Dr. Laura Writes the News

I couldn't agree more, Don.

I stopped reading the News Press ages before the whole McCaw debacle. I started noticing that they were editorializing titles to major stories, and that's when I knew they were never going to grow up and be a real paper.

Now Don and Native1, I'm sure you have the same opinion about the NYT. hmmmm? When libs deride a media source I begin to think it's time to take a look at it. Daniel Petry

I sent a letter to the editor of SBNP regarding a factually challenged Dr. Laura essay. It wasn't printed. When I bother to send a letter to the editor of a local paper, it gets printed about 85% of the time. Can't say I blame SBNP, though. Money is honey.

Jcrdan, How on earth do you justify the "libs" label? Perhaps you have a little thing going on called jumping to conclusions?

Anyway, regarding the SBNP vs NYT comparison. I have no idea. I don't read the NYT. I read the LA Times. It's not a perfect paper, but I never see an editorialized headline outside of the editorial section.

That's what I was saying about the SBNP, that it is inappropriately editorial and impolitic. Seems like you have your own agenda, here. That's fine, just don't use my comment to try and support it. You have no idea what my politics are.

The NYT is a vastly superior paper compared to the SBNP. One may disagree with their editorials, but the NYT's news coverage is superb.

Take for example this investigative story on ground beef safety and the relationship between meat suppliers and meat packers:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/04/health...

Good info for the consumer and the public at large that bloggers or wire service subscribers (like the SBNP) are unlikely to provide.

I think it's all silly really: Obama getting the Peace Prize all the while he carries on the policies of the previous administration but after all, just as conservatives love their Religious Right/Family Values Republican politicians, (even if they've divorced and remarried a la Newt Gingrich and Bob Dole) the liberals love their "progressive" candidates even of they are pro-war and pro-Patriot Act. (Such as our current president)

When I see people getting all hot and bothered about politics it reminds me of cross-town high school sports rivalry: it's more about having someone to dislike than it is about facing the hypocrisy which is so rife in political posturing.

So when is the war going to end?

As a liberal I also think the WSJ news coverage is top notch and better than the NYT (although there are signs of Murdoch creeping in recently) and the barrier between their wretched and factually challenged editorials (often countervailed by what's printed within) could not be more clear. As the News Press sinks further toward oblivion it is not helping their cause to conflate peevish editorializing with reporting. "Dr." Laura is a poor source for information of any kind.