One Democrat's open letter to the press

Orson Scott Card, a Democrat and newspaper columnist, accuses the press of dishonesty and dishonor in an open letter to the local daily papers in America.

So I ask you now: Do you have any standards at all?  Do you even know what honesty means?

Is getting people to vote for Barack Obama so important that you will throw away everything that journalism is supposed to stand for?

You might want to remember the way the National Organization of Women threw away their integrity by supporting Bill Clinton despite his well-known pattern of sexual exploitation of powerless women.  Who listens to NOW anymore?  We know they stand for nothing; they have no principles.

That's where you are right now.

It's not too late.  You know that if the situation were reversed, and the truth would damage McCain and help Obama, you would be moving heaven and earth to get the true story out there.

If you want to redeem your honor, you will swallow hard and make a list of all the stories you would print if it were McCain who had been getting money from Fannie Mae, McCain whose campaign had consulted with its discredited former CEO, McCain who had voted against tightening its lending practices.

Then you will print them, even though every one of those true stories will point the finger of blame at the reckless Democratic Party, which put our nation's prosperity at risk so they could feel good about helping the poor, and lay a fair share of the blame at Obama's door.

You will also tell the truth about John McCain: that he tried, as a Senator, to do what it took to prevent this crisis.  You will tell the truth about President Bush: that his administration tried more than once to get Congress to regulate lending in a responsible way.

This was a Congress-caused crisis, beginning during the Clinton administration, with Democrats leading the way into the crisis and blocking every effort to get out of it in a timely fashion.

If you at our local daily newspaper continue to let Americans believe — and vote as if — President Bush and the Republicans caused the crisis, then you are joining in that lie.

If you do not tell the truth about the Democrats — including Barack Obama — and do so with the same energy you would use if the miscreants were Republicans — then you are not journalists by any standard.

You're just the public relations machine of the Democratic Party, and it's time you were all fired and real journalists brought in, so that we can actually have a news paper in our city.

Where the press has really outdone itself for craven corruption is in its glossing over of ACORN's ongoing voter registration fraud.  We are witnessing a challenge to the integrity of our electoral process casually dismissed by journalists who evidently fear that honest reporting on it might reflect badly on the candidate of their choice.  Not only are our media luminaries dismissive of ACORN's admitted criminal activity, they become positively vicious when a Republican voices alarm over it.  I couldn't agree more with Mr. Scott.  In this election year the liberal press has gone well beyond bias to outright dishonesty and dishonor.

Comments

[JR]

People want to feel good and they want to be entertained, which is what the "press" provides these days and nothing more. News is a thing that must be ferreted out by the individual seeking information; and it's bias must be discerned and discounted by the same individual.

All that aside, I would agree that we have seen a new low.

[RonTexas]

Really,

The Republican Party deserves to be EXACTLY where it is.

Quit whining about the referees.