One of the primary reasons this blog was fired back up was to counter the severe bias of the Sun-Telegraph and the Media Empire!? of the Young family. The following is a response to that bias.
Recently, the local hometown rag published a response by Nebraska Senator Ben Nelson, in which he offered a response a letter to the editor published under my name. The subject was the impact of the shutdown on military families and the lack of attention budget passage had been given while the Senator's party had total control of the Congress last year.
The Senator proffered that he had been busy on his sub committee trying to pass a portion of the overall budget, but that Republicans held up the vote. To each of you and to Senator Nelson, I say: Look it up!
The fact that subcommittees, or even committees work on components of the budget to bring to the floor for votes discounts the fact that all funding bills must originate in the House of Representatives. The House was solidly under the control of the Democrats, and yet no bill ever came to the floor to vote on.
Senator Nelson would have you believe that he is fighting for you and that non-Nebraskans such as myself shouldn't mislead you good people. I counter that The good Nebraska Senator should not be misleading you good Nebraskans, which is exactl what he did in his response.
Finally, I will close with the notation that the hometown paper recently instituted a muzzle on your first amendment right to free speech by curbing thte length of letters to the editor to just 250 words (it had been a modest 400). They likewise limited the number of submissions to one per week as the astounding number of letters they receive from the good doctor C and I, were making it more difficult to figure out the layout of the editorial page.
It seems that the editorial limit for Senator Nelson was overlooked as the paper needed to afford him an extra 55 words he needed to mislead you all.
*****UPDATE******
It was nice of Sue Mizell to let the people of the town know that there had been a change in the editorial practices of the Sun-Telegraph. It is amusing nonetheless that a paper thet size of the S-T would be remotel concerned about the length of letters to the editor rather than actually building trust with the readership.
A newspaper is only as good as the publishing leadership. It is clear that the S-T is in need of refurbishment in leadership and intellectual capital. As long as the staff is interested in limiting the view and coverage to that which clearly points to the agenda of Mr. Person and the other FOG, then, this publication will gladly keep applying the pressure of a truly disparate platform.
Congratulations, you earned competition just by being yourselves.
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