Monday, September 20, 2010

Mormon-owned paper stands with illegal immigrants

This newspaper is calling for a softer attitude toward illegal immigrants. Many of its readers are upset with them. - - Donna Poisl

By JEREMY W. PETERS, The New York Times

SALT LAKE CITY — Joseph Cannon is nobody's liberal. His résumé reads as if it belongs to a Republican National Convention delegate, which, incidentally, he was in 2004.

He was an official for the Environmental Protection Agency under President Reagan and chairman of the Utah Republican Party. As editor of The Deseret News, he published editorials condemning deficit spending, same-sex marriage and lenient alcohol laws.

So it was something of a head-scratcher, Cannon said, when his voice mail and e-mail started filling up with messages from people calling him a "liberal freak" for the sympathetic way his paper often writes about illegal immigrants.
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