Samuel Finley Breese Morse, inventor, history and portrait painter, is best known for inventing the telegraph and Morse code. His "What hath God wrought" -- the first telegraph message, sent from Washington, DC to Baltimore, MD in 1844 -- vies with many a quote from the movie "Airplane" in its applicability to a variety of everyday situations.
The Wall Street Journal's editorial page used to be the cream in our coffee. We'd step out onto the front porch before breakfast and find it, rolled up and bagged in plastic, somewhere between the sidewalk and the second stoop. (Once or twice we never found it at all until the spring thaw, when it showed up underneath the bottom flight of stairs.) It focused and reinforced our political views and informed us of what was going on out there in the world beyond the stoop.
Now we subscribe to the online version, which has some of the best online crossword puzzles in the universe. Shortly after 9/11, Journal op eds went free with Opinion Journal, so it's easier than ever to get our breakfast fix. But post 9/11 something happened. Blogs started competing with the WSJ's opinion pages in our breakfast menu. Then, in December of last year, we started our own blog. Today it struck home. We "opened" the online Journal only to find a resounding echo --concise, terse, pithy and beautifullly written, of course -- of what we had ourselves blogged here yesterday re that Marine the MSM are trying to smear even as they avoid showing images of the enemy's savagery.
As Samuel F.B. Morse tapped in the first telegraph message 160 years ago, What hath God wrought?
It seems to me that much of the MSM is controlled by those who wish to reign in the USA. Their view and their methods of attaining their goals tends to be fascist. We must hope that our right to object to their view allows us to retain what has been the world's premiere free society. Thank G-d for the Fox the WSJ and other objective media and for the internet.
Posted by: acjgoomp | November 18, 2004 at 12:08 PM
Yes, but will they publish photos of cats?
Posted by: mabs | November 19, 2004 at 07:15 AM