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i quit wasting good ink years ago. the best thing now is for them to keep breeding red ink and finally just die. 


--- On Fri, 7/25/08, Kendall D. Corbett <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> From: Kendall D. Corbett <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: I heard it with my own two ears!
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Date: Friday, July 25, 2008, 11:31 AM
> Kyle,
> 
> As Peter said, I hope you sent letters to the editor to
> "The Atlantic," and
> to the newspapers that carried the piece.  I get
> information that slams both
> candidates on an approximately equal basis, and try to set
> the record
> straight when necessary, and time allows.
> 
> Kendall
> 
> On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 7:47 AM, Peter Hunsberger <
> [log in to unmask]> wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 7:51 AM, Cleveland, Kyle E.
> > <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >
> > <snip/>
> >
> > > This morning I read Marc Ambinder's account
> of the exchange.  He is the
> > > associate editor of Atlantic magazine.
> >
> > [...]
> >
> > > You hear both parties complain that the media
> treats them unfairly-by
> > > what I heard yesterday and read this morning,
> they have a point.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > I've been involved with very few events that
> were covered by national
> > > media, but I've been intimately involved with
> several local news stories
> > > over the years and I'm always amazed that the
> media coverage has never
> > > presented the "facts" with 100%
> accuracy-particularly from television
> > > news, but it's endemic across all local
> media.  You would think that
> > > national news outlets would hold themselves to a
> higher standard of
> > > truth, but that's apparently not the case.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > We're reaping the fruit of what we've
> sown:  "Truth" is no longer
> > > objective in the west.  "Your
> 'truth' may not be my 'truth'", and,
> "we
> > > create our own reality" are common refrains
> coming out of journalism
> > > schools these days.  That, is a sad truth.
> > >
> >
> > If no one holds them accountable for reporting the
> truth there may be
> > more benefit to reporting what fits their agenda, or
> the agenda of
> > whomever they are beholding to.  I hope you wrote a
> letter to the
> > editor and "cc'd" it to the editors of
> some peer level publications?
> >
> >
> > --
> > Peter Hunsberger
> >
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> 
> 
> -- 
> 
> 
> Kendall
> 
> An unreasonable man (but my wife says that's
> redundant!)
> 
> The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the
> unreasonable one
> persists in trying to adapt the world to himself.
> Therefore, all progress
> depends on the unreasonable man.
> 
> -George Bernard Shaw 1856-1950
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