The 9/11 Story That Got Away

[Paul Mackin]

On May 19, 2006, at 9:22 AM, Otto wrote:

> Well, they have no journalists embedded but still everything they'd  
> said about the Iraq-war turned out to have more truth in it than  
> everything the Pentagon ever said or the New York Times wrote.

True,  On occasion the Alternet approach works beautifully.

In the case of iraq, nothing the suspicious imagination could  
conceive of was too outlandish to be true.

The Times functions better in situations less black and white.

Anyway, my apologies to online journalism for maligning it.

P.

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> Paul Mackin wrote:
>> Maybe I just happen to have a mild revulsion for online  
>> journalism. Perhaps I'm being too harsh. A lot of fairly smart  
>> people engage in it. But they have no incentive to weigh their  
>> words judiciously. They have nothing but their time invested and  
>> maybe once every decade they will happen upon something of some  
>> value.  Who  knows?
>>
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