Since it is a rare occasion that a contrary position is included in response to an opinion piece I’m posting this from a friend who wrote a letter to the editor regarding this editorial.

Editorial board offers only its opinion (that being it’s left wing agenda opinion).

Response to editorial from Cynthia McClard:

I sent this letter to the Tennessean following the outrageous article on the front page of the Issues section by the editor. I know that it will not be published. Therefore, I am sending it to you so that you can see that I did try to enlighten them.
Cynthia

Me thinks you protest too much. I read the article “Editorial board offers only its opinion”. You were right that the bailout is a complex subject. However, I never read in your paper anything about the impact of the bailout on the taxpayer not did I read how this affects the deficit. We only heard how it would impact workers. On the policy side, why did we not have an article from Senator Corker on the editorial page outlining his proposal? He was a major player in crafting the legislation and he is our Senator.

Me thinks you protest too much because so many people understand that your covering of the issues on the editorial page as well as in other areas of the paper are sorely lacking in balance. The arrogance in your article was appalling. With the advent of the internet, news is much easier to access. Now, it is much harder for newspapers to limit reporting of issues without accountability. In the future, it would be better for you and those at “The Tennessean” to look at issues through all eyes not just your own bias.

I’m not sure if the print media will ever wake up and smell the coffee but there’s at least 50% of the population that isn’t of the left wing variety. Most of us in that 50% do not subscribe or bother to read The Tennessean. Personally, I don’t read The Tennessean, why should I buy a newspaper that believes and advocates that I’m a racist simply because I don’t vote for Harold Ford Jr (and asserts this in a ‘news article’ a few days before the election) or Barack Hussein Obama. It’s no wonder that so many media institutions are going the way of video tape. If you don’t adapt and appeal to the wider audience you go out of business.  Course you never know, media could be the next industry to rape the taxpayer to ‘bail’ them out!

Auto bailout, The Tennessean, Cynthia McClard

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