Just prior to the start of Utah’s legislative session, the Deseret News wrote a nasty editorial full of personal attacks and race-baiting remarks. I commented on it in my Preemptive Race Baiting blog post (includes a link to the original editorial). In that post I made the following prediction:
Unfortunately, in today’s politics, race baiting and personal attacks happen but I can’t wait until, a few weeks from now, the Deseret News prints the obligatory editorial decrying the personal nature of politics, wishing everyone would hammer out policy in a civil manner.
OK, it did take longer than a few weeks but guess what:
In the past, the Deseret Morning News has had “enhancing civil discourse” as one of its yearly goals. Judging by recent events, we either didn’t do much of a job, or the issue needs to be revisited.
That’s the intro line to the editorial written last Friday (I didn’t bring it up then - had other issues I was more interested in).
Anyway there’s a taste of the local drive-by media for you.
