Lots of gowns of ALL descriptions on this page.
Posted on 06/26/2004 1:10:53 PM PDT by BigWaveBetty
Lots of gowns of ALL descriptions on this page.
(NOTE TO SELF: One does not refer to one as "looney" when referee has a net worth of over ONE BILLION DOLLARS. One so wealthy is referred to as "refreshing".)
Teresa Heinz Kerry, wife of Democratic presidential hopeful John Kerry, plays with a group of childern after reading them a story Monday, June 28, 2004, at the Gace Hill head start center in St. Louis. (AP Photo/Tom Gannam)
Another prediction:
We all hope yesterday's historic handover of soverneignty in Iraq leads to crushing the insurgents and the opportunity to deliver on reconstruction and democracy.
When that happens, Iraq will disappear from the front pages (except for anything to do with Abu Graib, of course.). At some point, the tide will turn and the media will find its Baghdad correspondents submitting tapes of strolls through peaceful, industrious neighborhoods full of happy Iraqis.
"That's it", they'll say, "time to bring 'em home". And the media will fold its tent, transferring its correspondents to some new hotbed of anti-Americanism.
If Iraq succeeds, the media will ignore it rather than report it.
Gracious, what's with the maternity top?
Of course screaming at a candidate " Get your ass out" is no means of disrespect.
Trust me, she never said " You ough to........" She must think that we are all stupid.
If Iraq succeeds, the media will ignore it rather than, report it.
Have you seen a story about the NYT's ombudsman apologizing for the headline that there was no connection between Saddam and al Qaeda? I can't find the story, if you know of one could you please link it for me?
The Washington post is going to get a call and a letter from me after this informative piece from a reservist recently returned from Iraq. It's very good. He names names, places and dates of stories that are flat out lies.
The Pepto pink sweater is back. Is SF cold this time of year?
The smartest woman in the world tells dems, "We're going to have to take things away from you for the common good." Maybe she should call Mikey Moore, he's been trying (cough, cough) to give away his money. Link
Perfectly metrosexual.
There's not a man I know who would allow himself to be photographed with THAT glass and THOSE shoes.
Stretching across four columns of the front page, the June 17 headline "Panel Finds No Qaeda-Iraq Tie; Describes a Wider Plot for 9/11" caused some readers, including Vice President Dick Cheney, to accuse The Times of "outrageous" (Cheney's word) distortion of the 9/11 commission's staff report. I don't buy "outrageous," but "distortion" works for me - specifically, the common newspaper crime of distortion by abbreviation. The staff report was largely concerned with attacks on United States soil, whereas the headline bore no such qualification. The headline also leaned on two of those words whose brevity makes them dear to all newsrooms: the resolute "no," and the imprecise "tie." Assistant managing editor Craig Whitney, who oversees the front page, argues that "tie" in the headline is "a correct shorthand summary" of the report's conclusion that there appeared to be no "collaborative relationship" between Al Qaeda and Iraq.You can't tell me anyone reading that would think he had taken anyone to task.That's the problem with shorthand: If it's not written in your own hand, it's very hard to read. Headlines also pose two conundrums. The more complex the story, the more likely you are to get a headline that oversimplifies it. And the more complete the coverage associated with the headline, the less likely readers will find their own way to the gist of it. The main news section on June 17 contained eight separate articles on the staff report, consuming nearly 550 column inches. Unable to wander through all these glades and thickets of prose, many readers rely on headlines to provide as much of a summary as they are prepared to absorb.
While headlines may be short, their impact is large. Willful distortion? I don't see it. Misstep? Sure. Is an apology needed, as Internet columnist Bob Kohn, one of the paper's most forceful (and, often, most incisive) critics on the right, demanded by e-mail? No. Good reporting and careful presentation are what's needed. If out-of-tune headlines required apologies, the newspaper business would soon turn into a cacophony of confession.
---Daniel Okrent, ombudsman, NY Times.
Ha! Ya know how I said I wasn't going to watch Hardball anymore? Well, I didn't. But tonight I saw Chris was on vacation, so I turned it on.
Andrea Mitchell just asked John McCain: "Given the president's sinking poll numbers (!), do you forsee a time...maybe August...when the party insists on dumping Cheney and comes to you and asks you join the ticket?!"
I'm not kidding!
A Boy's Grave Is Carter's Soapbox
Mattie J.T. Stepanek, a 13-year-old Rockville, Md., boy who "wrote books of inspirational poems that climbed the bestseller charts," died last week of muscular dystrophy. Among those attending his funeral, the Washington Post reports, was Jimmy Carter:
Carter, a Nobel Peace Prize recipient, spoke of . . . Mattie's devotion to peace. "He was deeply aware of global affairs," Carter said, recalling that Mattie was in Children's Hospital's intensive care unit when the war in Iraq began last year.
"Mattie burst into uncontrollable sobs and grief," Carter said, and soon after, the former president received a letter from his then-12-year-old friend: "I feel like President Bush made a decision long ago about the war," Mattie wrote. "Imagine if he had spent as much time and energy . . . planning peace."
The letter continued, "Even though I want to talk to Osama bin Laden about peace in the future, I wouldn't want to be alone with him in his cave." The congregation dissolved into laughter.
"In the same letter," Carter added, "he asked if I would join him."
There is a longstanding tradition that ex-presidents do not publicly criticize their successors, a tradition for which Carter has shown such contempt that when the Norwegian Nobel Committee awarded him the Peace Prize in 2002, its members made clear they meant it as a poke in the eye of President Bush and America.
But using a child's funeral as a forum for this kind of attack is a new low. Just when you thought Bill Clinton was the tackiest ex-president, along comes Jimmy Carter to outcrass even him.
Click the link for a documentary on the horrors of NK.
CHILDREN OF THE SECRET STATE
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