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Originally posted by Displaced Flames fan@Dec 10 2004, 02:06 PM
Well, I'm not sure what how a newspaper chooses to report a story has to do with Americans being gullable....but....
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It's not a newspaper, it's the mainstream media. And I use the term "gullible" because the mock outrage of the Drudge Report has turned attention away from the real story (ill-equipped soldiers in a war that Rumsfeld heartily cheered on) and towards a piddling, inconsequential journalism ethics question at a Tennessee newspaper. Who buys this blatantly obvious flim-flam? Gullible people led by a gullible and apparently hopeless media.
No matter who wrote the question, it brings up several serious questions, none of which seem to be getting asked or answered.
American people should be very angry over two things (at least) now. The soldiers are ill-equipped and the news media is useless. If they aren't angry about this they are gullible.