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May 01, 2005
No new news about newzzzzz......
I can't think of a more perfect example of why the mainstream media hates bloggers than this: Los Angeles Times editors have edited a Reuters story to remove critical facts supporting the U.S. position on an important international issue.Patterico goes on to prove quite conclusively that: Not only am I not surprised, I'm so callused to this sort of thing that I feel a bit guilty. My daily paper (the Philadelphia Inquirer) removes critical facts all the time. Sometimes I write about it, but when I do I'm always afraid of boring my readers. Who the hell wants "proof" that the Philadelphia Inquirer engages in selective reporting? For what it's worth, the Inquirer also ran a story (AP, not Reuters) with no mention of the satellite data in support the U.S. position. Here it is (for what it's worth): Italy, U.S. disagree on agent deathIs anyone awake? I know how utterly tedious this is, but the key paragraph is this one: The Americans maintain that soldiers fired warning shots in the air, then shot at the engine block because the car was speeding. The survivors insist that they saw the beam of a warning light at virtually the same time gunfire broke out. The surviving intelligence agent has testified that he was driving slowly.This is where the "evidence" is presented, and the exonerating satellite data should be there. It isn't. Nor does it appear in a longer version of reporter Nicole Winfield's story. At least the Inquirer didn't remove critical details from the Nicole Winfield story. However, the Reuters report (the one including the satellite information) was dated April 29, the day before. Surely AP reporters like Nicole Winfield read Reuters? Surely they pay attention to CBS reports (especially when they're picked up by Agence France-Presse)? Don't they? Yawn. UPDATE (05/03/05): I see that today's Philadelphia Inquirer is running Tracy Wilkinson's LA Times story -- about which Patterico asks the following questions: What’s the reason for the omission? Suspicion of CBS News? Appropriate journalistic skepticism? Partisan politics? Not enough room in the paper? Something else entirely?The same questions could be asked of the Inquirer, of course. And I'd additionally like to ask why they seem to be going out of their way to run discredited LA Times stories. Might the Inquirer might be reading blogs for pointers in their quest for misguidance? I don't know, but I think we'll see more outright contempt for blogs. Open defiance of blogs might confound bloggers, but it should not surprise them. (After all, the "anarchic consequences" identified by Glenn Reynolds cut both ways. Who ever said anarchy was fair?) MORE: John Cole has written a very thorough post on a much-neglected issue -- the likelihood that the Italians paid ransom money in one form or another to free Ms. Sgrena. Opines John: you simply can not give in to these thugs and murderers. They have to be destroyed, not appeased, paid, or otherwise mollified.I couldn't agree more with that. posted by Eric on 05.01.05 at 08:01 PM
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Hasn't anyone told you that trolling isn't the best way to build a blog? Eric Scheie · May 9, 2005 09:55 AM Oops. You used the "f" word again. Not once but THREE TIMES! And once again, the Moral Majority has made me whip out my electronic red pencil and use it on you. Sorry but I must do their bidding. :( Eric Scheie · May 9, 2005 10:55 AM |
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Every time I visit this f---ing blog, you manage to ruin my day, you capitulating little f---wadd.
What the hell difference does it make how fast that damn car was moving? The fact remains that US soldiers fired on an unarmed vehicle containing a journalist that the US goverment wanted dead? This is an atrocity. Since when is it OK to f---ing fire bullets at journalists, you Stalinist prick?