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2004-09-17 Home Front: Politix

LA Times Displays Naked Authoritarianism, Demolishes Strawman

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Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2004-09-17 8:04:40 PM|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 The MSM has to depend on the appeal to authority, because anyone can do their job. Their habit of sneering at those who aren't "real journalists" (Drudge, bloggers, actual witnesses to events) carries over into everything they do.

The odd thing is when their biases are confronted by real experts -- like when Rather had to deal with some of the national experts in documents, and some of the very people involved in creating modern word processing software -- they ignore or deny the expertise.

Posted by Robert Crawford 2004-09-17 8:33:47 PM|| [http://www.kloognome.com/] 2004-09-17 8:33:47 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 "That icky guy who said all those mean things about the memos being fake is a Republican, so that must mean the memos are, ummmmm....still fake."

Posted by Seafarious 2004-09-17 9:12:34 PM|| 2004-09-17 9:12:34 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 The MSM is trying to deflect the message by shooting the messenger. Pavlov's dog learns faster than Dan Rather and Co. Heh heh.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2004-09-17 9:15:58 PM|| 2004-09-17 9:15:58 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 Pavlov's dogs reminded me of a zany irrelevancy for some reason.
National Lampoon's "World Map Parody" was one of the greatest flights of imagination in the history of satire.
It had hundreds of joke geographic names on a complete map of the globe, including "Slavelaborsk" and "Pavlovdoggrad" in the Soviet Union, "Yomama" in West Africa, the "Dire Straits" and the "Disease Islands" in the Pacific, "Kidneystone" England; and, of course, Cornhole, KS and Little Hope MA in the United States.
I haven't seen a copy in years, but I think PJ O'Rourke was a contributor.

Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2004-09-17 9:37:45 PM|| 2004-09-17 9:37:45 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 HEY! PRAVDA WEST! We won't say anything about the "Democrat Activism" of Burkett who spends a lot of time at Kinko's.

Posted by BigEd 2004-09-17 9:52:20 PM|| 2004-09-17 9:52:20 PM|| Front Page Top

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