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...issue of Newsweek contained a particularly transparent example of this sort of journalism, if it can be called that. In the ominously titled "Homophobia: What Does It Mean to Be Anti-Gay?" writer John Leland paints a picture of the mid-sized town of Lewiston, Maine that positively oozes with condescension and posturing...
...article's condescending portraits of the town's residents--that is, of those on the wrong side of the issue--can be downright insulting. Speaking of one leading opponent of Lewiston's gay-rights ordinance, the reporter believes he speaks for all his readers: "You want Paul Madore to play the villain, to become the Jason Robards character made flesh." Does this sound like respect for the "gray areas" of morality...
...points to Paul Madore's candidacy for the state senate as evidence that "progress can move backward as well as forward," whatever that means. His final sentences ring with self-affirmation, declaring that the forces of right will finally triumph over small-town ignorance and evil: "In towns like Lewiston, history sometimes advances at its own uneven speed. But it advances nonetheless." This is not reporting. It is an exercise in contempt...
Apart from the anti-incumbent trend, the results last week showed the contrasts and contradictions usual for a clutch of local contests. One exception: gay rights lost heavily in all three places they were put to a vote -- Cincinnati; Lewiston, Maine; and Portsmouth, New Hampshire. These are not exactly trend-setting cosmopolises, but the defeats extend an unbroken string of losses over several years that has gay activists worried. In most other areas, however, the results showed patterns were meant to be broken...
...forthcoming plan from the National Marine Fisheries Service is likely to be much stricter in requiring increased water flows at the dams. Farmers, manufacturers and utilities are worrying about the consequences. In Lewiston, a port 748 km (465 miles) inland on the Snake River in Idaho, port director Ron McMurray says barge traffic may be halted several months a year, forcing farmers to transport cargo by rail or truck. Ron Reimann, who farms 1,295 hectares (3,200 acres) in Pasco, Wash., estimates that it will cost him $1.3 % million if he has to move his irrigation pumps to accommodate...