Anti-Catholic Minneapolis Star Tribune
Didn't take very long to write that blog post title, and I hope it's one other bloggers may chose to propagate.
The Anti-Catholic Star Tribune chose to print Archbishop Neinstedt's response to an inaccurate and bigoted columnist as a 'letter to the editor' entry at the bottom of an editorial page, queued third in line behind similarly inaccurate and bigoted entries; a middle-finger salute compliments of a dying member of the dinosaur media which caters only to a core inner city ultra-liberal audience which they dread to lose, because following that final loss they'll have nothing. It couldn't happen too soon.
Form here means everything. The Archbishop's eloquent response deserved at minimum a guest columnist presentation but was instead relegated to the 2girl1cup revomitorium. I'm certain the skeleton crew editorial board clutching onto their jobs at the Strib anguished over whether his response should be printed at all, considering that the Archbishop now writes for the much smaller Catholic Spirit and the two papers are on a steady course to equal one another for circulation. The Star Tribune shouldn't look for any further contributions from the Archbishop, although that was probably the intention.
Not long ago the Anti-Catholic Star Tribune gave its opinion column walking papers to the talented James Lilek but kept the bitter old joke, and in doing so clarified why much of their conservative readership and half of their monetary value has abandoned them. Down an additional 6.5% in circulation and suffering comparable industry-wide ad revenue attrition during the six months ending in Sept., the paper is beginning to rival the weight of small, flattened roadkill. Those who profess a love of Mother Earth have yet to explain how they can excuse the continued existence of a 19th century institution who's main activity is to kill trees and create waste.
Archbishop Neinstedt's reasoned response accurately reflected not only the views of the Catechism, Magisterium, hierarchy and tradition, but of traditionally minded homosexual Catholics who freely accept doctrine. Antagonists such as bitter old joke are willingly self-blinded to this reality, and similar know-nothings seem doomed to discount as irrelevant any semblance of the overwhelming opinion among the laity agreeing with basic Catholic tenents regarding the nature of sin and mercy of God.
The Anti-Catholic Star Tribune chose to print Archbishop Neinstedt's response to an inaccurate and bigoted columnist as a 'letter to the editor' entry at the bottom of an editorial page, queued third in line behind similarly inaccurate and bigoted entries; a middle-finger salute compliments of a dying member of the dinosaur media which caters only to a core inner city ultra-liberal audience which they dread to lose, because following that final loss they'll have nothing. It couldn't happen too soon.
Form here means everything. The Archbishop's eloquent response deserved at minimum a guest columnist presentation but was instead relegated to the 2girl1cup revomitorium. I'm certain the skeleton crew editorial board clutching onto their jobs at the Strib anguished over whether his response should be printed at all, considering that the Archbishop now writes for the much smaller Catholic Spirit and the two papers are on a steady course to equal one another for circulation. The Star Tribune shouldn't look for any further contributions from the Archbishop, although that was probably the intention.
Not long ago the Anti-Catholic Star Tribune gave its opinion column walking papers to the talented James Lilek but kept the bitter old joke, and in doing so clarified why much of their conservative readership and half of their monetary value has abandoned them. Down an additional 6.5% in circulation and suffering comparable industry-wide ad revenue attrition during the six months ending in Sept., the paper is beginning to rival the weight of small, flattened roadkill. Those who profess a love of Mother Earth have yet to explain how they can excuse the continued existence of a 19th century institution who's main activity is to kill trees and create waste.
Archbishop Neinstedt's reasoned response accurately reflected not only the views of the Catechism, Magisterium, hierarchy and tradition, but of traditionally minded homosexual Catholics who freely accept doctrine. Antagonists such as bitter old joke are willingly self-blinded to this reality, and similar know-nothings seem doomed to discount as irrelevant any semblance of the overwhelming opinion among the laity agreeing with basic Catholic tenents regarding the nature of sin and mercy of God.
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James Lileks/ Minneapolis Star Tribune toon from earlier this year.
posted by Dan Lacey at 8:45 PM
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