Old Weird Ward
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Monday, May 02, 2005
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One of the many reasons that I don't trust what's now called the "Main Stream Media" actually dates 'way back to 1966, when Time Magazine did a hatchet job on some of the students at my high school. And no, I wasn't one of the hatchetees.
Anyway, thanks to the Miracle of Blogsterdom, I now know that one of the formerly Most Respected News Papers in the US has been caught, in public, slanting the news. See Paterrico's expose HERE. His research and logic is most persuasive.
The L.A. Times story is actually an edited version of a Reuters story that appeared on the news service yesterday afternoon. The Reuters story reported that investigators using satellite footage of the incident have conclusively determined that the car was speeding, just as the U.S. has always maintained. On page two of the story, the Reuters news service reported:
CBS news has reported that a U.S. satellite had filmed the shooting and that it had been
established the car carrying Calipari was traveling at more than 60 mph per hour [sic] as it
approached the U.S. checkpoint in Baghdad.
Thus, the Reuters story reported that there is definitive proof that the car was speeding towards the checkpoint – critical information that tends to justify U.S. soldiers’ decision to fire on the car. But in the version appearing in the L.A. Times, editors cut out the passage reporting that proof.
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Evidently, the NY Times did the same thing.
This is distortion, not falsification. And it is what the MSM has been getting away with for a long, long time.
Oh, yeah. The reference to 1966? I was a student at Palisades High School. I knew most of the people that Time Magazine did the hatchet job on. There was just enough truth to be believable, and enough distortion to make any editor of National Enquirer proud.
I repeat 3 times: Don't Trust The MSM. They play fast and loose with the facts.
BTW, our local "big city newspaper", the Georgia Times-Union (produced in Jacksonville as the Florida Times-Union) hasn't said "boo" recently about the unfolding Washington State voting scandal, wherein rampant voter fraud in King County threw the "election" of the Governor to Christene Gregoire. Jesse Jackson, where are you?
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