Letters to the Editor
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Published Letters: 87 Editor's Choice: 4
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Perils of Private School
[Read the article: Getting divorced? Well, you're also fired]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Although I do feel bad for the person who got fired, this is a private school we are talking about, and they are not bound to the same laws and conventions as are public schools. I go to a private Baptist university, and knew when I went in that the rules would not be the same as the state school where I got my undergraduate degree.
This being said, the only thing I can suggest is that the person find a new job where divorce doesn't matter.
On a more personal note, the university in question should take the stick out of their collective butts.
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This whole rotten, stinking mess
[Read the article: Bin Laden is back; let's smear Michael Moore]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I just don't know where to begin. I am a true Patriot, brought up to believe that my country is the best thing that ever happened to planet Earth, that everyone loves us, and that those who didn't are evil.
I never believed in Santa Claus. I gave the Easter Bunny and the Tooth Fairy a miss, and though I was raised a Catholic, I found the universal truth of Jesus' message of loving ones fellow man so much more important that His ability to walk on water and to feed the multitudes with nothing.
It pains me so greatly now that I can no longer believe in my country. I suppose we all reach a state where our childhood visions of the world, Truth writ large, are laid assunder. But watching an administration murder wholesale an innocent people... watching the country that I love, a country that used to be thought of as great liberators become nothing more than torturers.. it saddens me to the core. Hearing people I once respcted as good, salt of the Earth types actually argue FOR torturing people, arguing FOR the stealing of our liberties, giving away our precious freedoms for a safety that doesn't exist.. it makes me want to weep.
Listening to the media regurgitate talking points given to us by a corrupt administration is too much. Gone are the days for Murrow. Gone are the days of the journalist as the soldier of Truth, of Trust. We now live in an ear of "Pundits", and like most puns, there is a joke in there somewhere, and, also like most puns, the joke really isn't funny.
It is exceedingly difficult to know the difference between right and wrong. The American people used to be able to count of the people in the newsrooms to deliver to us the facts, so we could discover the Truth. Now we have entire networks devoted to spin, and other networks who were once respctable now just bleating out the same mindless, untruthful, distorted propaganda in the name of ratings. RATINGS? My god, whatever happened to the truth?
Matthews is not the only media whore. Even giving Fox a miss, the whoredom is rampant. And, unfortunately, this is what America has to help them make the right decisions. Or, as the case may be, help justify the wrong decisions.
A free press is the most important liberty we can have... it is the glue that holds all other freedoms together, that keeps us safe from people who mean to do us all harm for the sake of their own person gain.
I end with a quote. It is an idea from a man reknown for his ideas. It will sounds familiar, at least in it's practice.
"Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of their leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country". Anyone care to take a guess at who said that? Karl Rove? Man, you are close. It was Herman Goering. You know him, he was Hitler's brain, in much the same sense are Rove is Bush's brain.
It is an incredibly sad day in America when the news organizations can't be bothered to speak the truth.
David Luckett