Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n
\u201cAll the news that\u2019s fit to print\u201d has been replaced with \u201call the news we want you to know.\u201d I didn\u2019t realize that news in America is on a need-to-know basis. The media decides what we need to know and who we need to hear it from.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s thoughtful. Screening the information I\u2019m given avoids confusing me with troubling thoughts and all that messy thinking for myself. Makes pulling the level for \u201cD\u201d much easier. Reminds me of my youthful Catholic catechism. The nuns flat-out said \u201cDon\u2019t read the Bible: the Pope already read it. We\u2019ll tell you what you need to know.\u201d<\/p>\n
Today, network anchors act as if they\u2019re the Pope, telling me only what I need to know.<\/p>\n
Works for me.<\/p>\n
Joe Doakes<\/p>\n
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I suppose that makes Lori Sturdevant “doctrinally infallible”…<\/p>\n
…but then, other than a brief stretch when the Jamestown district rented a couple rooms at the local Catholic school when our school was being torn down, I’ve never really had any Catholic education.<\/p>\n
Media catechism, on the other hand…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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