Posted on 08/08/2007 6:57:56 AM PDT by ParsifalCA
Bottom Line: Following the standards of journalism adopted by The New Republic and by my post-modern colleagues in the Academy, I have decided to report on my experiences in Iraq.
Now I have never been to Iraq, but I am told (by modern academics) that it is not the literal truth of the story that counts, but whether the story “smells right” or has the right over arching plot.
It seems good to try this out and write a story that is not true, but which accepts all the premises about the War and the troops that I am supposed to believe by people on the left (even though I do not believe them). In this way, I hope to get a job as a house conservative at some left-of-center journal.
What do liberals imagine (and keep assuming) conservatives believe about the War?
Leftists think conservatives believe... [more]
(Excerpt) Read more at exilestreet.com ...
Newspapers and other media are perplexed why their circulation is dropping.
Observation: We have food and drug purity laws to protect what we put into our body but there are no purity laws for what we put into our brains.
Because you can read whatever message you want to hear for free on the Internet. Hence the balkanization of what constitutes "truth."
IOW it has nothing to do with the integrity of the message. It's about what people want to hear and what they don't want to pay for it.
Oh, hahaha, what a funny premise and article. I hope he gets that in-house job, too.
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