There’s something going around among the media that has them openly and arrogantly professing their bias. Take this column by a religion writer a the Chicago Sun-Times, in which she describes her reaction upon hearing of the death of Jerry Falwell:
In fact, my very first thought upon hearing of the Rev. Falwell’s passing was: Good.
And I didn’t mean “good” in a oh-good-he’s-gone-home-to-be-with-the-Lord kind of way. I meant “good” as in “Ding-dong, the witch is dead.”
Religion writers seem to be among the most liberal of reporters, at least the ones I’ve worked with over the years. The Herald-Sun had one who was a downright socialist. This one seems to be of the same cut. They rail about the Religious Right but don’t seem to see that there is a Religious Left whose intolerance (like their own) is far greater. Like this:
People who know both of us have told me over the years that we’d probably have liked each other, the Rev. Falwell and I, that he was an affable, almost jolly man, not nearly as smug and awful as his public persona made him out to be.
I’m sure, were he real, Tony Soprano also would make a charming dinner companion, sharing his lasagna and an expensive bottle of Orvieto while telling great stories and asking how your grandmother’s doing in the home. And then he’d have you whacked and thrown over the side of his deep-sea fishing boat. But he’d send flowers to the funeral.
That’s nice. Falwell and a mafioso are two peas in a pod. Even more appalling that Kathleen Falsani’s column is the fact that some editor thought it made sense to run it and tell all of the Sun-Times‘ readers what a biased and hateful (in her own liberal way) reporter they have covering the God beat.
