Letter To The Grand Forks Herald: Why Didn’t You Cover The Tea Party?
The dissatisfaction with North Dakota’s mainstream media continues to grow:
NORTHWOOD, N.D. — I must say I am extremely disappointed about the Herald’s lack of coverage of the tea party that took place July 2 in Bismarck. There were more than 1,000 people gathered from North Dakota, Minnesota, South Dakota and beyond. You took the time to cover Sen. Byron Dorgan visiting with a few people, yet when 1,000 people gather to promote the U.S. Constitution, which, as James Madison put it, “is the greatest single effort of national deliberation the world has ever seen,” and as our first president remarked, “approaches nearer to perfection than any government hitherto instituted among men,” you are silent.
It is shocking to me that a 1,000-plus person demonstration was ignored. As one sign said, “Norwegians protesting? Uffda, it must be bad.” This is not about Republicans or Democrats. We did not approve of TARP one offered under George W. Bush.
But the spending in the past six months, that is more than every administration in the past 30 years, is outrageous. It was the last straw that finally got this Norwegian off the couch. The speed at which Obama and Congress is moving our country further from freedom and closer to tyranny is unbelievable and unconstitutional. I would hope the voices of 1,000-plus nonviolent, concerned people is worth a few drops of ink.
At some point, reporters in this state are going to have to learn that “news” is more than just whatever is on the press releases they get.
