Christian Schneider

The simplex (in electronics, "one-way") reasoning of Milwaukee Journal Sentinel columnist Christian Schneder becomes more fundamentalist conservative by the week. Today, his column's entire premise is summed up in the column's ridiculous headline:

No it's not.

As journalists and students of political science and public administration are well aware, regulatory agencies -- such as those assigned to protect the environment or oversee financiers or watch drug companies -- are always at risk of being captured by the very special interests they are assigned to monitor. Similar risk now affects newspaper editorial boards that rely more and more upon a narrow, ideological point of view from some of the very organizations they are supposed to view with skepticism.