By Dylan R.N. Crabb
The website Poynter, which specializes in journalism news and education, published a selection of excerpts of various editorials curated together from several newspapers across the country. The curation had a theme: opposition to President Trump.
Click the image below to be redirected to the curation.
David Beard, “America, help! The freedom of the nation depends on you, hundreds of news outlets write,” Poynter (2018).”
Newspapers should be oppositional to governments because opposition and dissent is fundamental to the concept of free speech, but opposition should not be the sole purpose of an organization. Standing opposed to something is easy, standing for something is usually more difficult.
Chicago Sun Times: “We are the enemy of societal failings.”
What does that mean? What societal failings? Can newspapers decide what makes a society fail?
I don’t think news organizations should not be proselytizing a particular ideology, they should simply be outlets for truth (facts only).
The “enemy of racism?”
There will always be racism and bigotry in any society, that is a part of human nature. To hate is a part of being human. To fight against racism is to fight against a part of humanity. Ideologues with a utopian vision of a so-called “perfect society” fight against their view of evil by fighting against the darker sides of human nature in an attempt to mold humans into a tool for their utopia. Instead of moralizing about human emotions, we need to accept the positive aspects of our humanity with the more negative aspects and live with a decent balance.
Crabb-Talk 
The very core of your writing while sounding reasonable initially, did not really sit perfectly with me personally after some time. Somewhere throughout the paragraphs you actually managed to make me a believer but only for a while. I however have a problem with your jumps in logic and you would do well to help fill in those breaks. If you actually can accomplish that, I could undoubtedly be impressed.
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