LETTERS SUBMITTED THAT DO NOT
GET PRINTED IN THE NEWSPAPER

Reference: "American Tale," p. 19, 1/24/09 Rocky Mountain News.

By devoting nearly two broadsheet pages (a whopping 164.5 col. Inches of news space) to glorify Gov. Bill Ritter’s appointment to the U.S. Senate, the Rocky Mountain News confirms that Denver may need only one major newspaper, after all.

Two supposedly opposing publications with both using their news columns to further the new liberal Progressive political machine in Colorado is one too many. About the only distinction now between the News and The Denver Post is in their editorial pages, but that too at the News is being overrun with Progressive-minded columnists, e.g. instead of Tom Sowell, we get a C.U. professor of law.

That Michael Bennet comes from a notable background is touching, but what he does not know about Colorado would probably fill a book. This handicap was made embarrassingly clear when Ritter had to take him around the state to introduce him. At whose expense will he gain experience?

Promoting political ideology in the news columns is not an honorable journalistic mission. Small wonder the press is going down the tubes.

(s) Percy Conarroe