On Fri, 11 Apr 2003, James A. Donald wrote:
Instead, Fisk conspicuously fails to mention that the minders are controlling the newsmen in a way that prevents them from
You mean, something similar to say, placing them in military units chosen by minders in Washington, and saying "that's what you get" when non-"embedded" reporters die*.
Fisk omits critical facts, and confidently claims to know what he was not permitted to know.
I'd love an example to discuss.
The one is a lie of omission, the other a lie of commission. Fisk conceals from his readers the fact that it is impossible to check on the lies of a totalitarian state, and denies barefaced the fact that promises to allow such checking are always lies.
So your assertion is that reporting what a government body is saying is wrong, and failing to say that they may be saying things that may be propoganda is wrong. Are you similarly pissed at Fox? Please share with the group. -j *I'm not saying the US intentionally killed reporters. I don't know if that is an accurate analysis or not. It is a war, and shit happens. -- Jamie Lawrence jal@jal.org "And don't tell me there isn't one bit of difference between null and space, because that's exactly how much difference there is." - Larry Wall