Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] [POLITICS] Was the 2004 Election Stolen?

[Stephen Montgomery-Smith <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

Mike Miller wrote:
> On Sat, 3 Jun 2006, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote:
>
> > Mike Miller wrote:
> >
> > > On Sat, 3 Jun 2006, Vern Green wrote:
> >
> >
> > > > So how about a little more information to debunk Kennedy's article. 
> > > > At Salon.com there is an article by Farhad Majoo. Not exactly the 
> > > > bastion of conservatism over there at Salon, but his article is 
> > > > pretty interesting.
> > > >
> > > > http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2006/06/03/kennedy/
> > >
> > >
> > > Did you see any of the user comments?  They hate him.
> >
> >
> > My impression is that the original article was not without its 
> > distortions, and this new article tends to support that.  Quite likely 
> > the new article has its own distortions as well.  But how am I 
> > supposed to know?
>
>
>
> That's a nice summary of the way the news media deals with things these 
> days.  Twenty years ago, if someone said "2+2=5," he would be corrected, 
> but now we bring someone on to say that "2+2=4" and the reporter says 
> "Fascinating controversy.  Who is right?  Which is true.  You decide!"  
> I guess it helps them to bring in more advertising revenue.  (This 
> problem is affecting us in the "debate" about evolution and creationism 
> and in the "debate" about global warming.)

Do you think that things were ever better?  Wasn't the American-Spanish 
War driven by newspapers driving public opinion on who was really 
responsible for the sinking of the "Maine" battleship?

And didn't the newspapers in the 1920's idolize bank robbers like Bonnie 
and Clyde?

Stephen

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