Quote of the Day: “No one can really understand the political left without understanding that they are about making themselves feel superior, however much they may talk piously about what they are going to do to help others.” Thomas Sowell
I’ve noted before that two or three times a week, TheRecord is a mere 18 or 20 pages. Now, considering that the Ask Ellie column and the horoscope is half a page (why???) and the weather is another half a page (really?) and the local TV listings is half a page (seriously?) and TheKit is normally half a page and there are about 4 pages of ads, that really doesn’t leave my room for real news, now does it? Today the paper is a total 24 pages but 5 of those pages are some IWD adverts, so in reality the paper is only 19 pages. So, with this rather limited real estate, you would expect the Editors to try to give us the most important news as possible. I’m not exactly sure what financial contracts they have with the Associated Press, Reuters, Canadian Press, Thompson, NYT, WaPo etc. etc. but I’m sure they have literally hundreds, if not thousands of columns and articles to choose from every day. That’s why, I read with a real bewilderment, that the Editors chose to publish a third of a page article that featured President Jimmy Carter condemning Republicans of strengthening voting in his home state of Georgia. The article states that he was upset by these new rules around mail in voting ballots, then he in fact suggested these same rules back in 2005. The article by the AP (or Administration Press as some people like to call it…) makes it seem that these rules are somehow restricting voting rights – when just the opposite is true. Yup, 19 pages and a third of a page goes to this nonsense. Am I getting my money’s worth from my subscription?