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To: TheCrusader
"our previous policies have made it perfectly plausible.' That's the deeper issue here...." Mark Whitaker, Newseek

- This is an amazing statement. Said another way, "our low journalistic standards make a false story plausable to the ignorant reader". - TheCrusader

True. But I think he was really trying to say "We've gotten away with it before. The big question is 'why didn't we get away with it this time?'"

157 posted on 05/16/2005 2:46:51 PM PDT by TigersEye ("It's a Republic if you can keep it." - B. Franklin)
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To: TigersEye; TheCrusader

Andrew Sullivan isn't talking about Newsweak's policies, he's talkiing about our previous policies as in the U.S. govt's previous policies (as if Abu Graib was according to policy).


181 posted on 05/16/2005 2:58:33 PM PDT by Cousin Eddie
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To: TigersEye

"our previous policies have made it perfectly plausible.' That's the deeper issue here...." Mark Whitaker, Newseek
- This is an amazing statement. Said another way, "our low journalistic standards make a false story plausable to the ignorant reader". - TheCrusader

True. But I think he was really trying to say "We've gotten away with it before. The big question is 'why didn't we get away with it this time?'"


Actually I think you guys are both wrong ( with due respect), I think he was trying to say that our previous policies....as in the United States' Previous Policies have made this plausible....basically the same bs reasoning that Dan Rather tried..


290 posted on 05/16/2005 11:48:31 PM PDT by YoungBlackRepublican (90 percent of African Americans Vote Democrat...that's not independent thinking...it's sheep like)
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