Media Matters

* I’ve often said “Doonesbury” should be on the editorial page–not sharing comics space with “Dennis the Menace” and “Hagar the Horrible.” Most recent case in point: the absolute, spot-on skewering of evangelicals who have, unconscionably and hypocritically, supported Donald Trump. You go, Gary.

* Wouldn’t it be rhetorically easier to take the fair and societally-beneficial side of “felon voting rights” if, every time the issue were debated or chronicled or headlined in the media, the reference was to “former felon” or “ex-felon” voting rights? Psychologically, it may help if we underscored that we are considering the status of those, violent-crime category excluded, removed from felonious ways and deserving of a return to full-citizen status. And, as noted previously in this column, this would be a step in the direction of enlightened self-interest, because disenfranchised former felons have disturbingly high recidivism rates.

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