{"id":5278,"date":"2014-04-14T02:22:41","date_gmt":"2014-04-14T02:22:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/highplainsblogger.wordpress.com\/?p=5278"},"modified":"2014-04-14T02:22:41","modified_gmt":"2014-04-14T02:22:41","slug":"ingraham-joins-abc-so-what","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=5278","title":{"rendered":"Ingraham joins ABC … so what?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Media Matters is a left-wing journalism watchdog group that takes great delight in exposing Fox News Channel’s big lie that it is the “fair and balanced” cable news network.<\/p>\n

I agree — usually — with Media Matters’s take on Fox.<\/p>\n

However, I think the group if off base in attacking ABC News for hiring conservative radio talk show host Laura Ingraham as its newest “contributor.”<\/p>\n

http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/blog\/2014\/04\/13\/meet-abc-news-newest-contributor-laura-ingraham\/198871<\/p>\n

Why go after Media Matters on this one?<\/p>\n

Well, I am one who likes to see news\/commentary outlets offer wide-ranging points of view. Do I agree with Ingraham’s world view? No. However, she isn’t the first conservative voice to be heard on ABC’s “This Week” Sunday news talk show. Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol is a regular on the show, as was syndicated conservative columnist George Will before he left ABC to join the Fox News Channel’s Sunday talk show as a contributor.<\/p>\n

ABC, as does NBC’s “Meet the Press,” quite often invites conservatives and liberals to sit at the same round table to discuss issues of the day. They debate. They even argue.<\/p>\n

What is so wrong with that?<\/p>\n

CNN, arguably the pioneer news network, does much the same thing on any of its myriad political talk shows. Newt Gingrich and Van Jones — a rightie and a leftie, respectively — are regulars on CNN’s revamped “Crossfire” program.<\/p>\n

I don’t see why ABC is getting so worked up over Ingraham. Yes, she’s provocative and she occasionally crosses — what I consider, at least — the line of good taste and decency in making her points.<\/p>\n

You’ve heard the old term about the “marketplace of ideas.” It’s broad, wide, deep and varied. Let all voices be heard. We’ll be the judges of who’s right or wrong.<\/p>\n\n

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