What do these three entities have in common?

1. Network news

2. Newspapers

3. Iraq war

Answer: They are all owned and operated by corporate interests only concerned with profit.

Please review your corporate rules book for a more thorough understanding of corporate thinking in America.

www.sjtrek.com/trek/rules

Walter Cronkite is a die hard Republican who flaunted his wealth all over magazine covers, showing off his yacht.

I have no respect for Walter Cronkite who should have stood up for Dan Rather when he was thrown in the wringer.

Any correspondent who lasts as long as Walter Cronkite, must have not had substance. It's the short timers that mean something.

If I were Katie Couric, I would tell the T.V. giants to take their job and shove it. I would no more put up with their putting me on T.V. with the other two giant anchors and letting me be pounded with verbal put downs than I would take this torture regime that is pounding me with enormous leg cramps, blows to the knees, ankles, shin bones, neck bones, rectum stabbings with kitchen butcher knives, and everything else this psycho federal government is doing to me.

I have zero respect for Brian Williams. He is a weak patsy who kissess the ass of his boss and does whatever the monster tells him to do. Why don't you, Brian Williams, quit also and try to expose this weapon system being used on me. Do you truly care about your children? If you do, you will help me to bring this new fascist feurer torture regime to its knees, like Edward R. Murrow brought down the Cointelpro regime.

You're just a loser, Brian who thinks your family needs you to bring home hundreds of thousands of dollars or they will die.

It doesn't matter. heru-ur's version, the big bad gummint picking on the poor defenseless child, is making both the national and international rounds and entering the land of libertarian apocrypha. So when history is written, it will be written wrong. And if we come back to this in two years, or ten years, and someone digs in deep and discovers what really happened, and writes about it, there will be peals of laughter and showers of derision all over, because 1 million google hits will point to some other history.

Thus is history written, not by the victors, but by the anti-tax whining right wing, who's ass the media loves. Have you noticed all the wingers with an alternative history on Vietnam, one in which Jimmy Doolittle flew thirty seconds over Tet and Johnny went marching to victory across the Rubicon, only to be drawn and quartered by the evil Shaitan Walter Cronkite? Ever wonder how such crap gets started?

Has it occurred to you that the sprain might not have been severe enough to cause a healthy, athletic, young man so much of a problem that he would not be able to continue? This would be especially true of a young man who enjoys challenging himself.

Look, the lad either sprained his ankle which by definition is an incapacitating injury causing the victim not to be able to walk on it or he did not sprain his ankle.

If as according to you he suffered the American styled sprain ankle which in no way impedes you from climbing mountains then it wasn't much of a sprain after all.

And if he wasn't injured enough to cause him to stop walking his being in need of rescue must, perforce, have been for other reasons than have been led to believe.

And any attempt by you to grade sprains in order of severity works against your argument. There might be slight sprains which would still enable a subject to hobble along a level pavement but even such a slight one would leave you fucked well an truly if trying to scramble up scree.

If he could hike he can't have been injured.

"...and secondly by confusing the issue of telling a newstory with giving an opinion."

And what do you think the filtering of the story is? We're not calculators. The only people who live the illusion are those who want to use neutrality as an enabling rationale to defang those they disagree with. I have no problem with propaganda, so long as it is factually correct. Everything beyond that is opinion.

After working for 30 or so years as a newspaperman in New York (too long ago for anyone now in the business to recall, I hope) I am quite happy with television news, commentators, pundits, and all other bumper-sticker orators. I recommend my solution to everyone except those interested in bitter satire.

I don't watch them. I don't listen to them.

And, forgive me, media heroes, I have checked out Salon all of twice. After reading the piece commenting on Kronkite and Halberstam, mostly via Harper's Mag quotes, I think I'll check in more often. (Though the short by Thrush on Maloney and the 'N" word deserved either a lot more explanation or being pulled until more information is available.)

The best reporting one can expect nowadays remains in the print media (yes, yes, also along with a bit the worst; that's show biz), in which I include Salon, Politico, and others of that better ilk on the Internet.

In my day, which began with hot metal, once one left journalism school, one became a reporter or a rewriteman, feature-writer, whatever. Journalists weren't even dead reporters back then.

But I am babbling and must stop before I admit to having committed great embarrassments in my own newspaper career.

Loved every minute of it.

It only gets more transparent. Even Keith O. pulls his punches. The best I expect from him is exposing sockpuppetry and the astroturfing of lies that are made up entirely - like AP's health reform cost estimate from last week. I saw it again on MSNBC's Morning Joe. Why I waste my time with criminal liars and cheats I don't know....they smell funny.

"Look, the lad either sprained his ankle which by definition is an incapacitating injury causing the victim not to be able to walk on it or he did not sprain his ankle."

You apparently have a problem reading so I'll go over it once more in the hope that repetition will help.

http://orthoinfo.aaos.org/topic.cfm?topic=a00150

Grade 1

Minimal tenderness and swelling

Minimal

Microscopic tearing of collagen fibers

Weight bearing as tolerated

No splinting/casting

Isometric exercises

Full range-of-motion and stretching/ strengthening exercises as tolerated

Ankle sprains are not, "by definition", incapacitating. They can range anywhere from annoying to crippling but it's not a rule that a person with an ankle sprain has to stay off his feet or that he will be unable to walk. Read the article at the link I posted for you if you still fail to understand English as written in Pennsylvania.

It's entirely possible, even probable, that this "lad" suffered only a minor sprain. Even so, it is still a damned sprain. With a minor sprain, a person can walk. A person such as this athletic young man, could probably tolerate continuing his hike - albeit with reservations which would cause him to do things somewhat differently than when he did not have a sprained ankle.