LA Times dying to do a downer

Hugh Hewitt:

So I unwrapped the Sunday Los Angeles Times. The cover story on the magazine? "Who's Dying in Our War."

Given that these stories are planned and their covers budgeted weeks and months in advance, can anyone imagine the thought process that accompanied this selection for this morning? A story on the sacrifice of the nearly 1,500 Americans killed and 10,000+ wounded is almost always appropriate, unless it isn't intended to be a story on their sacrifice and the suffering of their families, but is instead a crude manipulation ala Michael Moore of grief and loss to serve a political end that exploits that sacrifice to diminish it.

That's my reaction to this cover this morning. Some jerk or jerks at the Los Angeles Times decided to use the death of Americans to detract from the victory they secured over fascism and terror. They knew it would be a day of celebration in Iraq, but rather than celebrate with the Iraqi people, they chose today to run a story designed to diminish American appreciation of the achievement won at such a high cost.

The Tribune Company has experienced continuing declines in circulation over the past few months and "circulation revenues were down 6 percent, mainly due to declines in Los Angeles and New York," according to the company. One explanation offered by the company is that it has been hit by the "do not call" list. I suggest that in Los Angeles it has been hit by former subscriber disgust with the "do not stop insulting the readership" ethic that puts Bush hatred above everything else, and does not hesitate to stoop so low as to exploit American dead on the very day the result of their sacrifice is most obvious.


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