Comments on: Yellowcake or Yellow Journalism?

By: PeterUK

PeterUK — Sun, 18 Jul 2004 17:07:42 +0000

Syl,You are right.

It is the absolute certainty of the rightness of that bias that leads to the incompetence.That has long been the problem with the doctrinaire,”We are right”…”Why is it going wrong then?”…”Because it isn’t being done properly,we’ll get it right next time”…”Isn’t that what you said last time?”

It is like the ancient alchemists trying to turn lead into gold.

By: Syl

Syl — Sun, 18 Jul 2004 16:22:30 +0000

Bias in conjunction with incompetence is dangerous.

By: DennisThePeasant

DennisThePeasant — Sun, 18 Jul 2004 14:40:01 +0000

Peter-

You’re right. I’m off to get my gloves and weeding tool thingee.

Weeds…Ho!

By: PeterUK

PeterUK — Sat, 17 Jul 2004 23:44:16 +0000

Dennis,Pull yourself together man,this is no time to get softhearted,try a bit of weeding.

By: dougf

dougf — Sat, 17 Jul 2004 22:54:05 +0000

‘How many times are Western journalists going to fall for this stuff?’-Fresh Air

With respect,they are not ‘falling for’anything.Either they just don’t give a (blank) for ANYTHING other than a few colume inches in the propaganda outlet du jour or they are themselves dedicated warriors in the media propaganda campaign.

The days have long passed when anything the media reported could be accepted with just a grain of salt.Now increasingly the output of the MSM more closely resembles the efforts of Herr Goebbels.Truth is nice but NOT if it interferes with the goals of those who run the media systems.

By: DennisThePeasant

DennisThePeasant — Sat, 17 Jul 2004 21:59:53 +0000

Reading Mork’s brainfarts took back to the pre-Typekey days when joseph trolled the back alleys of this site.

Kinda miss the little fella.

By: Ben

Ben — Sat, 17 Jul 2004 21:30:08 +0000

(Sorry for the double clutch).

By: Ben

Ben — Sat, 17 Jul 2004 21:29:31 +0000

and his newspaper, as well as everyone else remotely connected with him or it.

By: Ben

Ben — Sat, 17 Jul 2004 21:28:52 +0000

and his newspaper, as well as everyone else remotely connected with it.

By: Ben

Ben — Sat, 17 Jul 2004 21:28:20 +0000

What I find incredible is the absolute irresponsibility of this story. A media outlet that publishes a story accusing a foreign leader of personally murdering people has an obligation to be absolutely sure about the veracity of what it writes. We don’t know if this story is true based upon the information published, but if it is untrue, I hope that a libel action is commenced immediately against the reporter.