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I'm hardly one of President Barack Obama's most avid supporters. But for the sake of debate it would be nice if the media stopped repeating and started reporting.

"I was glad to see YPNation Contributor Nikki Gloudeman share her thoughts on the "climategate" saga. It's hard to recall an event that has caused such excitement in conservative print media, and on talk radio and Fox News. And with some justification."

I am not a defender of Fox News. Nor am I a defender of any other news outlet. No matter your news source, it seems you will find some bad or slanted reporting mixed in with good or objective analysis.

The news that the lauded Editor & Publisher (E&P) has been sold and will survive to fight another day was officially announced last week. E&P, which has undergone many incarnations, mergers and forms since its founding in 1884, was in danger of dying. Fortunately, the E&P magazine and Web site were bought by an Irvine, California-based company called Duncan McIntosh Co. Inc. Well, maybe it was fortunate-it's hard to say so early on.

Are death threats and regularly broadcasted rage throwbacks to similar times in American history, or is it a new phenomenon that a quarter of the Republican party thinks our president is, without exaggeration, the Antichrist? I recently took a turn through Gallup's Presidential Approval Center to get some answers about how today's political and cultural climate truly differs from the past.