Editorial Bias Archives

Not Exactly William Loeb III’s N.H. Union Leader Anymore

September 26, 2018January 10, 2013 Rick Olson

“I would rather have a competent extremist than an incompetent moderate.” —Leon Jaworski

In life change is inevitable. Sometimes change is good. Other times, change is not so good. Then there are times where change is merely a change that we might individually do not care much for.

The New Hampshire Union Leader, once a reliably conservative publication established in 1863 out of the Frank Knox moderation strain, (moving decidedly right under the leadership of William Loeb III and Bernard J. McQuaid) is now part of a “new media era” sometimes showing

Editorial Second Guessing And Blind Hypocrisy

September 26, 2018August 1, 2012 Rick Olson

“A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood.” —William Shenstone

The Keene Sentinel , last Thursday, featured an editorial, positing the question, “Could an armed citizen have stopped the shooter? But they never really answer the question and instead make an argument that we should move toward more gun control.

The opening paragraph states,

Anyone who has ever aimed and discharged a firearm knows that accuracy depends on a number of things — the eye of the shooter, the weapon in use, levels of training and experience. There’s also the matter of setting. Hitting a target at a shooting range, with pulse steady and trigger squeezed, is not the same as, say, taking down a gunman in a darkened theater that’s filled with tear gas and screaming, panic-stricken movie-goers.

Concord Monitor’s Editorial Shell Games

September 26, 2018May 3, 2011 Rick Olson

“For a moment, at least, a nation united” the headline informs in the Concord Monitor. The monitor editorial continues on reflecting on the losses born out of 9/11, on the battlefields of Afghanistan and Iraq and how our lives have changed since, all of which is very stoic and reflective. But leave it to those … Read more