Friday, November 3, 2006
p.s.
Can you say Watergate? Wasn't that the seminal moment when we learned the important lesson that covering-up is worse than the problem? That's what I thought but apparently I was wrong. The Kerry folks don't seem to know as indicated by their apology that really says the problem was people misunderstood. And the New York Times doesn't as indicated by their printed wrong text and mistaken information in the first place and their correction (it's the third one down) in the second. It's hard not to think the Times wrote their apologia deliberately given the rest of the article and now ha ha they have to twist and turn to get out of it without sounding as deliberately misinformational as they were. Don't they see that it would always be simpler to print things as actually said and then not have to go through backtracking? By the way, like Laura, I noticed that the Times put their coverage way inside on page A15 and yet they couldn't bring themselves to show the witty rejoinder banner by the soldiers even though it was all that far into the paper. When I was growing up, there was plenty of verbalized and acted-out classism but at this rate, if we don't keep our eyes on reality even if we decide to paint it with our own colors, and if we don't throw in a sense of humor, the political morass is going to swallow us whole pretty soon.
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