Uncivil media

If you want to know why the MSM is so leftwing and blatant about it, Editor & Publisher is the publication to read. President Bush recently visited the American Society of Newspaper Editors conference. This is how Joe Strupp, Senior Editor of E & P and frequent guest on NPR, began the article.

President Bush might have thought he would get a kind, welcoming introduction for his appearance Thursday at the American Society of Newspaper Editors conference. After all, he was introduced for the lunchtime address by Rich Oppel, editor of the Austin American-Statesman, which Bush termed his “hometown paper” during his eight years as Texas governor.

That was a smarmy way to start the attack. Hometown doesn't necessary equate to friendly, but Strupp knew that. From there, Strupp quoted Oppel extensively, including this:

“Mr. President,” Oppel concluded, “seeing as we may have differences over access to government information, in our discussion today perhaps you may speak about the resolution between national security and an open society.”

How come an "open society" does not include Howard Dean's records while he was governor of Vermont? How come an "open society" does not include John Kerry's complete military records that were promised? How come an "open society" doesn't include a serious examination of the circulation fraud perpetuated by newspapers? How come an "open society" has such an uncivil Society of newspaper editors?