(np) big O, say it isn't so...

[Henry M]

Fair and balanced, just like Democracy Now.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy_Scahill

AsB4,
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Henry Mu
http://astore.amazon.com/tdcoccamsaxe-20


On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 11:05 AM, <kelber at mindspring.com> wrote:

> Jeremy Scahill is a highly respected investigative journalist, who has
> testified before Congress and appeared in interviews on every major network
> (including frequent appearances on the Rachel Maddow show, on the very
> pro-Obama MSNBC.  He's what every journalist should aspire to be: brave,
> intelligent and truth-seeking.
>
> Laura
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Henry M **
> Sent: Mar 26, 2012 9:18 AM
> To: Pynchon Liste **
> Subject: Re: (np) big O, say it isn't so...
>
> Why does one choose to believe Democracy Now and Al Jazeera more than the
> New York Times, while someone else chooses Fox "News" over the MSNBC?  Who
> is Jeremy Scahill?  The only thing that Wikileaks provided was a cable from
> Saleh to Petraeus.  Do you believe everything that Saleh says?  Then why do
> believe what Saleh says in a cable?
>
> The mainstream American press isn't exactly uncritical of Obama and the
> wars.  What is the current explanation (that does not hammer Occam's Razor
> into paranoid oblivion) for why they don't have this story?
>
> AsB4,
> ٩(●̮̮̃•̃)۶
> Henry Mu
> http://astore.amazon.com/tdcoccamsaxe-20
>
>
> On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 8:40 AM, Michael Bailey <
> michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>  Henry M wrote:
>> > Ooo, wikileaks and prism magazine!  Now I can be sure of the truth!
>>
>>
>> wikileaks is pretty credible, isn't it?   I mean, the objections on
>> record are for its revelations being problematic for diplomacy, not
>> inaccurate.
>>
>> prism magazine quoted Obama's own record of the conversation.
>>
>> http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2011/02/03/readout-presidents-call-president-saleh-yemen
>>
>> I dunno, seems pretty strong to me.  My president, right or wrong?
>>
>> I suppose we should dismiss any news from al-Jazeera too?
>>
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