Dear La Voz,

Russell Green’s evaluation of the potential impacts of two conservative billionaires potentially buying major newspapers like the L.A. Times was a typical extremist liberal diatribe.

Rather than recognizing that serious issues such as the sustainability of Medicare or Social Security might have legitimately differing points of view as to how to solve longer term problems, he suggests that since they are conservative, their plans would leave “millions of elderly literally out in the cold.”

Aside from being ridiculous hyperbole, no evidence was provided to support such an ad hominem attack.

Rather than recognize that honest evaluations of the current state of our public education system show us being woefully inadequate in preparing students to think critically, Mr. Green suggests that any change which might alter the payment mechanism for education will necessarily lead to reduced informed decision making.

One could argue, using the given editorial, that the level of informed decision making by students can hardly go lower.

Laughably, Mr. Green uses the Washington Post as his standard for  unbiased journalism, quoting them as saying that the Koch brothers buying a major newspaper would necessarily reduce the journalistic integrity of the papers.

Again, no evidence is given to support such a slander.

While complete statistics are hard to gather, one can look anecdotally at two prime cable news examples at each end of the political spectrum, MSNBC and Fox News.

In the last three years, MSNBC has been caught over a dozen times deliberately misrepresenting sources or data as part of their news stories. Fox News has had no such incidents.

Mr. Green seems to have what world-renowned African American political economist Thomas Sowell calls “The Vision of the Anointed.”

People on the left wing of the political spectrum are so absolutely convinced of their own moral superiority, that they are willing to reject any facts, logic, or reason that does not comport with their world view.

While the editorial implored its readers to use independent news sources to “protect ourselves from being duped by ultra-conservative talking points,” there is no prescription for how students can protect themselves from “ultra-liberal talking points,” either in the classroom or in the media.

Sadly, Mr. Green has succumbed to his indoctrination.

-Scott Peterson, math instructor