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 > > > > ----------------------- > > > > To change your mail settings or leave the C-PALSY > list, go here: > > > > > http://listserv.icors.org/SCRIPTS/WA-ICORS.EXE?SUBED1=c-palsy > > > > > > -- > > > 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 > > ----------------------- > > To change your mail settings or leave the C-PALSY list, go > here: > > http://listserv.icors.org/SCRIPTS/WA-ICORS.EXE?SUBED1=c-palsy ----------------------- To change your mail settings or leave the C-PALSY list, go here: http://listserv.icors.org/SCRIPTS/WA-ICORS.EXE?SUBED1=c-palsy