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To: BlessedBeGod
So what's your beef?

My beef is that Newsmax is sometimes not accurate, and sometimes incorrigibly lazy.

As only one of many examples, last week it reported without any followup Ollie North's TV assertion that North Vietnam's General Giap had written favorably about Vietnam Vets Against the War (Kerry) in a 1985 autobiography.

Now, if true, that would be a huge story. But Newsmax offered no followup with North, no mention of the name of the book, no mention of Giap's actual quote, nothing. Just a recitation of North's claim. Zero followup, zero digging.

That (like many of their stories) would not have passed muster in a real newsroom. A serious news editor would say "What, you're reporting from TV talk shows now? Go get the rest of the dam**d story!"

That's my beef.

95 posted on 02/21/2004 8:53:03 AM PST by angkor
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To: angkor
well said!
114 posted on 02/21/2004 9:13:02 AM PST by thesummerwind (Like painted kites, those days and nights, they went flyin' by)
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To: angkor
If you aren't contesting any facts, it doesn't make sense to make a comment as if you are, whether you have a beef in general with them or not.
140 posted on 02/21/2004 10:34:51 AM PST by BlessedBeGod
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