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The God That Sucked
30 November 2004Ukraine: The bright colors, the all-night parties in the streets... it's a revolution, baby! Which means you can forget tough questions. Since our Ukrainian is rusty, we're in no position to ask them ourselves. But all we need is English to understand that the American media sees the Ukrainian dispute as a one-sided issue, with the people in the street 100% in the right. Well, it does seem that their guy won the election, but that doesn't mean there isn't the other half of the country to consider. Which, we suppose, is what The NYT's C.J. Chivers is trying to do in this piece on Yanukovich-supporting miners. "Miners, you say? Why, they live under the ground! What do they know?" Not much, according to Chivers. Ukraine is "tugged between the past and the future, between its internal east-west divisions, between historic connections to Russia and aspirations to be European...." That's right -- miners are the "past." And those folks wearing bright ski parkas in Kiev? So very European, they must be the future. Shagadelic. The split continues along religious lines. Chivers characterizes the divide as between Russian Orthodox and an "enduring" (read: fuzzy and quaint) Catholicism. But as the bulk of the coverage makes clear, the protestors in Kiev have a different god on their side -- the very same deity adored by the editorial page of The NYT and nearly every right-thinking modern media elite pulling down a six-figure salary. Back in the '90s, Dinesh D'Souza called him the "god of the market." Tom Frank calls him "The God that Sucked." Here at The Revealer, we believe in freedom of religion, so we're not going to vote either way on the All-Mighty Market. But we do hate to see the press blindly practice the state religion without question.
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