Forum… Or Against ’em

Count von Olsen

By Count Friedrich von Olsen
I have always had an abiding respect for the Washington Post. It goes without saying that almost two generations ago, two of what were its more obscure reporters, Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward, did a bang up job of tenaciously reporting on what would become known as the Watergate Scandal. So thorough and dynamic was their reportage, that they felled the President of the United States, the most powerful man on the planet and Mssrs Bernstein and Woodward went from the fourth string to star status. All the way across the continent, I am a subscriber, with the paper delivered to the doorstep of my chalet here in Lake Arrowhead. I don’t consider my morning complete until I have soiled my fingertips with its newsprint…
I must say I am a bit dismayed of late in reading it. I opened the paper recently, only to be greeted with the following headlines: Donald Trump must think we’re all fools; The crisis of morality at Fox News; The singular danger of Trump; Trump’s repellent inner circle; and Joe Arpaio, America’s scofflaw sheriff…
Is it just me, or do I detect something of what others might refer to as a liberal bias in the way these headlines read? My impression is the Washington Post doesn’t have a very high opinion of the 2016 Republican nominee for president or the lawman from Arizona who, in some circles anyway, is referred to as America’s Sheriff…
Now, I’m for a free press as much, or even more, than the next guy. But I find it just a tad disturbing that a respected newspaper like the Washington Post, instead of giving me information upon which I might draw my own conclusions, has taken to instructing me on what I should think through the use of bombastic, and might I say fatuous, headlines…
Despite my feelings, I will not cancel my subscription…

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