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Former editor takes her activism from the paper to the ACLU

It’s obvious that today’s fishwraps have abandoned all pretense of objectivity in order to advance agendas.  Don’t believe me?  Take it from the proverbial horse’s mouth:

Terri Burke, former editor of the Abilene Reporter-News, has been named executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Texas.

Burke, 56, will begin work at the ACLU of Texas on Tuesday. Her duties will include lobbying, fundraising, administering the organization and communicating with the public.

Burke said her new job seems like a continuation of her work in the newspaper business.

“I wanted to be a journalist because I thought journalism was a way to further the democratic process,” Burke said. “At its heart, journalism is about the First Amendment. All my life, I’ve been interested in those kinds of issues.” 

Let’s get one thing perfectly clear: the role of journalism is not to “further the democratic process”, but to pursue newsworthy stories and report them objectively and without prejudice, letting facts speak for themselves.  This chick clearly implies that she saw her role as a journo to be a political one.

Quips Bryan:

If there’s irony to be found here, it’s in the fact that the ACLU often uses the courts not to further the democratic process, but to destroy it. 

Nope…no liberal media bias!

January 15, 2008 - Posted by crushliberalism | ACLU, media bias