From: Platt Holden (pholden@sc.rr.com)
Date: Mon Jan 17 2005 - 15:15:35 GMT
HI MSH,
Thanks for making my point--the NY Times is not to be trusted as a
credible source.
> In fact, the NYT published numerous allegations about WMD in Iraq
> that turned out to be false-- such as one source's claim that "all of Iraq
> is one large storage facility" for nuclear, biological and chemical
> weapons. Such stories appeared daily on the paper's front page, and did a
> great deal to sell the White House's bogus case for war against Iraq.
> While the Times has admitted that some of its WMD reporting was
> "insufficiently qualified or allowed to stand unchallenged," the reporter
> most responsible for those stories, Judith Miller, was never sanctioned by
> the Times-- and indeed still continues to report on Iraq for the paper (as
> far as I know). Ironically, after MSNBC's Hardball finished its discussion
> of CBS and journalistic responsibility on January 10, the show turned to a
> discussion of Iraq featuring... Judith Miller.
Thanks for confirming that CBS news is also not to be trusted.
> It's true that CBS released a report on its use of a few disputed
> documents about Bush's stint in the National Guard, announcing that
> they had fired or asked for the resignations of four staffers.
MSH says it's ridiculous to think that journalists have a liberal bias:
> Anyway, it's ridiculous to claim that these controversies somehow
> prove that the commercial media have a liberal or anti-Bush bias.
But even the old curmudgeon Andy Rooney of CBS news admits it: "That
reporters or anchormen have often made apparent their liberal political
opinions is true." This is not to mention two books written by a former
CBS news insider Bernard Goldberg describing in detail how CBS slants the
news in favor of secular leftists.
However, no amount of evidence will persuade those who cite Ramsey Clark,
much less Chomsky, as credible authorities on anything. :-)
Platt
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