Gullible Journalists
Kevin S. Van Horn
kvanhorn at ksvanhorn.com
Mon Feb 3 15:30:45 PST 2003
Tyler Durden wrote:
> "For some reason I've never been able to fathom, many journalists seem
> to be remarkably gullable, when they're told something from the right
> kind of source, especially a government agency or other official source."
>
> Chomsky (dig around on http://www.zmag.org/weluser.htm) and others
> have commented on this quite a bit.
If you want to hear it from the horse's mouth, I suggest you read some
of Vin Suprynowicz's columns, or his book, _Send In The Waco Killers_.
He's been a working journalist for decades, and so can describe
first-hand how this process of co-opting journalists works.
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