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Casualty coverage shows paper’s bias; William Alexander; Beaver County Times; April 2, 2010.
I could be mistaken, but I believe this is the William Alexander who normally signs his letters William H. Alexander (Beaver). This definitely is not William A. Alexander (Harmony Township).
Below is a detailed critique of the subject letter.
“Sunday’s paper reported (from The Associated Pravda) on the increased casualties in Afghanistan.
“I (and hopefully many others) have noticed over the past 16 months the paper’s previous insincere, ‘sympathetic, caring and noble’ reporting on the deaths and injuries (replete with photographs and names, repeated over and over) of our brave men and women in Iraq and Afghanistan ever so slowly diminished, and then finally disappeared completely a month or so ago.
“No accident that.
“Its purposeful action on this only proves what some of us realized all along. The paper had to savage the Bush administration at the cost of, in fact using, the sacrifices of our military to promote its liberal agenda.
“Now that we are still shedding blood in ‘Obama’s War,’ the paper has resorted to former ‘Saturday Night Live’ sage Emily Litella’s philosophy of ‘never mind.’ As attorney Joseph Welch said during the McCarthy Senate hearings, ‘Have you no shame?’
“As a veteran of military service, I think the paper’s shallow, politically opportunistic actions are abominable and show it for what it really is - not much.”
[RWC] I documented the Times duplicity in this area going back at least to 2007.
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