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ED|TOW$10Tf:
When the news is like "
into 'the abyss'.
Some weeks back I received a series "attachment parenting," and the news
of increasingly irate phone calls from weekly illustrating the point with a way
a reader who didn't like a column the too good-looking mother staring down
Spirit ran on our opinion page. The call- the reader with a hand on her hip, her
er also disliked the Spirit's publishing 3-year-old son clamped to a breast.
what he called "controversial" stories, How the media presents its informa-
disliked the Spirit's publishing feature tion is always a moving target and pro-
pieces, disliked the Spirit'suse of pho- voking, challenging the reader, even, is
tographs. After a while it started to feel a dicey affair -- risks a'plenty in this
a little like "Groundhog Day." age when many news consumers prefer
I recalled my caller's complaints this the echo chambers of the Left or Right.
week after reading about the fallout Some will say they only want the news
from the decision by Rolling Stone mag- to educate and inform them then happily
azine to run a cover that depicted Boston ingest anything Ed Schultz or Scan Han-
bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev done up like nity have to say, as if Hannity or Schultz
some smoldering rock hero. Because are not peddling a point of view.
the cover appears to glorify Tsarnaev, But cold feet and a free and viable
a number of newsstands have said they press don't mix.
won't carry the issue. Critics say Roll- The media is not doing its job if it is
ing Stone should concentrate on report- not forcing us to evaluate and re-evalu-
ing on what it's good at -- music, ate our sacredest of cows. What repels
Readers will remember a similar erup- us also has the power to compel us, to
tion more than a year ago as a result give clear expression to half-formed no-
of Time magazine's cover story about tions, or sometimes even to bounce us
into a great paradigm shift. You never
know.
In an opinion piece on FoxNews.com
about the cover and the subsequent re-
lease of photographs by Boston Police
Sgt. Scan Murphy, Dr. Keith Ablow
comes to completely the wrong conclu-
sion about the Rolling Stone cover, de-
spite brilliantly citing Friedrich Nietz-
sche, who wrote: "He who fights with
monsters should look to it that he him:
self does not become a monster. And
when you gaze long into an abyss the
abyss also gazes into you."
Readers of the news are sometimes
forced to gaze into the abyss, to confront
things we don't understand and to try to
make sense of them. And the media, if
it's doing its job, is here to throw some
light into the pit, to find silhouetted with-
in some outline of understanding.
Otherwise you're just here for a daily
update about Uncle Walt and Skeezix.
-- Robert Snyder
A SECON LOOK
ROBERTSNYDER
Remembering Marcus
Charles Town resident Glenn Ramsburg (left) presents
Judy Marcus with a bouquet of flowers during a park bench
dedication ceremony in memory of her husband and Iongtime
Jefferson Memorial Park board member Terry Marcus at the park
in Charles Town last week. Marcus died in December 2010.
INDEX
Around the State ....... A5
Editorial ..................... A6
Opinion ..................... A7
Obituaries .................. A9
Business .................. A10
CORRECTION
An article that ran in the July
17 Spirit of Jefferson contained
an error. The Jefferson County
Farmland Protection Board has
formally closed on 38 agricul-
tural properties in the farmland
protection program.
Farm ......................... All
Sports ......................... B1
Racing ........................ B4
Classifieds .................. B5
Legals ................... B5-B8
Life ............................. B10
COM|NG UP
• Officials from
the Department of
Transportation's State Rail
Authority will be in Charles
Town this weekend for one
in a series of statewide public
information meetings on the
future of rail travel.
Saturday's meeting hap-
pens from 5:30 to 7 p.m. at
Charles Town Library at 200
E. Washington St. A formal
presentation is scheduled for
6 p.m.
Other public hearings will
be held'in Beckley, Weirton,
Morgantown and Moorefield.
Residents also can weigh in
by mailing comments be-
fore Aug. 23 to Cindy But-
ler, West Virginia State Rail
Authority, 120 Water Plan
Drive, Moorefield 26836.
• An evening of cocktails,
dining, live music and danc-
ing Sept• 14 will benefit the
Friends of Happy Retreat.
Only 125 tickets will be sold
for the Harvest Ball, a fund-
raiser for the continuing ef-
fort to buy Happy Retreat, the
home built in 1780 for Charles
Washington, Charles Town's
founder and the youngest
brother of the nation's fLrst
president.
The event, happening from
6 p.m. to 11 p.m., will include
a buffet dinner and Big Band
music from the Martinsburg
Jazz Orchestra. Tickets cost
$100 per person or $1,000 for
a table for eight.
For details, go online to
happyretreat.org. To reserve
a seat, call 304-724-7956 be-
fore Sept. 6.
July 24 in history
Confederate Lt. Gen. Jub-
al Early on July 24, 1864,
emerges victorious from the
Second Battle of Kernstown
just outside Winchester, Va.
After Early drives the
Union troops from the
Shenandoah Valley back
across the Potomac into
Maryland, he launches an at-
tack on the B&O, the South's
last major raid into Union
territory. He also orders his
cavalry to set ablaze the city
of Chambersburg, Pa. - pay-
back for a Union leader's de-
cision earlier in the month to
burn several wealthy South-
ern sympathizers' homes in
Jefferson County.
Beckley-bom actor Chris
Sarandon turns 71 today. Af-
ter he earned a degree from
West Virginia University, he
won acclaim in "Dog Day Af-
ternoon" and "The Princess
Bride."
Others with birthdays to-
day: South American liberator
Simon Bolivar (below), avia-
tion pioneer
Amelia Ear-
hart, sing-
er Jennifer
Lopez, au~
thor Zelda
Fitzgerald,
basketball's
Karl Ma-
lone, base-
bali's Barry Bonds, and ac-
tors Ruth Buzzi ("Laugh-In"),
Robert Hays ("Airplane!"),
Michael Richards ("Sein-
feld"), Lynda Carter ("Won-
der Woman"), Kristin Che-
noweth ("The West Wing"),
Elisabeth Moss ("Mad Men")
and Anna Paquin ("The Pia-
no," "True Blood").
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