In another 150 years they might apologize for being biased to the left.
What; Are they and the WaPo deflecting from the obvious necessary headline ‘Paper Finally Apologizes for Panning Conservative, Limbaugh, Levin and Senators Cruz and Lee Over Obama Horrors’?
“Patriot-News”.
It’s neither.
(Dateline 2163)
“Free Republic, a 170 year old internet forum, apologizes for panning Obama’s healthcare reforms.”
I’m not much of a fan of lincoln or the Civil War era republican/railroad fascists he represented. I wish I could say “the South shall rise again”, but I know I can say “the North shall crumble in upon its corruption.” And lo, it is.
The paper probably lauded the prolix speeches of Democrats at the event.
This is what happens when the media, paper and electronic, falls into the trap of Yellow Journalism. Any wet-behind-the-ears cub journalist should remember their history of journalism class in college about the effects of Yellow Journalism. It is disaster for them when they forget history’s lessons. “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”—George Satanaya.
The effects of Yellow Journalism is the eroding of confidence in the media. The Hearst papers of the early 20th century is a prime example of how yellow journalism not only effected our politics but is influenced a lawlessness that ruined lives and brought the Spanish American War of 1898.