EMAIL OF THE DAY

“To the list of reasons you gave for the increasing extremism on the left, I would like to add one more, and arguably the primary reason. They had grown used to having a total monopoly on the information rationed out to the American people. With control of all network news and entertainment and most big-screen entertainment, the challenges to their opinions were only seen by their most conservative opponents, never by the “mainstream”. I put that work in quotes, because I mean the true center of the population, while the media has consistently used the term to mean the fairly extreme left wing.
Probably that is why they have reacted so strongly to the cancellation of The Reagans. This was an abandonment by their true heartland. It also explains the violence of their language when they talk about Fox News and talk radio. They react as OPEC would react to a new source that started selling 50 million barrels a day of petroleum at $2 per barrel.” – good point, as ever. More feedback on the Letters Page.