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Glendening On His Knees
Before Baltimore Sun

Maryland Governor Again Puts Politics Above Principles

In another amazing misjudgment of public opinion, Maryland Governor Parris Glendening grovelled at the feet of the tabloid Baltimore Sun yesterday, canceling a planned joint appearance with President Clinton, one of his strongest supporters.

The Sun, meanwhile, continued its policy of printing editorials labeled as news articles on its front page, as it struggles to maintain even a shred of credibility with the Maryland public.

The Sun has demanded the public humiliation of the President and the nation as its price for ceasing its nonstop reporting on Monica Lewinsky. Polls continue to show that the vast majority of Americans are disgusted with the media and that they want the President to continue in office. In fact, the media is the only group held in lower esteem than both politicians and lawyers.

The media has decreed that the President must go, and is now engaged in a fight to the finish with the citizens of the United States.

"The tabloid Sun is like a spoiled, whining brat given a candy bar by a frustrated parent to make him shut up," said one veteran observer of the Maryland political scene. "Each time the parent gives in, the whining behavior of the brat is reinforced. Glendening's decision to switch political sides at the demand of The Sun means we can expect the standards of this once proud newspaper to decline even further, if that is possible."

The Sun's "reporting" is not based on any political ideology. Indeed, its recent attacks on Ellen Sauerbrey's environmental record disgusted readers on both ends of the political spectrum. The newspaper feels that its reporters are the cultural elite and that the public must get in line behind it.

Unfortunately for The Sun, in November each one of its reporters gets the same single vote as each individual citizen.

For the first time in history, freedom of the press is no longer limited to those rich enough to afford a press. The Baltimore Sun, ABC News, and the rest of the tabloid media are going down in flames, and there is little they can do about it except whine louder and louder. Fortunately, we no longer have to listen.