Ex-Reporter MacDougall
The disclosure that MacDougall, a “left-winger,” had to sneak his ideas into his stories tells more about the stranglehold that conservatives have, and have long had, over the press of this country, and little to support the paranoid delusion that the press has a liberal bias.
It hardly seems to bother anyone that Vice President Dan Quayle’s father, a John Birch society member, owns a chain of newspapers through which he pushes a rather extreme right-wing ideology; or that Rupert Murdoch, when he owned the New York Post, overtly shilled for conservative candidates in his newspaper; or that the Rev. Sun Myung Moon, a holder of extreme, if not dangerous right-wing views, owns the Washington Times newspaper, and so on.
The charge that the establishment press is filled with left-wing reporters is part and parcel of that paranoid personality disorder that fires the ravings of those self-appointed right-wing media monitors like Accuracy in Media and Human Events.
HENRY J. SHAMES
Santa Barbara
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