Accuse, Obscure, Disappear, Apologize…The Marin School of Journalism
Carol Marin who improbably holds a one-woman monopoly on political reportage and commentary in this town has allowed her knee jerk-liberal instincts to compromise her Sun-Times column with a totally false charge which she didn’t check out…and has been forced to apologize profusely, saying “I could not have been more wrong.” The apology looks to me as if it were a prelude to a deal where her newspaper is trying to grovel to avoid a justifiable law suit. It deserves to be whacked with a heavy suit just to make clear its irresponsibility in publishing an emotionally vituperative left-wing column with no editing or fact checking.
As one who has read Marin since she started her Sun-Times column…her first offering being to lionize Studs Terkel the FM radio millionaire cocktail lounge “revolutionary”…I have long felt there is a rupture between her core left columns and her NBC-PBS appearances as an ostensible wide-eyed idealist, wrapped up in semi-religious veneer which hides Woodstock-style cliché `70s views lurking beneath the surface. The gaffe which unjustly slurred the National Rifle Association should…if we were in real journalistic world…cause her to lose her column and bring her credibility as a “journalist” into major question. When prepared, she’s not bad as a questioner on two TV venues, NBC and WTTW…although assuredly WTTW’s born-yesterday management typified by vacuous Phil Ponce and Manager Schmidt wouldn’t be able to verify her accuracy on anything since they share her wide gaps of historical ignorance.
Ironically on the Sun-Times, she followed the late Steve Neal on the who was a distinguished commentator (notwithstanding his liberalism over which we waged many good-natured debates) and a widely-published historian who made a tremendous contribution to history especially with his incisive study of the 1932 Democratic National convention and the subterranean forces that caused the first nomination of Franklin Roosevelt. The entire WTTW staff would have to run to its library of one or two paperbacks in a search to determine who was running and what was happening in 1932.
Her Sun-Times column last Wednesday where she imputes that the National Rifle Association has prevented the Center for Disease Control from releasing statistics of children shot by guns has disappeared (here is a proximate column). An outrageous conspiratorial suggestion for which she has to apologize. It’s the case of the wish being the mother of the thought. Your comments please.
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Tom Roeser is the Chairman of the Editorial Board of the Chicago Daily Observer
Roesser has it in for Marin.
She must have wronged him.
“Todd Vandermyde, the NRA’s legislative liaison for Illinois, said Tuesday by phone. “We have anti-gun researchers with a bias from the git-go. . . . We don’t think taxpayer dollars should be used . . . to drive an agenda to restrict law-abiding citizens access to firearms.”
He also should have included the majority of the media in that statement.
Make no mistake, the present administration would like nothing more than to take away all of America’s guns.
EVERY LAST ONE.
That is the solid reason that gun and ammo sales have gone through the roof in the last eight months and continue to be that way.
Just like they want to make America into something that we don’t want it to be, they want to disarm us so that we can do nothing about it.
“The Second Amendment is a doomsday provision, one designed for those exceptionally rare circumstances where all other rights have failed – where the government refuses to stand for reelection and silences those who protest; where courts have lost the courage to oppose, or can find no one to enforce their decrees. However improbable these contingencies may seem today, facing them unprepared is a mistake a free people get to make only once.”
2009 Judge Alex Kozinski
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West Texas
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