THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1994, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: SUNDAY, June 12, 1994 TAG: 9406100016
SECTION: COMMENTARY PAGE: J4 EDITION: FINAL
SOURCE: Medium
DATELINE: 940612 LENGTH:
The most important feature of an editorial page is not liberal, moderate or conservative slants. Fairness is the real issue. Unfortunately, liberals are rarely fair, as Julia Bristow's letter illustrates (``New editor is out of touch,'' June 5).
{REST} Ms. Bristow blames all Hampton Roads' and society's problems on several weeks of alleged conservative bias.
The media are overwhelmingly liberal - 80 percent-plus. What the media ignore is often more important than what goes on the pages. I've seen letter after letter ignored when The Virginian-Pilot and The Ledger-Star were liberally fair to their readers.
I also remember when prayer vanished from the schools. As a second-grader about to pray over lunch with my classmates, the teacher said we couldn't. Did a liberal heritage cause the consistent decline in every social and leadership indicator in America since the loss of prayer in the schools?
Were my rights violated as an innocent 7-year-old then? The liberal agenda apparently justifies only the free exercise of pornography for profit, abortion for profit, abortion for personal freedom and the love of money, at best.
Writing this letter on June 6, 50 years after the D-Day invasion, I can only wonder if our liberal friends would have fought for the rights they take advantage of now - the same freedom many Americans died to maintain.
I've seen the moral agenda in America fade into the background with the rise of the liberal media. Liberals have little respect for fairness or quality of life.
What is clear is the spiritual nature of America's problems. Eliminating prayer in the schools was the best thing to happen to illustrate the real nature of our fight. The same liberal and nationalistic agenda that created Hitler has moved to America.
PATRICK FLYNN
Kitty Hawk, N.C., June 6, 1994 by CNB