Denver Post Doubles Down on Bush

Congratulations to the Denver Post editorial staff for inventing a new genera of Journalism – The Repeating Opinion Piece (ROP). In its Sunday edition (8/14/05), John Aloysius Farrell got to slam the Bush Administration on Page One, 2nd-term doldrums Analysis and then he got to repeat all his best shots (often verbatim) on the front page of Second A Section, The Nation.
More examples of ROP are found in the same edition, page 10A, Social Security 70th birthday and James Roosevelt Jr.’s guest commentary in Perspective. Both pieces use the exact same 1935 photograph and both hammer away at Bush’s efforts to save Soc. Sec. When they just can’t distort the record of this Republican Administration enough, first time through, why not just repeat the same stuff again later on in the same paper? Genius! But why stop there? How about bashing Bush on every page? Why report on trivial stuff like Sports and Travel when they could be ripping the President a new one in every article? A few weeks of that innovative journalism and maybe everybody will learn to hate George Bush just like those guys do. In the meanwhile they can get ad support from Air America Radio, NARAL and George Soros’ Center for American Progress, whoops, my mistake, out of business, sorry.

Congratulations to the Denver Post editorial staff for inventing a new genera of Journalism – The Repeating Opinion Piece (ROP). In its Sunday edition (8/14/05), John Aloysius Farrell got to slam the Bush Administration on Page One, 2nd-term doldrums Analysis and then he got to repeat all his best shots (often verbatim) on the front page of Second A Section, The Nation.
More examples of ROP are found in the same edition, page 10A, Social Security 70th birthday and James Roosevelt Jr.’s guest commentary in Perspective. Both pieces use the exact same 1935 photograph and both hammer away at Bush’s efforts to save Soc. Sec. When they just can’t distort the record of this Republican Administration enough, first time through, why not just repeat the same stuff again later on in the same paper? Genius! But why stop there? How about bashing Bush on every page? Why report on trivial stuff like Sports and Travel when they could be ripping the President a new one in every article? A few weeks of that innovative journalism and maybe everybody will learn to hate George Bush just like those guys do. In the meanwhile they can get ad support from Air America Radio, NARAL and George Soros’ Center for American Progress, whoops, my mistake, out of business, sorry.

Congratulations to the Denver Post editorial staff for inventing a new genera of Journalism – The Repeating Opinion Piece (ROP)…….