The Voice Of Centcom
Someone named Russell Smith is very upset with CNN. Not for its supposed anti-war slant – otherwise I probably wouldn’t be the one posting this link – but quite the reverse.
This recalls an argument we had a while back about the institutional biases of the major news providers; I still think CNN is in a no-win situation, and this article points up some of the reasons why. A doomed attempt at objectivity – or, even more modestly, an attempt at sobriety – can always be interpreted as providing tacit support for the other side – whichever side that happens to be.
This guy happens to be a fruit loop, but that’s part of the fun. (And I think some of the criticism of CNN for not being gung-ho enough has also been fairly screwy.)
For a much funnier riposte to Mr Smith than I can come up with, here is a post to the Thomas Pynchon discussion list, from whence this tragic story came. (The author of the linked post is, given such material, reliably golden and thoroughly worth reading.)
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