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  • No, those are totally reasonable standards (0 / 0)

    That is their job, their only purpose for even existing, imo.

    I feel the same way about our alledged Fourth Estate. Collectively, they completely screwed the country, all the way back to not vetting and pounding on candidate Bush's flat out lies about his record in Texas (which Paul Krugman, bless his heart, has aired of late) and his evangelical beliefs.

    The NYT used to consistently bury the comments of Hans Blix, UN arms inspector in Iraq, down on paragraph 17 on page 2. I knew back then that they were failing us, just by that.

    The only people who have any credibility with me these days are Paul Krugman and Frank Rich.

    What's really pathetic is that the ridiculous section we routinely make fun of here on MT - "Thursday Styles" - has been added in just the last couple of years. I am so fricking glad they have their priorities straight.

    Sorry for the general rant, mamacita! I get really angry about this.

    RachelD

    by RachelD on Mon Oct 08, 2007 at 11:53:56 AM PDT

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    • oh, it's good to know (0 / 0)

      I'm not the only one in a righteous huff.  Thank you!  If it were up to me we would have let all subscriptions lapse except the New Yorker.

      I remember very early on, before the invasion, when Thomas Friedman wrote that although, as a Middle East expert, he KNEW the chances of anything good coming out of the invasion of Iraq were very small, he decided to go with "hope, rather than experience."  What a freakin' idiot.  

      I can't help but think the lot of them are on the take in some way.

      As for Blix, to hear Bush tell it the inspectors had been kicked out of Iraq and that's why he had to invade.  The mind boggles, as Blix and Iraq literally begged for additional time!  Obviously it was set up as a no-win -- how does one prove a negative? -- unless you happen to be a war profiteer.

      Mama to one son, born 12/93.

      by mamacita on Mon Oct 08, 2007 at 03:03:03 PM PDT

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