3/23/2003
Where has the media been?
Ron Cunningham, the Gainesville Sun's good-natured and award-winning editorial page editor, writes a column about the volume of pro-war astroturf letters his paper has received. A lot begin with the same sentence: Where has the media been? There's plenty of coverage of the socialist-led anti-war demonstrations, complete with their vanguard of radical left-wing Hollywood 'actors.' But where is the coverage of these rallies of grass-roots support?
Look up "Where has the media been there's plenty" in Google and you get about four hits. That might rise in the next few days. But after the embarrassment of the When it comes to the economy, President Bush is demonstrating genuine leadership letter (more than 100 newspapers reprinted a "reader's letter" obviously composed by the Republican Party), opinion page editors have been more careful to screen obviously mass-produced letters. (See last January's Flablog, too.)
(Thanks to a Gainesville reader)
Look up "Where has the media been there's plenty" in Google and you get about four hits. That might rise in the next few days. But after the embarrassment of the When it comes to the economy, President Bush is demonstrating genuine leadership letter (more than 100 newspapers reprinted a "reader's letter" obviously composed by the Republican Party), opinion page editors have been more careful to screen obviously mass-produced letters. (See last January's Flablog, too.)
(Thanks to a Gainesville reader)
