Re: The U.S. War on Journalists

"La N" <nilita2004NOSPAM@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>"Eugene Griessel" <eugene@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> "La N" <nilita2004NOSPAM@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>>"Eugene Griessel" <eugene@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>>> "David Morgan \(MAMS\)" <findme@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>>>>"Eugene Griessel" <eugene@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>>>>
>>>>>> All journalists should be shot on sight.  The are the root weevils
of
>>>>>> society and should be eradicated without question.
>>>>>
>>>>>Asinine.  Without them, it would have taken much less time for
America
>>>>>to have become the dictatorship it is today.
>>>>
>>>> That has little to do with journalists and more to do with the
>>>> brainwashed populace.
>>>
>>>Indeed.
>>>
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>           -  I usually post only from Sci.Military.Naval  -
>>>>>
>>>>>That might explain having something to fear from the press perhaps...
>>>>>(?)
>>>>
>>>> Who fears the idiots?
>>>>
>>>
>>>Hey, Eugene.  I still pick up a couple of bucks now and then writing
press
>>>releases.  Does that mean you don't lurv me anymore? ...;(
>>
>> Course I do.
>>
>> I have been a stringer for the local community rag and editor of a
>> couple of club mags in my time.  But just a few years in therapy got
>> me to a state where I could go out on the street without a paper bag
>> over my head .....
>>
>> No, what I object to are those little unconcerned, disinterested
>> people who are not out to inform people but to sell their media with
>> as much sensationalism as they can invent.  If it means more
>> disinformation than information they do not care.
>>
>
>Here's a hint to the gentle readership:  Take what *anyone* - including
me - 
>writes with a grain of salt and not as G*d's truth.  And, oh, btw, I
would 
>say the same about politicos - their words come from the same salt
shaker. 
>Check various sources before you make up your mind.
>
>However, of course, it's human nature to be attracted to the op-ed piece
or 
>big mouth in the capitol who says/writes what you want to believe.

It is a sad state, that at this juncture in human civilisation when
cynicism is so sorely needed, it appears that the broad mass are ever
more gullible.  It seems PT Barnum's wildest nightmares did not match
up to the number of suckers now alive.


Eugene L Griessel

   Manubay's Laws for programmers:
   If a modification of an existing program works,
   it is not what the customer wants.
   Customers never know what they really want,
   but they know for certain what they don't want.

          -  I usually post only from Sci.Military.Naval  -