September 27, 2009

• letter to the shreditor

  Has the Times Tribune come to this? Seriously promoting the editorial comments of a man so cloudy clearly indoctrinated by corporate greed? Who could take serious such comments? Your fragile and often marginalized readers. Perhaps you might try a different approach. You might seriously consider comparing the voices of thousands, even millions, who have been systematically denied adequate health care because of companies like Humana, with those of those you clearly support. Maybe head over to the Knox County Health Department and interview those being treated? Oh wait, I’ve got it, actually print the truth as it happens to us all. Since when did such dishonesty become so reliable?

  Treating health care reform like it’s an attack on our sweet and precious corporate owners is not unlike turning up the thermostat in spite of rising energy costs. Outright ridiculous. But hey, at least you have the blessings of Humana. I’m certain the editorial board, managers, writers and copy clerks, not to mention powerless publisher, of the Times Tribune fit nicely into their dream scape of one world, one health care provider, one newspaper, one owner, one god. Oh, and I must not forget about all those awesome jobs that keep Kentuckians in the well-lit dark. Easy for a think tanker I reckon. Truly, it’s no wonder your paper will never receive that prized letter from Columbia University. Have you no conscience? You do know who your readers are, don’t you (hint: I described a good portion of them in the fourth sentence, above)? And finally, to be a bit more like your editorial free marketer, you do know what’s happening to newspapers the world over? Don’t you?

  Regards,

  dickcarter
  St Petersburg, FL

  • 12:49 pm
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