Letters to the Editor
L.W.M.
Published Letters: 6163 Editor's Choice: 5
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LWM responds
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]Jojo++
I see your problem. Both of your split personalities are doubly conflicted.
Danny Sleator
You try blogging sometime. It's not as easy as reading them. If Glenn wants to blog about his own haircut prefernces one day, I'll have no problem with that. I'll read it. It might even be a welcome change.
Sammis,
"First, I'm not sure who the eighth most quoted scholar in the world is..."
It's Noam Chomsky. Pat Tillman's favorite author. He is uniquely absent from our national discourse and has been for years. That is no accident. That is intentional bias and censorship by exclusion in our liberal media. Do not presume to lecture me about bias in our media. Until you recognize the fact that there are no left wing voices in our media we cannot "get along" because you do not perceive objective reality. If you think that Michael Moore is a "leftist," you are not a serious person. I'd put you in the same class as those three morons who raised their hands when asked who did not "believe in evolution". Fidel Castro is a leftist, and not as much of one as you might think.
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-- sysprog nails it: Fox "News" scoop! Allbritton family are Democrats!
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]This is information warfare 101.
Black propaganda. The money funding Politico is from the GOP and "trusted, fair and balanced" news source Fox paints it as a liberal Democratic news source. This explains why people like Sammis are are suffering from severe cognitive distortion, dissonance and confusion and that is the intent. When you can't tell your left from your right and are dizzy and disoriented from all the spinning, you'll fall for anything. It's not enough to have critical thinking skills and pride yourself on thinking you are able to recognize bias and propaganda. You had better understand the basics of information warfare, disinformation and black propaganda.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_warfare
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Sammis
[Read the article: Who funds and runs the Politico?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]But I once again stand by my assertion that no matter what you're interested in, reading multiple sources is not only advisable, but inherently necesary in forming a complete view. That's why academics deal with multple historical texts, even though historical texts deal with factual events. Because even when the facts are not disputed (which they often are), those accounts that at the time are considered "objective" often differ."
Please. I just went through this with Mona and some other actual troll on another thread. Let's leave history and historical revisionism out of it for the moment. But make no mistake, they are trying to rewrite that as well, and have been for some time. Perhaps you are unaware of the controvery surrounding Bush's appoinment of Alan Weinstein as the National Archivist of the United States. There is hardly any point in reading NRO or The Washington Times or watching Fox News if you want actual facts, unless you are blogging and taking that crap apart as part of your job. These are all propaganda organs of the extreme right, which is now in control of our governemnt. To assume that the WaPo is a "liberal" source is just ludicrous. Who was it that just came out and said it was nothing more than a "neocon rag"? It's editorial page is as bad as the WSJ's. The NYTimes printed all of Judith Miller's adminsitration lies about WMDs that got us into Iraq. That's not news. That's propaganda. If I want news and facts, I don't get them from any local sources. I go to foreign sources. Democracy Now with Amy Goodman is the best TV news source in America at this time. Sure, it has a slant, reality. But it reminds me of the evening network news I used to watch as a kid in the 50s and 60s when they actually had news departments and attempted real reporting on things that mattered. I'll post this again:
Australian journalist and author John Pilger in an address at Columbia University on 14 April 2006:
During the Cold War, a group of Russian journalists toured the United States. On the final day of their visit, they were asked by their hosts for their impressions. "I have to tell you," said their spokesman, "that we were astonished to find after reading all the newspapers and watching TV, that all the opinions on all the vital issues were by and large, the same. To get that result in our country, we imprison people, we tear out their fingernails. Here, you don’t have that. What’s the secret? How do you do it?"
http://www.johnpilger.com/page.asp?partid=267