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Saturday, March 8, 2008 12:00 AM

Tucker Carlson unintentionally reveals the role of the American press

The MSNBC TV personality attacks a British reporter for doing something "hurtful" to the powerful.
Glenn Greenwald

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  • Saturday, March 8, 2008 05:38 AM

    Circular argument

    So, basically... this is Carlson's argument:

    - Let's withhold the truth from the public when a "powerful person"tells us to do so.

    - In withholding the truth, we will gain trust from "powerful people", who will then continue to tell us the truth.

    - And the objective of getting "powerful people"to tell us the truth is so that we can withhold it from the public to gain even more trust.

    Ermm, what?? How is that even logical?

    —Bitten the dust Read Bitten the dust's other letters

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