read every word on these pages, but I know the messages they convey on a day.
I find the C-J editorial board fair-minded and open to all arguments and ideas. It has even endorsed the candidacies of Mitch McConnell and Anne Northup. In 2003, it even fell victim to George Bush's McCarthy-style “weapon of mass deception” that he used to railroad just about every one in America into approving his mad rush to the Iraq war. What “liberal” worth his or her name would do things like that?
President Obama has been in office for just about seven months, but already the C-J has written at least one editorial in opposition to him. An editorial board which considers articles written by ultra-conservative columnists like Thomas Sowell, Cal Thomas, Charles Krauthammer and a few other similarly-minded self-declared custodians of correctness worth publishing on a regular basis cannot be called “liberal.” Garson is right when he says that “a newspaper with an editorial policy that leans left will be the target of those on the right” and vice versa, but I believe that the C-J editorial board tends to lean on the side of logic, not right or left. If its arguments are convincing, it does not mean that it is on one side of the intellectual divide or the other. …
SIDDIQUE MALIK
Louisville 40245
Mr. Malik is one of The Courier-Journal's Point Taken bloggers. — Editor.
Wrong about balance
The Courier-Journal 's president and publisher, Arnold Garson, in his article “The politics of a newspaper” in last Sunday's Forum says that this newspaper's editorial board consists of “liberal” editors, and the newspaper's opinion pages carry a similar tone. I disagree with him.
I don't claim to know the editors more than their boss does, but I do interact with some of them on rare occasions. With one of them, I deal weekly. Moreover, I go through the opinion pages as the first ritual of the day. I might not read every word on these pages, but I know the messages they convey on a day.
I find the C-J editorial board fair-minded and open to all arguments and ideas. It has even endorsed the candidacies of Mitch McConnell and Anne Northup. In 2003, it even fell victim to George Bush's McCarthy-style “weapon of mass deception” that he used to railroad just about every one in America into approving his mad rush to the Iraq war. What “liberal” worth his or her name would do things like that?
President Obama has been in office for just about seven months, but already the C-J has written at least one editorial in opposition to him. An editorial board which considers articles written by ultra-conservative columnists like Thomas Sowell, Cal Thomas, Charles Krauthammer and a few other similarly-minded self-declared custodians of correctness worth publishing on a regular basis cannot be called “liberal.” Garson is right when he says that “a newspaper with an editorial policy that leans left will be the target of those on the right” and vice versa, but I believe that the C-J editorial board tends to lean on the side of logic, not right or left. If its arguments are convincing, it does not mean that it is on one side of the intellectual divide or the other. …
SIDDIQUE MALIK
Louisville 40245
Mr. Malik is one of The Courier-Journal's Point Taken bloggers. — Editor.
Wrong about balance
Labels: News reporting
posted by KYJurisDoctor at 9:09 AM
0 Comments:
Post a Comment
<< Home