Why The News Journal Sucks!

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I don't know if you missed it, but DelawareLiberal has been mentioned in the News Journal twice in the past two weeks. Both times, we were trotted out to smack us around. The most egregious was the mention on Sunday about our recent change in personnel. The other mention seems trivial, but it is a little more insidious. Smitty saw it and pointed it out to us. The discussion of DL was that we were trading in baseless rumors.

The New Wingnut Lie — Death Books for Vets

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Have you heard about this one? An ex-Bush appointee, Jim Towey -- one in charge of the White House Office of Faith-Based Initiatives under BushCo (!) -- writes an op-ed in the WSJ painting a booklet that provides some guidance on end-of-life planning and claims that it deliberately steers vets towards death. This would be, of course, wrong. The HuffPo has some great info on this, but the first thing you should know about Mr.Jim Towey and this current jihad of lies is this:

Absence of Journalism

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One of our frequent targets of derision is The News Journal -- from their inexplicable and often wrong keeper of the Delaware Way Mr. Ron Williams, to some of their very shallow reporting of local politics -- this is a paper that doesn't seem to know from the "paper of record"