Our media had recently spent almost a year selling Thee Barack Obama as a historic election and that we should vote for him because it is historic and isn't this a historic time in history.
But now that we have a homegrown son of Wisconsin rising to the College of Cardinals and this is somehow controversial and *not* historic.
I would expect this from Lee Enteprises which runs:
| Madison | Wisconsin State Journal |
| Beaver Dam | Daily Citizen |
| Baraboo | Baraboo News Republic |
| Portage | Portage Daily Register |
| Chippewa Falls | The Chippewa Herald |
| Racine | The Journal Times |
| La Crosse, WI | La Crosse Tribune |
| Winona, MN | Winona Daily News |
This is a big corporate conglomerate, and has forsaken any sense of journalistic integrity in the name of profitability. The uppers at Lee Enterprises now serve their own interests and agendas instead of the people's.
The only Wisconsin paper I read every day is the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and although they many times suck at religion reporting(as they did with the Burke story), at least they seem genuinely concerned about the news happening today. They've had some very good in depth pieces.
A journalist certainly can be critical of the Church and her leaders if it's done ..... well when it's not politically motivated, when it's not manipulative, or when it's not completely ignorant.
Several other papers in Wisconsin (Stevens Point, Green Bay, Oshkosh) actually ran the piece from the Wausau Herald I posted earlier. Go figure, talk about the man growing up in Wisconsin, what a strange concept, who woulda ever thunk it?!?
Burke didn't get appointed to an abuse commission or spoke out about such and such a political thing that liberals don't like to hear, he was appointed to the College of Cardinals. You may not like him, but it seems like a strange time to be critical since he didn't DO anything. If he went golfing in Wisconsin they would write a piece about how controversial it was and how he probably cheated on his score. Is there anything this man can do right?
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