Fwd: [Peace-discuss] DI editorial board votes against democracy

[Jan & Durl Kruse]

> As a member of AWARE......and very pleased that come November I will 
> be able to vote on a township advisory ballot to bring the troops home 
> and impeach Bush/Cheney......I could care less what the DI prints or 
> thinks.
> However, it is always amazing to learn how uninformed and politically 
> unaware some students appear to be in 2006.
> I can almost imagine a vastly different editorial if there were a 
> military draft or if these students had any personal connection to the 
> concept of peace and justice.
> The government, media, churches, schools and apparently universities 
> are failing this generation!
> But I guess in reality the editors of the DI are just putting forth 
> the message the governemnt, media.........etc. have sold them 
> on....fall in line and only challenge those who question..........The 
> DI seems a perfect trailing ground for future corporate media 
> "Journalists".......Are there any Amy Goodman's at the DI?
> Student News Papers sure have fallen into decline ....... much like 
> newspapers everywhere......
> The favorable thing about such an editorial in the DI is the space 
> they gave themselves to bring attention to their version of what 
> happened on April 11.............Must be a number of young republicans 
> on the DI editorial staff?????? Were any of them actually at the 
> meeting they write about? It hardly appears that they were there.

>  I Guess AWARE can count this as free publicity to inform the bored DI 
> readers that come November they too will have a say about what's being 
> done in our name and with our tax dollars even if the DI editors and 
> some city council members opposes our opportunity to do so.
> JAN K
> On Apr 18, 2006, at 11:14 AM, Wendy Edwards wrote:
>
>> OK, reality check.  This is the same paper that thought that 
>> publishing
>> the cartoons about Muslims was a good idea.  It also runs regular 
>> columns
>> by Bambi.  People I know only read it when they're sitting in a really
>> boring class.  Why do people in AWARE even care what the DI editorial
>> staff thinks?
>>
>> Wendy
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