Posted on 08/06/2008 10:08:17 PM PDT by Kaslin
How about all the airplanes they found buried under cloth protection and under large sand dunes in the desert???
That’s the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
Journalists claim to produce "the first draft of history." And historians seem to agree with that. But then historians turn around and say that you can't write history of anything that happened less than 20 years ago. And the reason for that is obvious - anything more recent than that, and the "first draft" dominates.In reality, as you suggest, journalism is so slanted as to be essentially useless for historical purposes unless you analyze its reports with such a skeptical eye that very little is left after you edit it down to whatever truth it contains. The reason is simple: journalism (and history) purports to discuss the public interest but journalism's actual mission is to interest the public - and that is quite a different thing than the public interest. You can interest the pubic with fiction, and that is essentially what journalism does in many cases. E.g., the "Duke Lacrosse Rape" cause celebre, and the "Killian Memo" hoax.
So you really can't write decent history of anything without putting "objective" journalism on the stand and grilling it as a hostile witness. "Objective journalism" can rightly be spoken of as a single entity because it is a creature of the illegal monopoly (held to be in violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act by SCOTUS in 1945) known as the Associated Press. Any newspaper of the pre-1850, pre-AP era was openly partisan and would have laughed to scorn any suggestion its competitors were "objective." Before the AP, newspapers existed but journalism as we know it scarcely existed - most newspapers were weeklies which weren't in the business of rushing to press with novel stories.
BTTT
I tried to view Talladega Nights but I never finished. It was unwatchable.
Please repost the last paragraph from time to time in the more popular threads. It was positively enlightening to read your description. It is full of the unvarnished truth.
Exactly. I was pulled in by my son and wife, too. "Stepbrothers" had the audacity to do a hit on President Bush before the beginning. That was absolutely the worst piece of GARBAGE I have ever seen in my entire life.
Thanks for the ping. Interesting observation. BTTT!
Huh?
The video you linked to was fantastic. Evan Sayet is brilliant. This should be mandatory viewing for any serious conservative. Thanks for link.
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