Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

To: bikepacker67
Look at how they wrote that second paragraph:

Mr. Berger inadvertently removed at least two slightly different versions of a memo critiquing how the government handled national intelligence and security issues before the millennium celebration in December 1999, as well as personal notes he had taken on classified documents, one of Mr. Berger's lawyers, Lanny Breuer, said Monday night.

Now, let's write it more honestly:

According to a statement released Monday night by Lanny Breuer, one of Berger's lawyers, Mr. Berger inadvertently removed at least two slightly different versions of a memo critiquing how the government handled national intelligence and security issues before the millennium celebration in December 1999, as well as personal notes he had taken on classified documents.

The first makes "inadvertent" seem like a factual news item - you don't get that it is a claim from an attorney until the end. The second way makes it clear that this is a statement from the lawyer.

4 posted on 07/20/2004 1:51:09 PM PDT by dirtboy (John Kerry - Hillary without the fat ankles and the FBI files...)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]


To: dirtboy

good translation!

The New York Times: (212) 556-7652
The New York Post: (212) 930-8000

ABC: 212-456-7777
CBS: 212-975-4321
NBC: 212-664-4444
CNN: 404-237-0234
Fox:1-888-369-4762
NY York Daily News (212) 210-NEWS

Bill O'Reily
E-mail: oreilly@foxnews.com

Sean Hannity
hannity@foxnews.com

Alan Colmes
colmes@foxnews.com

Phylis Schlafly
eagle@eagleforum.org

Oliver North
http://www.northamerican.com/-cybercall/pg-call.htm

Janet Parshall, conservative talk show host
(703) 276-8597
Fax: (703) 516-7212
E-Mail us at: info@jpamerica.com

Brit Hume
Special Report with Brit Hume
Special@foxnews.com

Hugh Hewitt (conservative talk show host/columnist)
http://www.hughhewitt.com/

Michael Medved (conservative talk show host/columnist)
http://www.michaelmedved.com/contact.shtml

I got these addresses from Media Research Center,

http://www.mediaresearch.org/MediaAddresses/mediaaddresses.asp#If%20the

Atlanta Journal-Constitution
e-mail: conedit@ajc.com

Houston Chronicle
e-mail: viewpoints@chron.com

Miami Herald
e-mail: HeraldEd@herald.com

The New York Times
letters@nytimes.com

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
e-mail: letters@post-gazette.com

USA Today
e-mail: editor@usatoday.com

The Wall Street Journal
e-mail: letter.editor@edit.wsj.com

The Washington Post
e-mail: Letterstoed@washpost.com

The Washington Times
e-mail: wtnews@wt.infi.net


20 posted on 07/20/2004 2:06:52 PM PDT by votelife (Calling abortion a women's issue is like calling war a men's issue!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 4 | View Replies ]

To: dirtboy

That's what I like about Free Republic. A forum filled with educated people who can recognize how language can be used to present a reality that conforms to your views without actually lying. I've actually used some freeper analyses of articles in class with my students to show them how to recognize opinion masquerading as fact. KUDOS to the most erudite Forum on the worldwideweb.


30 posted on 07/20/2004 2:40:24 PM PDT by xkaydet65 (" You have never tasted freedom my friend, else you would know, it is purchased not with gold, but w)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 4 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson