You not allowed to use "Facts" with the left, it's discrimination!!!

Living less than a mile south of the District of Columbia, and as a blogger on local politics who tends to agree with much of the opinion they publish, I would love to be able to read the paper regularly.

The Examiner has redlined the predominately African-American area where I live. There is no home delivery. Their very few street boxes are scattered far apart and rarely contain a current newspaper--at $3.00 a gallon, it's not worth driving around trying to find one.

I think it is really unfortunate because many of the registered Democrats in this neighborhood would probably agree more than they realize with the editorials and opinions in the Examiner--especially since they seem increasingly unhappy with the growing murder rate and worsening schools that their 100% Democratic, majority African-American local government has delivered.

So, Lorie, if you write more for the Examiner, please be sure to either post your pieces, or at least call attention to and link to them.

I've wondered about this subject for some time. I don't know whether I've got it right yet, but I do think I'm getting close...

ALL the big media (including Fox, to some extent) seem to have regressed back to the days and standards of what used to be called "yellow journalism" in their effort to stir up controversy so that they will have an endless supply of stories to talk or write about. Got a scoop? Is it controversial, or sensational? Run with it and to heck with fact checking! (In fact, if possible spice it up even more!)

It's only a tiny baby step from the above state of journalistic standards to forgetting about the foundations of our justice system: the current standard is "guilty, until proven innocent."

And finally add political bias to the mix, with its own malice of agenda...

I really, really don't think this was what the framers of our Constitution had in mind when they justified Freedom of the Press.

I like the John Leo quote, Lorie. It goes with these:

"Everyone is entitled to his own opinion but not his own facts." -- Daniel Patrick Moynihan

"All of us necessarily hold many casual opinions that are ludicrously wrong simply because life is far too short for us to think through even a small fraction of the topics that we come across." -- Julian Simon

"In religion and politics people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at issue but have taken them at second-hand from other non-examiners, whose opinions about them were not worth a brass farthing." -- Autobiography of Mark Twain by Samuel Clemens

"It is amazing how many people think that they can answer an argument by attributing bad motives to those who disagree with them. Using this kind of reasoning, you can believe or not believe anything about anything, without having to bother to deal with facts or logic." -- Thomas Sowell

"When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser." -- Socrates