The Good with the Bad

Its letters like this one that give me hope that there really are thoughtful, intelligent people out there. Hopefully this trend will continue; with every bad, disrespectful and uninformed article about Romney posted on the web, a good one will match it.

Romney's Religion and the Media

There was a great piece in the LA Times recently about the media attacking Romney's Mormonism. The elections are far, far away, but this discussion will dominate as long as Romney is a candidate. I wonder if Romney will ever get to talk issues?

Mormons on PBS

A four-hour documentary on Mormons will air on PBS this spring. "Award-winning filmmaker Helen Whitney has one over-arching goal for her four-hour production "The Mormons," I hope that most of the stereotypes — ideally, all of them — will be blown away." It will air April 30 and May 1st. "The Mormons" is not a film about Utah. Whitney traveled across the country, from New York to California; she sent a film crew to Ghana. Mormons are everywhere, and I wanted to make that point." It sounds like it will be very good, and fair. I look forward to seeing this on TV. PBS has aired a lot of things about the church. Recently, there was a documentary about the Willie and Martin handcart companies. Over the Christmas holiday season, PBS aired a christmas concert that was taped at the confrence center several times--I actually got tired of seeing it it was on so much.

The First of Many

Another Step Closer

It's going to be for real this week: "Gov. Mitt Romney this week will submit the necessary paperwork to form a presidential exploratory committee, but not until funeral services for former President Gerald R. Ford have concluded, according to a top aide familiar with his plans. While the committee filing will be labeled "exploratory," it will declare Romney as an official presidential candidate and commit him to the same fundraising and reporting rules he will have to follow when, as is expected, he transitions to a formal presidential campaign committee."
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070102/ap_on_el_pr/romney2008