"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..
I know what the author was hoping his readers would think. I was just rephrasing it into the position I think he was really trying to defend.