Mark Steyn: ALL THE NEWS THAT'S FIT TO BURY

National Post (via SteynOnline) ^ | 4/17/03 | Mark Steyn

[Tribune7]

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[mrustow]

Steyn is the best writer I've seen since Coulter and Sowell.

He's the best non-fiction writer I've seen since ... anyone.

[FreeperinRATcage]

Wasn't my creation...I stole it :)

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

A Steyn fix! Whew! Just in time, I needed that.

Ain't it the truth!

[Bob]

The New York Times:"All the News That's Fit To Print Print to Fit"

If I'm not mistaken, that should be:

The New York Times: "All the News That's Fit To Print That Fits Our Views"

[Victoria Delsoul]

CNN's slogan is "The Most Trusted Name In News", which rings a little hollow now.

Agreed.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

Once the terms of doing business with Saddam were clear, they should have got out. But CNN willingly conceded the right to report any news for what it saw as the far more valuable right to be allowed to continue to appear as if it were reporting the news.

This fits in with the effort of journalism in general to herd together, avoiding flame wars among journalistic outlets. Homogeneity as a substitute for veracity . . . The price is just the same--some things which you know are true, you decline to print for business reasons.

IOW, the putative "right to know" is a sham. You don't have a "right to know" anything. You have to filter out the irrelevant and the erroneous, and come to your own (fallible) conclusion. If you have that right, you also have the responsibility to yourself to think for yourself. And the first thing you must do in order to reach an intelligent conclusion is to clear your mind of the propaganda from journalism which cons you to assume that the whole truth is served on a silver platter by popular journalism.

[Utah Girl]

Mark Steyn ping

[AUsome Joy]

Rent-a-Rev Jesse Jackson, President-for-Life of the People’s Republic of Himself...Perfect!!

Pokey, I don't always thank you for the pings, but thanks. I always love these columns. War Eagle!! (Just a little spring practice for the fall.)

[GOPJ]

Says it all...

Once the terms of doing business with Saddam were clear, they should have got out. But CNN willingly conceded the right to report any news for what it saw as the far more valuable right to be allowed to continue to appear as if it were reporting the news.

[sarasmom]

Undeterred, Ms Burk is now threatening to move on from “live” protests to a campaign of commercial pressure on Augusta’s corporate associates, like Coca-Cola. "Let's sum it up this way: Round one ended with a protest with placards," she says. "Round two begins with a protest through the pocketbook." If all 40 of her supporters"

The current total of membership for the NOW makes the news far more often than any decent sized Neighborhood Watch Group.
Hmmmm.