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Michael Miner’s essay “Tribune, Explain Yourself” (12 November) rests on a huge assumption that most perceptive readers do not see in the Tribune editorials in recent years–that at its core there is some sort of intellectual honesty on the Tribune editorial board. For the last four years it is most apparent that the editorial board is making decisions that are not correlated with Republican values and beliefs, but are correlated with merely supporting Republicans because of who they are. Thus it does not matter how much malfeasance the Bush administration has demonstrated in the last four years, the Chicago Tribune will find a way to whitewash every example.
- Bush did ignore all warnings of the growing terrorist threat (from Clarke and others) before 9/11 (which the editorial board chose to whitewash).
Elmhurst
