no kidding!
Posted on 02/13/2005 12:25:58 PM PST by quidnunc
Has anyone ever said something about you that wasn't true? Something that, if people believed it, would significantly damage your reputation? How would you feel if you saw that falsehood printed on the front page of the Los Angeles Times? Would it make things right if the paper later retracted the false statement — with a brief correction buried inside the paper?
For some, this is not a hypothetical question. Just ask L. Paul Bremer III, Antonin Scalia or the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth.
Last year, The Times suggested on Page 1 that Bremer was a coward: "L. Paul Bremer III, the civilian administrator for Iraq, left without even giving a final speech to the country — almost as if he were afraid to look in the eye the people he had ruled for more than a year."
False. Not only had Bremer given a farewell speech, CNN had broadcast key parts of it.
In the lead sentence of another front-page article, The Times claimed that Justice Scalia had acted unethically by speaking to a group that — according to The Times — was backing a lawsuit against gay rights: "Justice Antonin Scalia gave a keynote dinner speech in Philadelphia for an advocacy group waging a legal battle against gay rights."
False. The group had nothing to do with that lawsuit.
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I just got a call from Satan. He said they were playing hockey in hell after this ran in the LA Times.
Another way to correct this habit of the LATimes is to make this column NOT experimental - and put it on the front page, above the fold daily!
Wonder if the daily beatings from Hugh Hewitt are starting to work?
They only played for a few seconds before the puck and skate blades froze to the ice and the whole game went to hell..........or however they would phrase that in hell.
Actually, a NHL labor negotiator arrived.
Interestingly, the most popular feature of the self-styled newspaper is NOT the news on paper.
No mention of the Arnold hit pieces that happened in the days leading up to the election?
Oh hell! In that case the only use left for all that ice is making Margaritas.
Apparently their rabid liberal agitprop is causing them some blowback.
Just within the last couple of days I read that someone who called the LA Times to cancel his subscription because of the paper's liberal bias was offered a subscription without the news sections.
The Philadelphia Inquirer is having their editorial staff call former subscribers who cancelled after a pre-election editorial listing 22 reasons to vote for Kerry.
Conservatives are starting to hold news outlets accountable for being rabidly partisan in favor of liberals.
I believe the best medicine is to ignore them. They will not correct themselves let them die on their own.
This sounds like it was written by a freeper.
And these aren't mistakes. They are deliberate mis-interpretations by the media in order to make conservatives look bad.
When was the last time they made a "mistake" that made a liberal look bad?
Did anyone notice what followed the article--starting with sosme sort of poll? I thought that was pretty revealing,
And if you believe that, I have some ocean-front property in Montana you may be interested in...
A pig just flew by my window.
Did anyone else notice the google links at the bottom of the article?:
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From the Times viewpoint, they already have a wide variety of viewpoints represented -- Left, Far Left, Marxist, Maoist, Trotskyite, and Moonbat.
Let a Conservative, or even a Humphrey/Lieberman Liberal in the Times newsroom and Robert Scheer's head would explode like a Baghdad road side IED. Can't have that much variety, ya know.
I'm in!
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