Letters to the Editor
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What about WaPo?
For the most part, I agree. However, you can't completely talk fringe as long as the Washington Post's lead editorial takes the tone it did on Thursday. And Malveaux may be headed for the fringe, I certainly hope, but CNN is pretty mainstream too.
Reading the comments following the Post editorial was pretty discouraging. As a minority writer said, it's apparent that AIPAC mailed it out as a rapid response talking point, and America's pro-Israel mafia fell into line.
The response to Conason's column on Salon today is pretty discouraging, too. Do people not get how important, even historic, this is, even ones who might be expected to?
But this Congress's actions are forming a pattern, and it's a pretty positive one. As one action reinforces another, we should be able to use that to force a recognition of change in media like the WaPo, CNN, and even Salon, and push the fringies back to the corner where they spawned.