[Diogenesis]

The Boston Globe lied on in its front page two (2) days in a row

BOSTON GLOBE FABRICATES FRONT-PAGE POLL [4/9/03]

BOSTON GLOBE FABRICATES FRONT-PAGE SLUR [4/8/03] - FReeRepublic Exclusive

Looks like the 2 cents is now at least a nickel.

[GB]

Care to shoot for a dime? (LOL!)

Seriously, my response to this was aimed at the one situation that was presented here. That is my basic mindset on things, I deal with individual situations and circumstances as they're presented and don't try to broad-brush anything or take anything for granted or assume anything.

The other stuff you and everybody else have said about the Boston Globe and how they've covered the war and other stuff? I have not the slightest doubt that you're telling the truth. Except for Jeff Jacoby's stuff, I basically avoid the Boston Globe like a plague when I look at other newspapers' offerings on the wire for the very reasons you've started. They used to have one columnist whose name escapes me right now, I think he's on some kind of sabbatical from the paper, but reading his stuff used to get me so mad to the point of absolutely stroking out, because he was always insulting the Sun Belt States (where I live) and holding up the big urban areas of the Northeast as being the absolute nirvana of the United States.

But again, my sole focus here was on this specific instance, because I will stake my conservative beliefs and support for this war and for President Bush against anyone else who posts here, but from a strictly professional journalistic standpoint I could very easily see myself having done that the same way the Globe did.

Maybe that's a sign that I am too principled and a bit naive, and don't take the street fight we're in with the opposition seriously enough. Who knows?

[LurkerNoMore!]

Good find.

[ClaireSolt]

No one has mentioned that Boston is not a democracy, but corrupt tyrrany, and the victims of its machine politics are as susceptible to propaganda as the Arab street is.

When our soldiers get through democraticizing Iraq, maybe we could send them to Boston and Chicago to liberate those people. And just maybe, we could set those micks free to live in the land of the free and the home of the brave. And, if, in the process, I see a soldier pause and have a cigarette in the halls of Camelot, I just hope that it won't be to late for him to get an American cigatette.