Good News

The Deseret Morning News one of Salt Lake City's two daily newspapers has been running reports from their own reporter from the Republican Convention. What a blast of fresh air! None of the jaded, condescending drivel we get typically from the news services and the Big City newspapers. It sounds like an exciting place to be.

It also makes the demonstrators sound like a bunch of jerks, which is what most of them are. When did we begin to assume that just because you come out and carry signs and get publicity the rest of society is obligated to accede to your demands?

I wrote to the reporter and complimented him on reports that didn't make the convention sound like a plot against humanity. He thanked me because he'd mostly gotten a lot of complaints from New Yorkers. I try to do that once in a while. Them them what I like as well as what I don't. This reporter is not reporting to New York City, he's reporting to Utah. I was taught that writers are supposed to consider their audience, which is assumed to be someone other than the Pulitzer Prize committee. This country deserves to hear the news straight and with some respect for how the non-journalists among us see the world.