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Although agnostic I have to admit I have been blessed -- I've been allergic to news rags/papers/ink for several years and that's especially true for the DOG rag!

Well said!

Edna at Matilda on the Rock was right on the money this morning. I would suggest that the DOG drop its editorial section, opinion section (that includes a lot of those "Style"-type section fluffs), and possibly the Letters (not only to the editor, but to Heloise, Abby, & Rev Billy G). Add more comics and more world news.
It definitely would improve the quality of the paper and might possibly increase circulation. And, think of the money they would save in salaries for those who opine (or is it whine?) about their pet peeves.
And, I want a section as big as the Sports section that is devoted to education, schools, students, and academic achievement.

Ooops! Tex Ritter is whispering in my ear something about waking up.

I have my own reasons for not liking the D*G editorial page, but this is just plain silly.

"the inability to allow a dissenting opinion" -- You mean Paul Krugman, Maureen Dowd, and racist letter-writers aren't "dissenting opinions"?

"their racism demonstrated by deriding a majority of the school board as a gang" -- So disagreeing with someone who happens to be black is "racism"?

"their printing letters to the editor with words like "niggernado'" -- So you don't like the fact they print "dissenting opinion"?

The D*G editorial staff has its vices, and I've even name pettiness as one. But Matilda's rant equals or surpasses the D*G in pettiness.

Wow, jmv, are you an editorial writer for the Dem-Gaz?

I confess, I don't begrudge the Dem-Gaz its editorial opinions and I like the letters to the editor...its good to be reminded sometimes that the knuckle-dragging Neanderthaals are still out there. The Dem-Gaz is what it is, and there are plenty of other more enlightened opinions out there to read - the Arkansas Times, of course, but also the Washington Post, New York Times, any number of blogs. Thanks to the Internet, the days when we were limited to one (or even two, during the newspaper war) newspapers to choose from are over.

" It's not the lies or the double standards or the impotent hatred of anything Clinton."

Of course, the Arkansas Times is a paragon of fair and even-handed editorializing...

"Of course, the Arkansas Times is a paragon of fair and even-handed editorializing..."

Why, of course it is...plus the Times readily admits its biases...unlike those 'news' outlets that like to pretend they're 'fair/balanced' while shoveling more partisan shit than other media outlets.

it's not just the editorial pages. The article that appeared yesterday on Allin's death said that he and Allbright had "retired."

ARK. BLOG: It was interesting, too, that Richard worked 12 years at the Democrat-Gazette and there wasn't a quote in the story from a Democrat-Gazette employee,

Our Town traded in for "Sweet Tea (sic)" ! Oh, the humanity!

Oh how I miss the old Gazette,,,,,I can just see my Grandad reading every word, every day.

I thought the same thing this morning while reading that damn rag...

Did you notice the cartoon, too? It looked like Charlie on the right...

Richard Allen was a true southern gentleman with "good raising," as we say in the South. He and the Arkansas Gazette are fond memories. There should be a law against using Arkansas Gazette and the so-called Democrat in the title of that paper. As for the editorial staff, when the letters to the editor are much better than the staff's ramblings, you know there is something really wrong.

I almost spit my food on the "Letters" page today when a writer accused the D-G editorial staff of being "liberal'.

I've already said my piece about the one and only Richard. I've nothing else to say about the D-G.

I've said this before, but it bears repeating. When I was in the Navy during Vietnam, my family mailed me the Sunday Arkansas Gazette, every week.

I may have been subject to the usual 'Ark-in-saw' jokes, but I had requests to share that weeks old Sunday paper throughout the ship.

You wouldn't get a request to share today's Sunday demozette from someone who needed to line a bird cage!

But that's life. Sometimes the best things are supplanted by substandard successors. Take Bush, for instance . . . Please!