"New Front in Racism Battle?' If I hadn't had the misfortune of watching some TV last night, I'd believe your front page story. But I was stuck with TV. And it showed Ms. Sherrod's entire speech which shows the Post--as well as the NAACP and most of America--continue to be snookered by our vitrolic Right wing, which continues to dominate our discourse with lies and hate. You owe your readers an apology.So when I went to look for the article in the ONLINE WaPo just now (hours later), I found the article, all right, but it now has a new headline: "Firing of USDA official Shirley Sherrod now under review"
Don'tcha just grit your teeth over this kind of b.s.? How long are we going to suffer the slings & arrows of the Right wing?
UPDATE: This is my comment to Rachel Maddow on Huffington Post this evening:
Rachel, the WaPo is in there pitching along with Fox. This morning they tried to pitch the story as "providing fodder for those who call Obama biased." Now that the whole story has come out, and Vilsack has apologized to Ms. Sherrod and offered her another job with the Dept of Ag., WaPo is saying "how the White House veered off message." Anything to dump on Obama. The whole thing is disgusting.
I think that I was right and the whole American media is again/still/persistently wrong. The Sherrod story shows us only that the Right wing dominates the discourse. And Sherrod's main point--that while race is an issue in our country, a more profound and still ignored issue is that of poverty, that of class, continues to be ignored.
ReplyDeleteWe like to pretend that we are classless. We like to pretend that all of us are potentially rich. This is the myth that keeps the Right wing alive; It is also the myth that keeps the press from addressing Sherrod's point, continuing the charade the Right created, and trying to spin it to make the Obama administration look like the bad guy.
So disheartening.
Cat
so true...and thanks for starting this off this a.m.!!
ReplyDeleteI'm sooooooo tired of what passess for journalism in this country!!!
ReplyDeletekay: welcome back!!
ReplyDeleteI think the right wing press will discredit itself as it keeps on with these excesses. Things will either get better or worse. They can't stay in this precarious position.
ReplyDeleteAs the newspaper business tries to save itself it seems to slink away from what we need. Honest, investigative reporting. We are in such need of print voices that can be trusted.
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