I haven't written anything in the way of an op-ed piece in quite some time now. I'd honestly wondered if I have lost my touch. Like, was getting my book published the peak experience I will ever have? I don't want it to be that way. As I wrote in the final pages of my book, I have spent half a lifetime fighting something that has taken so much from me. Getting that back matters an awful lot.
This morning American Thinker, a site I've long admired, published my first essay for a wider audience since January of last year. "Holding the Media Responsible for the SPLC Scandal" is something that I must confess I had some pleasure in writing. For decades I've watched too many journalists cite Southern Poverty Law Center as a legitimate source of information. I can only imagine the looks on the faces of those journalists after the recent indictments against SPLC were handed down.
From the article:
The mainstream liberal media exists within a bubble, beyond which is a reality that it cannot comprehend. That Southern Poverty Law Center apparently engaged in criminal activity is something that does not compute with most journalists and editors. In fact, it’s downright impossible for them to conceive of the notion. It comes down to emotions and vague intentions. SPLC didn’t really mean to break the law, those of the leftist media will try to persuade us with. “They were only doing good,” we will be told.
It’s very simple with such minds: SPLC was an absolute good and thus anything they stood against was an absolute evil. And even now, they will refuse to admit that an organization they had considered so righteous has actually been exceedingly nefarious in funding those very racists they have portrayed themselves as opposing.
As always, thoughts and comments are more than welcome.
1 comments:
Excellent article Chris. I hope you write many more!
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