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Day INSIDE ... The meaning of Memorial Day By Chris Graham/AFP The meaning of Memorial Day is not lost on Vietnam War veteran David Snyder. The Waynesboro vet served in 'Nam with a squad of 12 people, "and everyone in the squad either lost their lives or was wounded. Only three of us made it out of the rice paddie," Snyder told The Augusta Free Press. "Memorial Day is very important to me because of the people who served with me who lost their lives ..." IN FOCUS: Kaine, Kilgore discuss health-care fixes By Chris Graham/AFP Two of the contenders for the top job in Virginia government are using the bully pulpit that a gubernatorial candidacy provides to focus public attention on health care. The approaches of Democrat Tim Kaine and Republican Jerry Kilgore to the problem are as different as the candidates themselves. "Because of dramatically rising costs, many Virginia families are without or in danger of losing their health-care insurance ..." NOTES FROM THE PRESS: Election-season news and notes By Chris Graham/AFP The Republican National Committee announced last week that it will back former attorney general Jerry Kilgore's bid for governor. Kilgore is running for the party's nomination in a June 14 GOP primary. "Jerry Kilgore is a proven leader with a clear and consistent record of serving the people of Virginia well," RNC chairman Ken Mehlman said. EYE ON THE VALLEY: Elder makes it official in the 20th By Chris Graham/AFP Bruce Elder has made it through life just fine without the pressures of party politics to give him the expected headaches that come when one enters that territory. So the question begs ... what would make the Staunton businessman want to give up the place in life that he has created for himself in order to run for public office? OBITUARIES: May 30, 2005 Mary Agnes Trimble, 62 Dolly Ann Floyd Ward, 70 AROUND TOWN: Community-news notebook By Chris Graham/AFP WVPT announces Young Heroes Stuart Hall names new assistant headmaster Raising the flag VIEWS ON THE NEWS: Are we waiting for a tragedy to take place? Drive down U.S. 340, U.S. 250, U.S. 11 or any of a number of other highways and byways in Virginia on a Friday or Saturday, and you will see it for yourself. Fellow drivers looking for a good bargain risking their lives and yours for said good bargain, that is. The 2005 yard-sale season is well under way, and with it comes offerings thrown out on front lawns statewide and nationwide ... VIEW FROM CAPITOL HILL: Spyware By Bob Goodlatte The continued growth of technology has brought tremendous improvement to our lives from advances in medical research to the ability to communicate with loved ones located thousands of miles away. While the benefits of this technology continue to increase, so too does the vulnerability of those who use it. I was pleased that the House of Representatives this week passed the Internet Spyware ... GUEST VIEW: Journalism digs deeper into niche By Bruce Kesler Did I say niche? Sorry, I meant ditch. On almost any issue, on almost any measure, study after study shows major differences in political and social leanings between mainstream journalists and the public. Similarly, repeated surveys demonstrate a far higher skepticism among the public of journalistic product than journalists have of themselves.
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Disagrees with Our View "Our View" (Enemies of the state, May 24 AFP) states, "We have complained - often - about the sometimes-bitter divide that we've seen between the news media and the general population," - then immediately goes on to interject the usual obvious bias, "particular those members of the general population who seem to uncover bias behind every headline, whether it's actually there or not." Then, mollifyingly states, "But by and large, the observers just want to know what's going on - and the reporters and news organizations just want to tell them." (Well, isn't that special.) Then, patronizingly, "Now we have to say that we're beginning to think that more and more people are getting it." (Well, Thank you. thank you, thank you. Your All-Knowing.) Sadly, the opinions of the general population in the past, weren't likely to get reported by the national media. Thankfully, but to the dismay of the national media, the opinions of the general population now have begun to be heard via the bloggers, who somehow are not encumbered by the "many, many complicating factors - deadline pressures, market saturation, experience or inexperience, downright orneriness, etc", not to mention the complicating factor of entrenchment of the liberal media mindset. Times are changing! Bloggers are causing the liberal media to panic as their impetus is to immediately expose liberal media bias to the world. Many of the liberal media persuasion are beginning to assuage the intenseness of the blogger/liberal media ill will with such fatalistic rhetoric as, "The bottom line is that we all really are in this together." I'll have to say, I was surprised to read such diatribe here. Concerning media bias, "Our View" doesn't have a clue! Surely, the editor was on vacation. - Armond Simmons, Pell City, Ala.
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