> [Original Message] > From: Robert Paul <robert.paul@xxxxxxxx> > To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Date: 10/26/2005 2:17:40 AM > Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: NYT in the news again > > Andreas writes: > > > Okay, Robert, while you're packing up a red herring to send to me > > (wrapped in the NYT), here's your example. See below, an article from > > today's Salon. > > I want to thank Andreas for actually doing some work and looking for > evidence, instead of, well, admitting that he never reads the Times, > although he knows what's in it, as I've heard of some people doing. > Whether or not I waste my time reading the NYT doesn't change that the NYT publishes fantasy and propaganda on their front page as fact. If you want to get your "news" from the NYT, far be it from me to stop you. I still think the real question is, why in the world is the NYT considered liberal when they hated Clinton, don't write about the damage Bush has done to the economy, and supported an invasion based on information they knew or should have dug up to be clearly false. Why did they do no investigative reporting into what the administration was up to instead of giving them cover? The red herring idea is not that far off the mark; it's the reason the NYT runs "liberal" editorials so their made up stories on page one can make the administration look good or bad depending on who's in the White House. "Facts" presumably carry much more weight than opinion. Whatever happened to Laurie Mylroie, the conspiracy theorist about Hussein and 9/11? I wonder if she wasn't a paid hack to push the idea (paid by whom, the NYT isn't telling), or if she smelled a best seller and threw one together. Off the subject, I saw a chilling headline. Bush appointed a new Fed Chairman, Greenspan is resigning. I don't know a thing about this guy, but given Bush's other appointments and accomplishments, I shudder to think what's going to happen to the economy now. Given the oil prices, the country is tottering on the brink of an inflationary spiral again, like in the 70's. It wouldn't take much in the way of stupid monetary policy to push it over the edge. Andy Amago ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html