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Things Are Looking Up

6.2.03 @ 12:01AM

EXCITING TIMES
Re: George Neumayr's A Christmas Carroll:

All right, are you trying to tell me that there is more to this liberal bias thing than "it is in the eye of the beholder"? Well, by cracky, you may be right, but then it has only been one very brave, honest (or clever) man who has stepped up to the plate and, perhaps inadvertently admitted they are biased "sometimes" in their remarks.

Well, with the new comments I have read lately, as with John Fund's great article on the Clintons and the destruction they heap on the dems, and said clearly that he felt they were trying to place a soft candidate for '04, so Missy Hillary can sneak in to the White House in 08, life just gets delicious! (This has nothing to do with the subject, I just had to mention it!)

Still, the fact Mr. Carroll has spoken out still leaves the Los Angeles Times in the starting gate, for people will be watching, closely now for liberal bias or will want "sources" made public, which should be done.

Watching what is happening in America leaves me with the feeling that all the "dishonest messes" left by the liberals are slowly, but surely being changed to more honest business dealings, a superior military and a country that appreciates them, a delivery on its promises by the Republicans, the facing of the terrorists and now more honesty in the media?...

Kudos to Mr. Carroll. You may have started something. It often only takes one to start.
-- Carole Graham

"A Christmas Carroll" was remarkable. Scientific data is fact -- neither conservative nor liberal. Reporters by and large have no science background, have never worked in the field of bioscience, but they know enough not to go to herbalists and alternative medicine sources about medical issues (I think). However they do consider "activists" -- and people with strong "opinions warped with speculation" (based on a quote printed someplace and then referred to by someone else) -- as the "experts to seek out when reporting on a science based issue.

It is these people who are always sought and quoted on environmental issues mainly because they have the money to sue to further their social agenda and the simple fact that they are suing equates them to science-based experts. Reporters don't have to do much looking for them.

The right people with correct information, complicated as it is, are available with truth.

Amazing!
-- Judy Nuzum

Do you suppose we owe Jayson Blair a thank you for shining a light on the problem of liberal newspapers reporting something other than news?

It is nicely ironic that, by tarnishing the image of the NYT he might have motivated the LAT to clean up its act.
-- Richard Renken
Chesterfield, MO

MAILERING IT IN
Re: John R. Dunlap's Writer's Cramp:

I witnessed this maybe ten years ago on a quiet midweek afternoon in the lodge at the bunny slope at Killington Ski Area:

A man was loudly berating the girl attendant at the ski rental desk. His boots were wrong, his skis were wrong, everything was wrong, and it was all her fault. The man was abusive and nasty. He didn't see me, but I saw him: Norman Mailer.

Letter to the Editor

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