Keith,
I read the Post-Gazette almost every day. I read the editorials and the OpEds, including the endorsement of Trump for re-election. I find a lot of your (K.Burris') OpEds to contain false equivalencies. Shribman's OpEds are always informative and accurate whether I agree with him or not. I find Tony Norman and Gene Collier to be accurate and, mostly, in agreement with. There are many more, of course.
The paper runs opinions by a number of people that I disagree with like Jonah Goldberg or Bret Stevens, neither of whom are trying to start a civil war or end democracy. Ruth Anne Daily is reliably Republican and conservative. I almost never agree with her opinions. Your choice. That is part of the mix.
The Gazette did, finally, stop running Tucker Carlson's OpEds that are meant only to inflame and are riddled with lies, misinformation, and false equivalencies. It was the right thing to do.
But here we are, thirty-three days after the election, burned out by the pandemic, without jobs, our economy teetering on the brink. A multitude of staunch Republican civil servants involved with the election have declared Joe Biden the winner in their states, while President Trump continues to incite violence among his base by claiming voter fraud, that, provably, does not exist (Both Krebs and Barr are staunchly Republican as well). All of those Republican election civil servants have received multiple death threats. Why? Because of the sore loser in the White House, who, I might add, doesn't care if it all goes up in flames as long as he gets his way. And now, the Post-Gazette, in its infinite wisdom, decides to fan the flames rather than call for peace. When is the Post-Gazette going to stand up and declare this election over in a front page headline? After the shooting starts? After some election civil servant has been shot to death? When we are hip deep in blood?
Unlike the politicians who refuse to acknowledge Trump's loss for fear of losing their jobs, the Post-Gazette will lose nothing and, in fact, improve their standing as a fair and honest newspaper in the middle of one of the most Democratic (as opposed to Republican) regions in the state instead of another right wing screed like the Pittsburgh Tribune.
Fanning the flames has to stop before it is too late, before Putin gets his way and watches with glee as the U.S. burns to the ground!!
Freedom of speech, like all our other Constitutionally guaranteed rights, comes with responsibility. Something that John Robinson Block, obviously, is unwilling to accept. Without accepting that responsibility, he forfeits his right to call himself a journalist and to to call the Post-Gazette a newspaper.
It is time for the adults to stand up.”