[lit-ideas] Re: From FAIR on Beating the Drum
- From: Andy Amago <aamago@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 3 Feb 2007 19:50:02 -0500 (GMT-05:00)
So much for careful reading, or even reading at all. I didn't write this.
It's an excerpt from FAIR. Wow. I'm stunned. You really thought I wrote
this?
-----Original Message-----
>From: Robert Paul <rpaul@xxxxxxxx>
>Sent: Feb 3, 2007 7:39 PM
>To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: From FAIR on Beating the Drum
>
>> http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=3037
>>
>> NYT, networks offer scant skepticism on Iran claims
>
>> The next day, the New York Times ran a remarkably similar story
>> (1/31/07), again relying exclusively on anonymous government
>> officials (U.S and Iraqi). While the Times did note that "Officials
>> cautioned that no firm conclusions had been drawn and did not
>> reveal any direct evidence of a connection," the paper nonetheless
>> went on at some length describing the theory that an off-shot of
>> the Mahdi Army connected to the Iranian government was behind the
>> attack. The Times report relied exclusively on unnamed officials.
>> The article's entire sourcing:
>
>The Times reports what various unnamed officials say. Are you
>questioning that they said it? No; apparently you think the Times (and
>some of the more sensational sources you named) should have 'been more
>sceptical.' How? By putting a 'Not!' after the story's headline? By
>noting that the 'official sources' mentioned were lying scoundrels? By
>not printing the story at all?
>
>You call running this story 'beating the drum' for an attack on Iran?
>You were right the first time--you had no evidence for your earlier
>claim. You still don't. I'm done.
>
>Robert Paul,
>waiting for the circus of Doctor Lao
>to return to Abalone, Arizona
>
>
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