bryant69
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Wed Oct-15-03 10:47 AM
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Edited on Wed Oct-15-03 10:48 AM by bryant69
A couple of things to consider--the Press is not conclusively on either side. I mean some reporters lean left and many editors lean right, but other than ideologically driven papers (like the Washington Times), in theory they are trying to get things right. So if they put out a story that seems questionable--something like "Homeless think that too much fuss is made over them" than look over the sources, figure out whether there's any validity to the claim. Reporters are just as lazy as anybody else, adn are apt to take a single quote or pair of quotes or statistic and make a story out of it.
This requires a bit more work than to simply say "Well this story conflicts with what I already think so it must be wrong." But it is generally worthwhile, I think.
ANd as for your final question, I firmly believe that we are not committed to a civil war 2 or a bushevick empire--but we should all commit ourselves to working to get President Bush out of the White House and back in Crawford (or someplace else, depending).
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