To: thegreatbeast
I think it's pretty obvious that her use of the word "refused" implies that the WSJ was blacklisting Coulter's defenders. If you wish to parse the headline
a la Bill Clinton, you can say it was value-neutral. But semantic gymnastics aside, her headline places blame upon the Journal.
The WSJ Editorial page spent a lot of the Nineties blasting Clinton -- was it then their obligation to print every pro-Clinton letter they received in response? Newspapers have VERY limited space to print letters and they are under no obligation to print any of them. A less accusatory headline would be "An Open Letter to the Wall Street Journal." That wouldn't imply guilt by the WSJ Editorial Board.
21 posted on
07/27/2003 12:15:04 PM PDT by
inkling
To: inkling
What is obvious, and understandable, friend, is that the WSJ didn't want to print a letter that quickly and simply showed one of their columnists to be a harridan bereft of facts.
55 posted on
07/27/2003 6:59:54 PM PDT by
thegreatbeast
(Quid lucrum istic mihi est?)
To: inkling
You are ridiculous on this, and I am only up to post # 21. I cant imagine what facts you have twisted by the time you get to my posts. Sayonara.
62 posted on
07/27/2003 7:20:16 PM PDT by
ontos-on
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