Posted on 01/19/2007 4:37:15 PM PST by Kiss Me Hardy
SUNDAY Age columnist Terry Lane has been caught out again quoting unreliable Internet sources, despite a similar "almighty stuff-up" last year leading him to offer his resignation. It is the second time Lane has used spurious Internet claims to back anti-George W. Bush attacks in the paper – and this time to criticise Federal Opposition Leader Kevin Rudd. In his latest piece deriding the US Bush administration as a "self-evident force for stupidity", Lane claimed rangers at the world-famous Grand Canyon were banned from answering questions about the age of the park "because the truth will upset Bush's fundamentalist supporters".....
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I am both a believer in creation, and have no problem with 7 billion years.
I see no conflict whatsoever.
Maybe some day people will learn that paper will lie still and let you write anything on it.
Maybe some day people will learn that paper will lie still and let you write anything on it.
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The MSM has absolutely zero credibility now for anyone with an IQ over 65. The rest of America still belives what they read and they vote DemoRat. Right now, Americas worst enemy is the mindless, uninformed, stupid voter.
It is a good story. Mr. Lane is an idiot with an agenda.
I love the study of words. I looked up "furphy", Australians use it to mean a false report; rumor.
That does seem to be a problem here. You are right that the MSM can NOT be trusted. I wish the people here could grasp that and regard other stories that come out with the appropriate skepticism.
I hope they're holding his job open for William Rivers Pitt.
I think you and I are the only ones.
Now that is the truth. I think some of them were running around singing "oh happy day's". :)
Terry Lane is a radio broadcaster and newspaper columnist based in Melbourne, Australia.
He was born in South Australia and educated at Gawler High School. After studying for the ministry at the Churches of Christ College of the Bible in Melbourne, Lane was a minister for six years before working in the Methodist Department of Christian Education and the ABC's religious department.
He began a radio talk-back program for the ABC in Melbourne in 1977, which management discontinued after 11 months on account of Lane's radicalism.
Lane's journalist credibility has come into serious question with a recent column published on 30 July, 2006 in The Sunday Age(link no longer available) wherein Lane fell for the Jesse Macbeth hoax. This hoax was well know at the time of Lane's column. In a further article Lane suggest that while Macbeth's claims were fake those claims bespeak truth.
Lane is secretary of the anti-censorship organisation Free Speech Victoria.
Sounds like he had the same journo training as Dan Rather.
To that purpose I am convinced that they make stories up out of whole cloth for that very reason. By the time they are exposed the damage has been done. I think that we should regard any story that seems to shed a bad light on any group in the conservative movement with extreme skepticism until it has been throughly checked out. Especially when the story just doesn't seem to make sense to a rational person.
The Internet is a wonderful thing, so long as you maintain a healthy degree of skepticism and posess critical thinking skills.
I read that piece a few days ago and thought at the time it sounded suspect. I had no idea the reporter had a history of this sort of thing.
That's really funny. The Darwinists around FR really lapped up those stories.
But as I pointed out on both threads, the basic story was a whopping lie. Nothing to do with whether Darwinism of ancient geological theories are correct, either. The basic lie was that the Bush administration was enforcing creationism on the Park Service.
That was simply not true, as even careful readers of the article should have been able to see.
Not to mention the junk that comes in their email!
(Oh, wait...I just did < }B^)
Why should the Truth get in the way of a Good Story???
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