The New London Day apparently can’t afford to send it’s reporters into diners to seek out the whackos, like the New York Times, so it’s asking the whackos to come to it.
On the front page of today’s Region section there’s a little item asking whackjobs who’ve applied for pistol permits in 2020 to give the Day a call. Apparently, the Day wants to get on the same bus as the Times, seeking to understand the crazies.
Buried in all this, of course, is the unstated proposition that these people are oddities, who we must understand and to whom we must give ever so many benefits of the doubt. Normal people, you know, people who don’t stockpile weapons or go maskless during a pandemic, aren’t worth seeking out. Who cares what they think! That’s why the Times spilled endless ink on Trumpies in diners, but never, in eight years, bothered to seek out Obama voters.
This is nothing really new for the Day, which has been catering to the right for years now. Among other things they have inflicted local right wing radio host Lee Elci on us as a regular columnist, but they have, apparently, been totally unable to find a local left winger so they can be “fair and balanced”.
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