Reply #46: I can't speak to the previous posters assertions [View All]

[salin]

and I have more than once almost asked about this source on the board (but won't when it is being actively used to avoid the assertion that one is trying to taint an argument), but I will say - for whatever my opinion is (or isn't) worth, that I have always found Counterpunch a bit hyperbolic and not always so well sourced. If I find an item of interest there - I look for other sources before passing it along (I am fairly particular before I pass info on. For example am more likely to pass Parry's ConsortiumNews pieces which tend to be very well documented/sourced.) I can't say that the site is left or right - it strikes me, when I have read it, as almost chaotic - or contrarian (as in coming from different, almost random seeming directions). But it really could just be me - as I said I have often wondered about other folks impessions of it as a source. I can't put my finger on it - but to me something strikes me as a bit off. But I haven't followed and read it very closely, and haven't gone digging around to verify or dispell my sense/read of it.