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

[Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Mon, 5 Jun 2006, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote:

> > 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?

That was one corrupt newspaper owner -- William Randolph Hearst -- acting 
on his own.


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

I don't know, but you can idolize someone, even an evil person, without 
ever printing a false statement.

Mike

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