Those aren't flies dropping.
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Posted on 08/07/2007 5:38:18 PM PDT by Bob Leibowitz
Can the Second Coming be far distant? Given the glimpses of truth beginning to filter through the pages of darkness typically published by the Main Stream Media, one wonders.
First, in June, The New York Times surprises all several hundred of its remaining readers with a major news story reporting the developing sense of peace spreading across the battlefield that was Anbar province.
Anbar, for nearly three years it was regarded as the most hopeless space and people in all Iraq. It was hopeless. A year after putting into effect the strategies developed by General David Petraeus, Anbar knows evenings, days and weeks without gunfire. Sunni and Shia cooperate in keeping the peace. The American footprint in the province is shrinking while that of Iraqi forces grows.
Anbar is news but its not the biggest news.
The biggest news is that the story appeared in The New York Times.
(Excerpt) Read more at Canticle4Leibowitz.com ...
“Dropping Like Flies”
And that’s not where the similarity ends.
Not fast enough!
BTW, “A Canticle for Liebowitz” was my favorite intellectual science fiction/satire in high school.
It seems like every week there is yet another story here on Free Republic about another newspaper that is cutting back and laying off staff. The MSM as we know it is undergoing big changes. They no longer can spood feed us what they want us to know and ignore other things that don’t fit an agenda.
The newspaper business in particular and the MSM in general are retrenching, and will have to adapt to survive in the new communications world.
You mean, "spork-feed" us?
Be happy to see them take up a more honest profession -- like used-car salesmen.
I am more of a fan of the Knifoon.
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Man, it's been 30 or more years since I read that one! Post-apocalyptic, if I remember correctly. I'm going to have to go re-Wiki my memory...
Ping.
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