Letters to the Editor
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Preaching to the choir
The greatest failing of all progressive journalism and activism is preaching to the choir. We do it again and again and again. Gary needs to re-write his story so that it will persuade someone who doesn't already believe him. It's not that he's not right, it's that he starts from certain valid assumptions that mark the difference between those who are already deeply suspicious of the current regime and that which emanates from its flunkies, and those who think things are a mess, but are not at all persuaded that it has been aided by a systematic failing of the press to be anything but supine consumers of administration pronouncements about aluminum tubes, yellow cake, US Attorney firing patterns and practices, voter fraud as an ongoing 'problem', etc., etc., etc. We have to do BETTER, and not just speak the shorthand we speak to each other, but be ready to persuade those who haven't been paying much attention up until now.