The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 80, No. 126, Ed. 1 Monday, April 1, 2002 Page: 4 of 14
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4A The Baytown Sun
Opinion
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Wanda Gamer Cash, Editor and Publisher
David Bloom, Managing Editor
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Commentary
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McGowan reports, "an editorial car-
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About Us
Officials
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Sunday, April 1,2002
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Cheers
The Gulf Coast Regional Blood
Volunteers for Baytown’s Habitat
for Humanity made another fami-
donations. What could be more
important?
ognize the importance of blood
donation and have given blood to
The Blood Center. The ExxonMobil
in Baytown, downtown Houston
Fred Hartman, Publisher Emeritus
1950-1974
often she. went to conservative
women's organizations to comment
deliberate, bias in the media is
■William McGowan's "Coloring the
1 received the National Press
Foundation's award for "lifetime
distinguished contributions to jour-
Nat
Hentoff
Doris Thomas
Baytown
Goose Creek CISD
Goose Creek Administration Bldg.
1415 Market Street ,
P.O. Box 30
Baytown, Texas 77522
281-4204800
Superintendent
Barbara Sultis
281-424-9289 ------
District 4 - Don Murray
281-424-2300
District 5 - Ronnie Anderson
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District 6 - Coleman Godwin
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History reported late
March 24,2002, history is, was, has
been made! Yet, The Baytown Sun
chose March 26, 2002 to inform its
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to Cathy Dolan letter that she directed say that I am a pretty loyal subscriber,
to me. Let me first say, Ms.Dolan, that 1 even read the Sun when it was a day
my letter was not directed at you or late before they started getting them
the coaching staff or your students it on the stands early enough.
was directed to the Bay town Sun and
their lack of coverage on our home-
town girls.
300 words and guest columns of up to 500 » 77522.
Or, fax them to: (281) 427-1880. Or, email
us at sunnews@baytownsun.com.
Board at Trusteed ~
District 1 - PhelitriaBarnes
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District 2 - Rosa Rodriguez
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District 3 - Weston Cotten
281426-5384
District 4 - James Lewis
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District 5 - Clarence Albus
281421-5896
* District 6 - Jepp Busch
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District 7 - Roy Barefield
281422-7329
City of Baytown
City Hall
2401 Market Street
Baytown, Texas 77520
281422-8281
City Manager —<—L__—__
Monte Mercer
Mayor
Pete Alfaro '
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City Council
District 1 - Mercedes Renteria III
281420-9796
District 2 - Scott Sheley
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District 3 - Calvin Mundinger
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writer’s signature. An address and phone num-
ber not fix publication should be included. We
ask that submissions be limited to one per
month. All letters and guest columns subject
to editing.
The Sun reserves the right to refuse to pub
lish any submission.
Letters endorsing or opposing political can-
didates or issues will not be published within
two days of an election, except in direct rebut-
tal to a letter previously published in The
Baytown Sun. Please send signed letters to:
Wanda Gamer Cash or David Bloom, The
„• The Baytown Sun welcomes letters of up to Baytown Sun, P.O. Box 90, Baytown, TX
words on any item of public interest. Guest
columns should include a photograph of the
'Writer. We publish only original material
Our editorial board
The Baytown Sun’s editorial board meets
weekly at 2 p.m. Wednesday. Individuals are
encouraged to visit the editorial board to dis-
cuss issues affecting the community. To
make an appointment contact Managing
Editor David Bloom, (281) 422-8302.
“Members of the editorial board include:
Wanda Gamer Cash, editor and publisher;
Dadd Bloom, managing editor; Meredith
Darnell, news editor; Eric Bauer, marketing
director; and Dee Anne Navarre, business
manager.
Let us hear from you
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Cheers and jeers
. Cheers and Jeers is a collection
of quick hits of praise and com-
ments on local, state and national
issues compiled by The Sun Editor-
ial board.
The Senate’s greater emphasis
on conservation is important
because it accomplishes an envi-
ronmental good and because it
spreads the federal booty around
from the larger beneficiaries to
the smaller ones or to those who
have received no subsidies at all
but could use them to stay in
business.
The United States can’t con-
tinuelo preach free enterprise
while it distorts agricultural
markets. Eventually, it must get
its reckless and counterproduc-
tive system of subsidies under
control. Sadly, it won’t accom-
plish that this year.
— The Dallas Morning News
Reporter writes b
Bernard Goldberg, for 28 years a ~~
persistently fair, probing reporter
for CBS News in the tradition set \ J
there by Edward R. Murrow, has ‘ ■
written a current best-selling book,
"Bias: A CBS Insider Exposes How
the Media Distort the News,"
(Regnery Pub, 20B1).
His detailing of liberal bias in the
media has been fiercely attacked by
such mandarins of journalism as
Tom Shales of the Washington Post, ■; An even more substantial illumi-
Michael Kinsley of Slate, and Tom • nation of instinctive, rather than
Goldstein, dean of Columbia
University's School of Journalism.
One of Goldstein's former col-
leagues at CBS News, Eric Enberg,
has charged that Goldberg has com-
mitted "an act of treason." In my
longtime experience as a reporter, I
have found that the two groups
most thin-skinned when criticized
are the police and journalists.
. Yet, Goldberg accurately points
out — among many examples —
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$550,000.
The lower Senate cap is
important because of the single
most perverse attribute of U.S.
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‘’-Texas, ,1 percent of farmers got
approximately one-fifth,of all of
the subsidies distributed in the
to open for top-selling duo Brooks &
Dunn.
Cagle, who is a resident of
Baytown, is a local success story.
Keep listening.
The Baytown Sun is encouraging
employees and Shrine Club mem- readers to submit their own cheers
bers have helped save lives by dieir andjeers. Cheers and jeers is an edi-
torial that is published every
Monday. Send submissions to: The -
Baytown Sun.-PO. Box 90, Baytown,
Texas 77522. They may also be e-
ly’s dream come true as they wel- mailed to: meredith.damell@bay-
comed two families to their new townsun.com.
Grossly excessive form bills
hoosing between the
■ grossly excessive farm
bills passed by the
Senate and the House is like
choosing between death by vivi- farm subsidies: Most of the sub-
-----□ «... •_:„x:—r sidies go to people who need
them least. Front 1996 to 2000,
also quotes the confes- bian. Yet, she campaigned against
, the ^£8^1 gay iesbian drive
to get Dr. Laura Schlessinger off
A true believer in free speech, she
describes how rampant political
correctness is limiting the diversity
of views on college campuses,
Hollywood, and television.
Everyone's right to freedom of
conscience is not self-executing. We
have to be careful to give everyone
section and by injection of
lethal chemicals. Both produce
the same sad, untimely outcome, 10 percent of farmers got two-
but one is less painful than the thirds of the subsidies, accord-
other. ing to the Environmental
Both bills would spend $170 Working Group, which got all of
billion over 10 years for the its data from the U.S.
ostensible purpose of supporting Agriculture Department. In
U.S. agriculture. Both would .
provide $73.5 billion in new
spending, continuing the sharp
rise in farm payments of recent state,
years. Both would continue to
shackle U.S. farmers to a com-
mand-and-control system of
agriculture more reminiscent of
the Soviet Union than the land
of Milton Friedman.
Yet of the two, the Senate ver-
sion is preferable, and the lion’s
. share of its provisions should
emerge victorious from the con-
ference committee negotiations
. that began on Wednesday. The
Senate version is better princi-
pally because it would put sig-
nificantly more money into con-
servation programs and would
have, a lower cap on subsidies
payments $275,000 per farmer
per year vs. the House version’s
pro-gay rights, and describes him-
self "as an old-fashioned liberal."
He does not maintain that there is a
conspiracy among liberal journalist
to distort the news. Rather, many of
them - especially in the big dailies out considering what he was really
-♦"share the same values on ... say^'" ..
abortion, gun control, feminism,
gay rights, the environment, (and)
school prayer."
stream Ainericans think as they’-do.
After all, how many of their friends
are pro-life or believe that the Civil
Rights Act of 1964 outlawed all
racial preferences in education and
Letters ____________________________
Letter not intended for BH coaching staff
I am writing this letter in response everyday on my way to work, I would the way it shouldbe.
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homes during an open house
Saturday. This is the Baytown’s
22nd Habitat home.
Building a home is no easy task.
Habitat for Humanity volunteers
donate hours of time and lots of
manpower to make sure residents
Center honored corporations, orga- have a good .place to live,
nizations and individuals on
Thursday whose commitment and
achievement are hallmark to suc-
cess of the regional blood program.
The Life Giver 2001 award recip-
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New as for the spiteful remark as
you called it. I use stores,banks, doc-
tors, etc. in Houston, but I do not con- vi, ±
I think that Barbers Hill has a great sider myself to be part of that city, public.
• softball program which I wrote about Maybe we can just chalk that up to a \0 v,
J in a recent letter to the Sun. The pat- lack of options in a small town. And Nineteenth
tern that I referred to is not unfound- yes things have improved on our cov-
ed. And because I purchase a paper erage of the Baytown girls which is
Sterling graduate Chris Cagle has
a lot to sing about.
Cagle's debut album, “Play It
ient went to ExxonMobil. They Loud” was certified gold on March
have had 4,000-plus employees rec- 12. He was nominated for the top
new male vocalist by the Academy
of Country Music. His current sin-
gle, “I Breathe In” is No. 2 on the
and on 290 W, combined had a 95 Billboard charts and he was selected
percent participation rate.
The Baytown Shrine Club was
recognized as an organization that
made 1,682 donations to The Blood
Center.
Giving blood is more than a
worthwhile cause. ExxonMobil
»k about media liberal bias
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" nalism." When I came to
Washington, where the late Meg
Greenfield of the Washington Post
presented the award, I ran into a"
member of the jury that selected
me. "You almost didn't make it,"
she said. "There was quite a fight. It .
wasn't about the quality of your
work," she reassured me.
“ Although I am against capital
punishment, am pro-labor, and vote
as an independent, none of that
would have counted with some
members of the jury who were pro-
choice. Though I am non-religious,
News: How Crusading for Diversity I'm pro-life,, and that almost did me
has Corrupted American in.
Journalism," (Encounter Books, A book that merits more attention
2001). McGowan, widely published than the mainstream press has given
in major newspapers, is also an it also speaks to the instinctive
insider. His extensive research notes stereotyping by many Americans —
testify to the facts— not just « — -----—*—
assumptions— of his findings.
For example: Ward Connerly, a
California Board of Regents mem-
that when he asked a senior produc- ber, who has spearheaded attempts
er for "CBS Evening News" how in that state and in the nation -----v----------------
against racial preferences, is himself Thought Police: Inside the Left's
t black. As I can attest, he is a man of Assault on Free Speech and Free
on Congressional votes or Supreme principle and courage. Yet, Minds," (Prima Publishing, 2001).
Court decisions on women's issues, McGowan reports, "an editorial car- Bruce, former president of the
"She couldn't think of a single 4°on in the Oakland Tribune fea- Los Angeles chapter of the National
time." tures him with a KKK hood and Organization for Women, is pro-
Goldberg himself is pro-choice. roPe hanging trearby." abortion rights and an activist les-
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sion of a San Francisco Chronicle
reporter that "newsroom culture _ a
definitely sent a message that it was television,
okay to go after Connerly... with-
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saying."
If I were editor of a newspaper, I
would ask all reporters and editors
to read "Coloring the News," and to
They'beiieve that decent, main- ■, its relevance to their experi-
ences of newsroom cultures.
A personal story: some years ago, a hea ;ng.
Nat Hentoff is a nationally
renowned authority on the First
Amendment and the Bill of Rights.
it also speaks to the instinctive
not only journalists—whose cher-
ished belief in diversity does not
include diversity of ideas with
which they don't agree. The book,
by the emphatically independent
Tammy Bruce, is "The New
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