I’m always amused by the people on the far right who accuse The Columbian of presenting the news with a liberal bias. Less often, someone to the extreme left will point a finger at the paper’s conservative slant. In my experience as a radio talk show host, and working around radio newsrooms, I find this to be an unalterable fact of life. If you don’t parrot a zealot’s specific points of view exactly, you are automatically labeled a liberal (conservative?). This verbatim repeating of the party line is why Fox News is so popular with the right. Unlike Fox, The Columbian appears to me to be fair and balanced.
If you’re ticking off elements on both fringes of the political spectrum you’re doing your job. Keep up the good work.
Michael Nettleton
Vancouver
