FLASH--NYT writes fair and balanced article about conservative students

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<p>Gotta give credit where it’s due. No snideness, and on the front page, too.</p>

<p><a href=“http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/14/politics/14heritage.html[/url]”>http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/14/politics/14heritage.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>Great read - thank you, Driver.</p>

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<p>Yes, happy to see that…for once.</p>

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<p>It really is delightful to see an article like this without the snide attitude that usually pervades these sorts of pieces.<br>
But I’d still only give it a B:

This paragraph puts the writer, who no doubt sees himself as a “moderate,” squarely left of center. The Brookings Institution is a “centrist” group? Strobe Talbot is the current president–remember him? If the PPI is “centrist” liberal, and the CBPP is only an “anti-poverty” group, then I’ve been completely fooled. Why isn’t Heritage called the promoter of a “centrist” version of conservativism? And where is the mention of the Cato Institute intern program? (those pesky libertarians… maybe if we ignore them they’ll just go away, hmm?) :D</p>

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<p>Wyogal, great points, all. I was too aflutter about the lack of snideness to even catch that.</p>

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<p>I did catch the lack of mention of Cato and just wondered if they lacked such a programme.</p>

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<p>Has anyone ever heard the NYT describe anything or anyone as Far Left? Heck the Workers World Party that splintered from the Socialist Workers Party because the SWP was too soft on the Hungarian Uprising gets described in the pages of the New York Times as an organiztion that “represented what appears to be a large segment of the American public . . . [and was] impressive for the obvious mainstream roots” You can tell how much time the editors spend west of the Hudson. If the journey out at all it is probably to Swarthmore.</p>

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<p>LOL patuxent :D</p>