In the 1990s, one Lithuanian daily, Respublika, helped to turn the tide against crime syndicates that owned the streets and despoiled the country. Some of its reporters were killed in the line of duty. The paper had a different, often dissenting, perspective. Under the same publisher since its inception, it's still a dissenting voice, but now it's spewing muck, not raking it. It has turned into a fount of bigotry. Here is an excerpt from publisher Vitas Tomkus's gonna-get-medieval-on-your-ass Easter greeting to his readers (any errors in translation are mine): I know that auth...
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