Letters to the Editor
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you know it makes sense
NPR, Pacifica, CNN, Reuters, Fox and all the others have long since stopped pretending they DON'T have a clear bias and agenda. So listening to people complain about that is rather fruitless, no? Institutions like CAMERA didn't spring full blown from some Evil Zionist's Head, much as the readership here would love to believe that. CAMERA and others of that ilk were created to respond to that clear bias. And make no mistake, bias exists. It absolutely exists.
I wouldn't write to the Guardian angrily because it didn't take the same PoV as the London Times. Would you? It would be silly to expect the NY Times to suddenly stop adopting the position of the miserable brown peoples the world over, oppressed by some nameless faceless force, below the fold page one. I'm pretty sure that Fox is not going to run a whole new program about the problems with being African American Lesbians in the inner city. Complaining that they don't is kind of stupid.
So why should they bother to pretend that the ombudsman has a real role or that it changes anything? The complaint department is as it's always been. Your call is very important to us, please continue to hold. No sir/maam there's nothing I can do about that. Our research indicates that one person can never make a difference. Thank you for your email.