What's on your MSM's Sunday op ed page?

Here's what's in the Boston Globe, that bastion of liberalism.

http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/

TODAY'S GLOBE EDITORIALS

Smoke screens
WEYCO INC., a Michigan medical benefits administrator, is bullying employees into being healthy by threatening to fire them for smoking in their own homes as well as at work -- and the policy is perfectly legal.

Beyond entry level
IN A WORLD of lists -- from richest to worst dressed -- the Women's Union has come up with a life-changing tool: the top 25 jobs that can help poor women become self-sufficient. The 25 include dental hygienists, nurses, computer specialists, plumbers, electricians, real estate agents, and construction workers -- all jobs with a high number of openings that pay ...

Footnotes
THE SNOW tells many stories in the tracks crisscrossing its canvas, but a person often has trouble reading them. Squirrel? Rabbit? Coyote chasing rabbit? Possum playing dead? Bear? Couldn't be a bear -- could it?

To be fair, the Globe wrote two lengthy pieces, on 2/2 & 2/10, before the story really broke: "White House-friendly reporter under scrutiny" & "Reporter tied to GOP quits over scrutiny." See the Massachusetts forum - http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=158x2936

If yours, like mine, has nary a mention of Mangate, I suggest you and I submit for their edification Jack Rabbit's "The Gannon Scandal: It's not about sex, but the press and democracy", challenging them to wake up and smell the ink, to get in touch with reality.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x3143876

We cannot afford to let this scandal be swept under the carpet.

when I realized how much it was controlling the news in WhatsHisFace's favor. However, we continue to get the newspaper because my husband likes the sports section.

On the op-ed page, there are only two national columnists featured:

David Broder: "GOP plan must get past the GOP first" -- about social security "reform".

Ellen Goodman: "Will Democracy be good for Iraq's Women?"

I'm willing to bet that these two columns are a week or two old. I base that on the fact that the columns of one of my favorite writers, Maureen Dowd, periodically run in the Times-Picayune as a counter to the conservative writers' columns, but I've noticed that when Dowd's columns are published, they are usually out-of-date, & most important, they are the most innocuous of her columns. The really good ones seem to be skipped over by the Times-Picayune. Thank goodness, I get the NYTimes online.

I did notice that there were two LTTE's that were critical of this administration:

One is about the "disappearing social security":

In part, "Before Bush, we knew Social Security was more than forced retirement savings. It is for retirees and also for those who, through no fault of their own, need help: the disabled, orphaned, etc.

"As for labeling Bush 'insensitive and mean-spirited,' it isn't a label, Cal (Thomas), it's a fact. 'Compassionate conservative' is a contradiction in terms."

The other is titled "A Pattern of Propaganda"

"Re: 'Invasion of the reporter snatchers,' Other Opinions, Feb. 18:

"The American people have very good reason to be concerned about the ways in which political manipulation is influencing journalism. There is an ongoing pattern of propaganda by the Bush administration that must be stopped. Let's hold our elected officials accountable for this reinvention of the press. Contact them and express yourself."

Wow, maybe I should check out the op-ed pages more often. :) (Hmm, do I really live in a red state, or was that determined by faulty voting statistics in a faulty election? ;))

if you haven't seen it already
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=3146465

Thanks, i miss america! :hi:

...has Al Martinez talking about how stupid "reality" TV is and getting in some good digs on ** and his "REAL" reality, which is pretty appalling. That was a good one. Then we have the local editor talking about how devastating **'s opposition to the CDBGs would be to all the good projects around here. "Anchorage stands to pay a high price for President Bush's skewed fiscal priorities." We have another local columnist talking about ethics (lack thereof) of our state attorney general who just resigned over conflict-of-interest issues, and how certain "ethically challenged" legislators in the Alaska legislature don't want to deal with it. The word "hubris" plays a prominent part. We have former governor Wally Hickel giving attaboys to University of Alaska, and then some historical piece that I didn't read.

ADN is generally pretty progressive (they supported John Kerry and Tony Knowles in the general election), although they do carry Cal Thomas and some other conservatives just for some balance, I guess. And one corner of the OpEd page is given to the old right-wing Anchorage Times which the News took over several years ago...and they regularly spew there, but I never read it.