Rhetoric, not reason, in Metro Times News Hits

[Reality_Check]

Regrettable to see the usually admirable Curt Guyette & Crew dust off tired tropes from the '60s today in "coverage" [http://metrotimes.com/news/story.asp?id=14083] of a protest outside The National Summit of biz + gov't leaders downtown:

The scene symbolized the way insiders gather to make policy while the masses remain on the outside, left only to bear the consequences.

Huh? Those "insiders" are discussing job training and creation, expanding educational opportunities and incubating American technology -- welcome consequences for "the masses" to bear.

"We're all in this together" has been said more than once at the event, where I serve as a volunteer.

Admittedly, way back when I had more hair and less sense, I may have jabbed a fist [[vertically, not horizontally) and said "right on" to reflexive rhetoric like that in MT . . .

. . . but balanced reflection now shows shades of gray 'tween those black and white, all-right or all-wrong poles.