Those leftists?
Not on your life!
They totally ruined the hometown Indianapolis Star when they bought it in 2000.
https://www.skyscrapercity.com/threads/what-happened-to-the-indianapolis-star.969676/
Actually, they’ve published my opinion pieces quite a few times over the years but sometimes edit them. Here’s an example from March 2020:
Have you noted the (fake) outrage over President Trump calling COVID-19 coronavirus a Chinese virus? Where is the outrage at the Chinese Communist government which acted early to shut down the spread of information about the disease, which paved the way for freedom of travel by carriers of the illness?
A CNN commentator suggested that President Trump be charged with homicide for his less than adequate response to the coronavirus outbreak, as over 100 people have died of it as of this time. Funny, I don’t recall them calling for charges against President Obama in 2010 when over 1,000 people had died of the H1-N1 Swine Flu (another Chinese disease) epidemic before he made any move to help curb it!
In 2018 a late night so-called comedian said the economy would have to be tanked to prevent Trump’s reelection. Looks like he may get his wish. Any pain YOU suffer will be worth it, in their eyes.
I would not be surprised if I learned that Democrats in a back room somewhere are busy strategizing how to spread corona into the less affected parts of the country. Never let a crisis go to waste, after all.
After the Russia-Russia-Russia, Ukraine-Ukraine-Ukraine and impeach-impeach-impeach hoaxes it would not be surprising if the administration had treated the initial reports as more fake news designed for political effect. He never called the outbreak a hoax, only the media’s reporting on it.
Bottom line is, Trump could cure cancer and they’d accuse him of depriving the doctors and other medical personnel who specialize in treating cancer of their income. Lord preserve us from fakes, phonies and frauds!
(Note that this is the original submission; in print they deleted the fourth paragraph)
And one from January of ‘21:
On October 15, 2020 candidate Joe Biden said “Things you can’t do by executive order unless you’re a dictator”. “We’re a democracy. We need consensus.” But during his first week in office his executive orders wiped out tens of thousands of good paying jobs when he stopped the Keystone pipeline and forbade oil and gas drilling on federal lands. Say farewell to energy independence and moderate gas prices. And now your teenage daughter who is a promising athlete will have to defeat biological males pretending to be girls to claim a championship.
Elections have consequences. This one will devastate the economy for years to come. The oil and gas industries will be affected as well as the suppliers of their materials and equipment, the stores where they shop, the restaurants where they dine and their fellow taxpayers who will have to take up the slack for the taxes they are no longer able to pay. The truckers who delivered to the businesses will have to shift to driving oil from Canada to the refineries that Keystone was meant to supply. Environmentalists opposed the pipeline. Will they support the pollution from the truck and rail traffic that will now deliver it? The railroad and trucking oligarchs will be pleased!
All this as the result of a fraudulent election in which one state had over 200,000 more mail-in ballots returned than were mailed out and tens of thousands were returned before the mail-out date. Stalin was right when he said “the people who count the votes decide everything”.
(And in the print issue they deleted the final paragraph)
Maybe it depends on who is the on-duty editor on the day of submission.
UPDATE ON THIS POST: They did publish it, as written in today’s issue. But they have a 30-day rule, so I can’t get another in until March. By then today’s pertinent issues will have faded and new ones sprung up.