Letters to the Editor
Pope Ratzo
Published Letters: 10
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Hurting my head from things Joe Klein said
[Read the article: Everything that is rancid and corrupt with modern journalism: The Nutshell]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Glenn, My wife wants you to stop posting about Joe Klein and Time Magazine's astounding display of the horrific state of mainstream journalism circa 2007. She's tired of me reading your column then grinding my teeth all night in my sleep.
Seriously, there has to be something else I can do besides send this Painton phony a letter only to get ignored and sent a form letter in return. It's our helplessness in the face of Time's (and most mainstream media's) purposeful failure that's really bothering me.
It's been over a decade since I stopped my Time subscription. After having subscribed continuously since being gifted with a subscription while I was at University in the 80's I finally got so fed up with the terrible coverage of the Clinton impeachment that I canceled my subscription. Naturally, with the Internet, I no longer have need of any paper magazines sent to my house (besides the New York Review of Books, which has a pleasing shape and holds up well in the bathroom).
I guess I'll spend a little time in the next few days figuring out if there are any products or services from Time's parent company that I can stop buying, and certainly, I'll suggest to my friends that they do the same. But if there's anything else you can suggest, please let me know. Certainly if there's any Time Warner media in which I'm interested, I'll make sure to download it via bittorrent instead of paying for it, but there must be some other ways for me to express my disgust for their entire enterprise, especially with Klein, Painton, and Time.
Bless you for your work, Glenn, but it's not doing much for my peace of mind.
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Don't stop, Glenn
[Read the article: Time magazine refused to publish responses to Klein's false smears]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Glenn, please don't let up on the Time Magazines and Joe Kleins of our nation. I know the apologists on the Right will say you're beating a dead horse or making a big deal out of nothing, but I guarantee you are having a positive effect on discourse.
You're one of the most persuasive and hard-hitting of any columnists I've read, and your willingness to hunt, and peck, and follow-up and hit harder, and follow-up again and again until you get to the truth and expose the liars, must make you one of the most feared writers in America.
The bad actors in our society rely on what they think is the short attention span of citizens, when in fact, it's the media that has the short attention span. Keep in up, Glenn, and make the lives of the liars and the lazy media miserable.
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Go Barack
[Read the article: Barack Obama: "Committed Christian -- Called to Bring Change"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Hey, the guy's got to get elected, after all.
If it helps him to send secret hand signs to the god botherers, I say "go ahead".
I seriously doubt he's going to consult his bible when it comes to setting policy. To me, that's the important thing.
I don't care if he's a religious guy just because I'm not. I just want him to keep that superstitious stuff to himself when it comes to governing.
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The truth
[Read the article: Jay Rockefeller's unintentionally revealing comments]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"I WANT massive, widespread and uncontrolled civil unrest. I WANT to totally collapse the house of cards that is our current unsustainable war "economy". I WANT to totally collapse the system of government as it now stands."
I'm in. Jay Rockefeller, Harry Reid and others have shown themselves to be completely false patriots. They deserve to go down in defeat. To think I was happy when Reid became majority leader. Maybe we'd have been better off had the Democrats stayed in the minority. Perhaps sufficient anger would have built up during another 4 years of GOP rule to actually bring some change. I knew we were screwed when Connecticut sent Joe Lieberman back to the Senate.
Reid and Leahy and Rockefeller, Pelosi and Feinstein, and others have taken the last shreds of my hope for the Democratic Party. It's true, apparently, that the whole thing has to come apart before we'll see any change.
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Lying by another name
[Read the article: Journalists, McCain and the false Iran/al-Qaida link]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]When I was growing up, "not being careful about sticking to established facts" was grounds for my getting punished.
My mom called it "lying". I guess Mr. McCain's "spiritual advisors" never spoke to him about that Commandment.
Or maybe the stress of being held captive by the North Vietnamese damaged the part of the brain that allows one to tell the difference between the truth and a lie.
Or, just maybe, it comes with being a Republican.
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wrong, in fact
[Read the article: "Great American Hypocrites: Toppling the Big Myths of Republican Politics"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"We don't agree with "everything" Glenn says"
Actually, I do.
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keep your powder dry, Glenn
[Read the article: Major revelation: U.S. media deceitfully disseminates government propaganda]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I understand your criticism of the Times, Glenn, but I think it's a good sign that a story like this even came out in a highly visible spot on a Sunday. That's progress, and before we start reminding NYT of how fucked up they've been, we ought to at least take a day to pat them on the head.
Clearly, the power elite know exactly how to manage the media's behavior through the use of treats and terror. We should learn to use some of those tools a little better, if only to be able to neutralize them.