An Open Letter To The Editors Of The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

[hue]

http://bloggingblue.com/2013/12/an-open-letter-to-the-editors-of-the-milwaukee-journal-sentinel/

Dear Sirs and Madams,

For those of you who don’t know me, I am a staff writer for the local liberal blog site, Blogging Blue. I am a regular reader of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and its companion website JSOnline. However, I generally don’t read other blog sites on a regular basis because I don’t want to be influenced by their content and I avoid conservative sites because, quite frankly, I don’t need the stress (and I don’t need to give them the page views).

However I do read Mr. Christian Schneider’s opinion pieces on a regular basis since you regularly give him considerable column inches in the editorial and Crossroads sections of your paper. I am sure you won’t find it surprising that I seldom agree with his position on the topic under discussion. But that has nothing to do with what I am about to say: Mr. Schneider has outlived his usefulness to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and the community at large.

I am not a journalist, just a blogger. But my readers know that I don’t disrespect public figures or candidates for office or elected officials in my blogs. I use their formal names, their titles and avoid derogatory nicknames in my writing, whether I agree with them or not. In order to have civil public discourse, I believe that is necessary and should be expected of anyone given a public forum.

Mr. Schneider doesn’t hold himself to that same standard and if he was writing for his own blog, I wouldn’t voice my concern. But you have granted him your public forum and the respect your paper and predecessor institutions have garnered over the years. Yet in his column today, 2013: America takes a selfie, you allowed Mr. Schneider to publically disrespect the president, not once, but twice!

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This is just one example of why I have NO respect for the Milwaukee Urinal!!
It doesn't live up to rudimentary standards of journalism.

[dembotoz]

1. yep

[Iwillnevergiveup]

2. Great letter

And thank you for it on behalf of my wonderful relatives in Wisconsin!

[AAO]

3. Every one of the responses agreed with the letter!

[Jackpine Radical]

4. Sad--The scentinel-Urinal used to be one of the top 10 papers in the country.