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To: marty60

"We have the most ignorant lazy and stupid media in the history of the U.S. They have no idea how to rport stories truthfully. If they wanted practice their craft honorably,"



Anyone who doubts your words should only have a news story written about them. Many years ago I started a business which I initially ran from my home, the local newspaper happened to be running a series of articles on the subject of home based businesses and a reporter telephoned me and got my permission to do a story and he did a telephone interview. When the story came out in the paper I almost didn't recognize myself, my first name had been changed to something not even remotely close to mine and the facts which I had detailed to the reporter were so scrambled as to be unrecognizable, supposedly "verbatim" quotes did not even resemble what I had said. Soon after this the local TV station contacted me and said they wanted to do a video as they were also interested in home based businesses. I politely declined.
I have had minimal confidence in news media since this experience.


90 posted on 08/24/2004 7:29:10 AM PDT by RipSawyer ("Embed" Michael Moore with the 82nd airborne.)
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To: RipSawyer
It gets even better: Houston Krone, todays editorial.

In later speeches opposing the war, Kerry seemed CONFUSED about the details of his deployment in OR near Cambodia in 1968, and about who was President at the time.

Not only are they stupid and DUM-b as a stone. They take skerry's seering memory and rewrite it for him.

92 posted on 08/24/2004 7:35:04 AM PDT by marty60
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