Fox, Limbaugh among those offering the truth

I thank God often for Fox News, Rush Limbaugh, Chris Plante, et al. Finally, there is some variety in presentation of the truths of each day’s events, not just the boilerplate leftist tripe of the major print media and alphabet broadcast networks. In print media, there was once a semblance of balance with significant numbers of big-city conservative newspapers offsetting the majority that were liberal. Now nearly all of the print media carry water for the Democrat left. Until Fox came along TV broadcast news was a type of barbershop quartet with the four singing the same collectivist song, different only tonally. The print media wrote the lyrics.

Before Fox and Rush, half of America already knew that the big media lied, distorted, suppressed facts and destroyed reputations of people who stood in the way of their agendas or favored candidates. Often they were successful as, for just one of many examples, when they trashed Barry Goldwater. The Washington Post destroyed George Allen because he could possibly have been a winning conservative Republican presidential candidate and the Post couldn’t have that. The big media tried to destroy Reagan, but he was smarter than they are. Other examples would fill many pages.

William Randolph Heart’s “yellow journalism” of the early 20th century parallels the mainstream media of the late 20th and early 21st centuries. In their personal sanctimony they may think they are better, but they are not. The papers and the broadcast media are brutal in presenting one side of a story, and refusing to publish the other side, or if it is publicized it is buried near the classified section. Every time I think of the New York Times and Washington Post, I think of apologia of Soviet socialism’s deliberate starvation of tens of millions of Russian and Ukrainian peasants during Stalin’s Great Famine. I remember Jayson Blair, Tawana Brawley, Al Sharpton instigating murder at Freddy’s Fashion Mart, Janet Cooke and others.

GERALD HOLLAND Bentonville