{"id":1854,"date":"2009-04-24T18:43:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-24T18:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/highplainsblogger.wordpress.com\/2009\/04\/24\/once-more-with-conviction"},"modified":"2009-04-24T18:43:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-24T18:43:00","slug":"once-more-with-conviction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=1854","title":{"rendered":"Once more, with conviction"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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I am about to scream.<\/p>\n

The other day, I received a submission from an occasional contributor to the Opinion page. She lives in Amarillo. Her submission wasn’t very good. She wanted me to give her space for a guest column. I declined, and suggested she condense it to a letter-length submission (around 200 words).<\/p>\n

Then I received this response from her: “Other conservatives told me you would not print it, as it is contrary to your viewpoint, so I am not surprised.”<\/p>\n

I responded with this note: “Your friends are wrong … If you would just read the letters and columns we do run, you wouldn’t say such a thing. Nor would they. We present all points of view. We present many … conservative columnists: Krauthammer, Goldberg, Williams, O’Reilly, Malkin, Parker every single week. I would be derelict in my duty if I limited … commentary to just those with which I agree.”<\/p>\n

And, of course, I didn’t mention the conservative local contributors who take time to write letters to the editor.<\/p>\n

I wear at least a couple of hats here. I get to write opinions; some are published over my own name, while most appear as editorials that speak for the newspaper. I also am a gatekeeper of all the other opinions that fly in over the transom each day. I strive daily to provide a balance of opinion — from the left and the right. My lefty friends say I’m descended from Attila the Hun; my righty friends call me a Commie Pinko. I figure, given the breadth of criticism, that I’m doing my job.<\/p>\n

Mission accomplished<\/em>.<\/div>\n\n

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