Infiltrating Center-Right Media

by: Adam Bink

Thu Oct 01, 2009 at 20:00

A little personal background on me, I attended the University of Rochester from 2002-2006, during which time I interacted with the D&C quite a fair amount. We worked with on them when organizing against the start of the Iraq war, organizing to pressure the U of R administration to bar ROTC recruiters from campus before the Supreme Court decision, organizing in favor of same-sex marriage. The editorial board is wholly right-leaning, and even many of the staff writers are not very independent, and very dismissive of anything progressive. Like the op-ed page in the Buffalo News (my hometown paper), there are far more George Wills and Kathleen Parkers printed on a daily basis than Paul Krugmans.

David's column is now being considered for a regular spot in the D&C, and James Lawrence, the ed page editor, is asking for comments. Please head on over, register, and tell Lawrence you'd like to see his column printed. Hell, even if you spar with David here, I think we can all agree the D&C would be more interesting with him in it.

And if you'd like to see David's column improve your own staid, center-right newspaper, he left some instructions for doing so in a recent post at OpenLeft:

The column relies on grassroots support -- and because of that support, it is getting wider and wider circulation (a big thank you to all who have helped with that). So if you'd like to see my column regularly in your local paper, use this directory to find the contact info for your local editorial page editors. Get get in touch with them and point them to my Creators Syndicate site. Thanks, as always, for your ongoing readership and help contacting local editors. This column couldn't be what it is without your help.