Now that I know that it bothers them....
Just when you think the Dems can't get anymore petty, petulant and self-involved.....it is truly hard to believe that any ink has been shed over this junk:
*http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/
la-na-democrat30jan30,0,2751671.story?coll=la-home-headlines
I'd like to know when the LA Times is going to spend as much space explaining why every conservative mentioned in a story is "ultra-conservative" or "extreme" and every liberal is "moderate" or "progressive".
Please. When I was a journalism major, you could not use adjectives (except for "a", "an" or "the") in a story unless you were specifically writing an op-ed. You had to use the word "said", rather than "opined", "complained" or any other verb that conveys any other image that was less than objective. You had to actually learn to do 25 word leads with the five "w's" compactly contained within. Then again, you actually had to learn to write effectively and efficiently.
If you strayed from basic rules of reporting, you were snarled at, failed, and told to report to the feature story class down the hall. Now? Pick up any newspaper and the agendas hit you full in the face. So do the Dems really want to talk about the usage of adjectives?
Republicans have been getting the raw end of THAT deal for decades now.
Too bad journalism isn't taught in J School anymore.

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