To Paul Pronovost, Ed., The Cape Cod
Times: Here's another letter you won't publish in
your newspaper. Why not? Dangerous times?
G. Tod Slone, Ed.
The American Dissident
G. Tod Slone, Ed.
The American Dissident
Dangerous Times: Too Many Journalists Are PC-Ideologues
Sadly, your editorial, “Dangerous
Times: Journalism Remains a Perpetual
Punching Bag,” reflects the same one-sided
victimization and self-congratulatory stance as the previous editorial you published
on 8/26, “Exposing
the Truth: Media’s Pen Remains Far Mightier Than Any Sword.” Well, unsurprisingly, you did not publish my
letter with its regard. Will you publish
this letter? In other parts of the world, journalism can indeed be
dangerous (Cuba, Russia, China, Iran, ISIS) or, if not dangerous, tough. But the “assaults on journalistic integrity,”
as you term them, can also come from within.
It is odd that you do not even mention the huge assault, as underscored
in Sharyl Attkinsson’s recently published book Stonewalled. That assault
has been by the Obama administration and newspaper editors themselves, in case
you are unaware. It is the assault of
political correctness (left-wing ideology) on truth and transparency! How did you manage not to include that in
your editorial? How not to question the
integrity of journalists who do put PC above truth telling? ”The truth is often far from pretty,” you
note, “but it remains the truth, and someone has to tell it.” But then why do you not follow your own
advice here on Cape Cod? Why do you continue
to refuse to report on Sturgis Library’s permanent banning without due process of
me, my ideas, and books I publish from its premises? Why do you refuse to report that my civil
rights are being denied under your editorial snout right here in Barnstable
where I cannot attend any cultural or political events held at my neighborhood
library, you know, the one my taxes help support, the one that disdains free
speech, vigorous debate, and due process, democracy’s very cornerstones? You, dear editor, are one of those very
hypocrites you decry in your editorial...PS: Journalists sometimes, perhaps many times, are not the victims at all, but rather the perpetrators, either by their silence or active participation, of status-quo bullshit, you know, like Obama's "the most transparent administration in history"...
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