Sorry for mis-characterizing you based on our Google findings.

We should know better by now.

The AP contacted me a few months after I posted my comment. At the time I declined and told them to contact me in 18 months, after I got laid off. The AP fellow that wrote the story, Matt Apuzzo, contacted me just about a month ago.

If anyone wants to contact me, email me at ParisTheChick@yahoo.com.

BTW – the book that someone found was written by some guy with the same name as mine. I have found 11 other people named “Paris Welch” so far.

Because that guy’s vote can be purchased by Barney Franks, who hates being a drooling obese obnoxious queer and relishes the opportunity to assuage his self-hatred by ruining the country and sticking it to guys like you and me.

No need for apologies for the way you thought in your youth. Even though I voted for Reagan in my first election, I did so because I felt anything was better than Carter. It wasn’t until eight years later that I really began to set down and establish my conservative roots. And this was only because a co-worker of mine who seemed friendly at first suddenly became hateful and spiteful when he found out that I was conservative and pro-life. It was my eye opening moment of just how mean and vindictive liberals can be when you don’t agree with their views. On a funnier note, I remember my late father (a crusty lovable old grouch) deciding to brave the crowds and go out and vote during the Reagan/Carter election. He was gone for over an hour and when he came back I asked him if he got a chance to vote. My father said, “You bet I did boy! I flipped that lever and I voted all those sonsofbitches out of office.” To this day my family still roars with laughter when we remember him saying this.

contempt.

I respect honor and integrity. I couldn’t tolerate being around “journalists”.

Yon and Totten are two who are what journalists ought to be. Why do you think nobody knows who they are?

By the way, if I wanted to debase myself, I wouldn’t need to take any classes. Like anyone reading this web-site, I was as capable as TV anchors when I reached the age of 12. We didn’t have spell checkers then, so I would have had a 30 second learning curve to become a print “journalist”. As a potential “journalist” today, I could get off on the right foot by lying about my “training”, but I’m not pretty enough to get a job. And somebody would check background, since I’m not “diverse” enough either.

Newspapers have always been propaganda since the beginning of our country. Expectations that they should be anything different might be the source of your frustration. The problem seems to be that Republicans tend to look at things in more of a business sense and when a paper loses money, they either fold it or sell it. Democrats tend to look at the press in more ideological terms and are willing to take an economic loss for political gain.

“proreason
December 2nd, 2008 at 10:57 am ”

“The left has captured the universities. Journalism schools are a hotbed of liberalism / Marxism.”

True in many cases but there are plenty of colleges with a more conservative faculty. Those colleges tend, for whatever reason, not to offer journalism courses. But the military even has schools in journalism and has reporters, TV news anchors, various “public affairs” offices, etc. So there are alternative ways for people to gain experience outside of the conventional newspapers. And there are plenty of small town local papers left with a more conservative view.

And as I mentioned in an earlier comment in this thread, UPI picked up articles from bloggers such as Bill Roggio. I would also consider Michael Yon and Michael Totten to be journalists.

What is stopping YOU from being a journalist? Have you attempted to write any balanced articles and publish them on the web or submit them to a paper for publishing? Go to a local community college and start taking composition courses, etc. I know I could benefit from such a thing. We all probably could.

me too. I declared I would leave the country if Reagan was elected.

It wasn’t until the mid 90’s that I began to think for myself.

I didn’t attend a particularly liberal college, but I look back at the reading assignments, and there was nothing with an alternative viewpoint. I thought Cronkite was the soul of objectivity.

Besides, we were all busy working and trying to become adults. I didn’t have time to think about political issues. Didn’t care. I had already been handed my opinions and I was stickin to em.

And I know very smart young people today who are exactly the same way. I have a brilliant 40 year-old friend who “knew” Sarah Palin (he viscerally hates her) thought Africa was a country, but didn’t know that Obama’s coming out party was in Bill Ayers home. When I pointed it out, he was blase. He was for Obama, period. He also doesn’t think the Democrats have anything to do with the financial crisis. He hates Bush, period.

huh?

The left has captured the universities. Journalism schools are a hotbed of liberalism / Marxism. It is impossible to complete a “journalism” curriculum and not be a leftist. By the time you get out, it’s in your blood. Disbelievers are hounded out of the schools.

Then the mainstream media deselects those not indoctinated enough. By that time, they don’t even know how biased they are. Shep Smith, the famous Fox news reader (anybody reading this can do his job, if you are pretty enough) is contemptuous of the myth of press bias. How can all his friends be biased? In his mind, it’s impossible. He and his friends “reflect” the public. Could that be a closed loop? And he is the head news reader for the only network with a semblance of balance.

“vacating the field” has nothing to do with it. Except for a handful of newspapers, and Fox News, nobody but an uber-leftist can get a job or move up in the field (since you couldn’t call it a “profession”. Professions have standards.). Small local newspapers have some exceptions (in the sports and business departments), but the general rule holds true. Toe the liberal line, or find another line of work.

I agree that we need more Murdoch’s to step up. There is obviously a market for true news reporting rather than news-oriented propaganda.

The leftist press selected Obama. “Educators” get the kids first, then “journalists” hammer in the propaganda. Unless conservatives attack that core problem, alternative views will continue to be more and more marginalized.

I remember the campus covered with spray-painted messages on sidewalks reading “Reagan ‘84 = (mushroom cloud graphic) ‘85.”

I also readily admit I was a liberal in my younger (read: Junior High School) days; growing up watching M*A*S*H will do that to you.

(When I catch a rerun now and then I simply can’t believe how hard left that show was and how many of my political opinions of the time were based on what Hawkeye thought of the military, the war and the world in general.)

I clearly remember chastising my Dad when he told me he voted for Reagan in 1980 because “he’s going to get us into a nuclear war!” and asking why he didn’t vote to re-elect Carter.

Yes, I have apologized to my Dad about that since then, in fact several thousand times. :-)

Inmate found in DeKalb
By J.D. Davidson
The Times-Journal

Published December 1, 2008

A woman serving a six-month sentence for perjury apparently walked away from a work release program in Madison County and was found in Bryant, according to DeKalb County Sheriff Jimmy Harris.

Last week, according to Harris, Brandy Nicole Cook, left the parameters of her program without permission. Madison County confirmed Cook could be in DeKalb County.

Harris said local authorities get a warrent for Cook’s arrest.

Deputy Gary Hill received information Cook was in the area, and he arrested her County Road 696 in the Dawson Community near Crossville on Sand Mountain. She was charged with violation of work release.

Cook, 27, was serving a six-month work release program on a sentence she received in Madison County in July 2008 on charges of first-degree perjury. On October 30, Cook had apparently left the work release program without permission of work or jail supervisors and came to the Dawson area, where she reportedly has family, Harris said.

http://times-journal.com/story.....WNV2EC2F28