I will be doing my internship somewhere in D.C. as part of the Institute on Political Journalism. I called the Institute for Humane Studies and told them thanks, but no thanks, for the offer at the Shelby Star. After all, I think that IHS’ doing a journalism program is great. Journalism needs an infusion of people who appreciate the value of liberty.

That doesn’t liberate them of their responsibility, of course, to be as accurate and objective as possible in their news reporting, but just having a few more folks in the profession who even understand the ideas of free minds and free markets is a big plus.

Too often those ideas are shunted or treated with disdain. All we’re asking for is a place in the discussion and to be included in the story of the day. If you really want to ensure that a viewpoint goes nowhere, you don’t ridicule or distort it — you just ignore it. And that’s what journalists have done for a long time when it comes to libertarian and classical liberal ideas.