Pubdate: Sun, 17 Sep 2006
Source: News & Observer (Raleigh, NC)
Copyright: 2006 The News and Observer Publishing Company
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Author: Barry Brown

NEGATIVE-LEANING

Regarding Public Editor Ted Vaden's Sept. 10 column "A conservative 
Locke on the paper?" no worries about The N&O seemingly leaning to 
the right. There are examples in every issue.

Case in point: The Sept. 14 article "Control of Afghanistan slips." 
Of all the material available on the wire, the N&O decides to print a 
Cox News Service article citing [in part] experts from a European 
(French) think tank opining that the United States has lost control 
in Afghanistan.

Make no mistake, Afghanistan is not stable and is still a dangerous 
place, but it's no more difficult to Google "Good News from 
Afghanistan" and get credible (at least as credible as the Senlis 
Council) information on progress being made by and for the people of 
that beleaguered land than it is to pull a negative expert warning of 
impending collapse.

So far, Raleigh is still not in France. Maybe a little too close to 
Chapel Hill, but that's another discussion.

Barry Brown

Raleigh
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