Surprisingly, a commentary columnist for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch doesn’t like Fox News or conservatives in the media:
“A PBS Mind in a Fox News World.”
I saw that slogan on a bumper sticker, and it resonated with me. I consider many news programs on the Fox network unabashedly partisan and ultraconservative. The idea that millions rely on it for news and information makes me wince.
You know, the thought that anyone gets news or insight from the Post-Dispatch would make me grimace, but I just can’t make that leap of disbelief. The funny pages, yes, because for the Post-Dispatch, they start on page one.
But by unleashing this common broadside of a normal newspaper commentariat who thinks airborne conservative communitariat are vain and whiny, I have to wonder what point the columnist is trying to make, and to whom he has targeted the piece. Does he want to draw the publicity ire of conservatives who will drive readers to him if only to mock him? Is he having a bit of fun with his small circle of readers who are reality-based in a real world?
Also, why do I care? But that’s enough questions for now.
