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  • Reply to: Journalists Jailed   16 years 6 months ago

    I find it interesting that some people I intuitively just CAN NOT STAND turn out to be corrupt. I have family in the part of the world so I had business there a few years ago. Every time that man came on the news something just turned my stomach. Well, I am sure that is not his only secret. I am sure he has every reason to be paranoid, but that still doesn't give him a right to subvert the constitution. Karma! The one thing the powers that be CAN'T hide from forever!

  • Reply to: Journalists Jailed   16 years 6 months ago

    In the face of a public backlash against his office's prosecution, Maricopa County attorney Andrew Thomas has [http://blogs.phoenixnewtimes.com/bastard/2007/10/in_your_face_furious_public_ba.php dropped the case] against the New Times and fired its prosecutor.

  • Reply to: Shared Values Revisited   16 years 6 months ago
    In fact, part of the reason that the Shared Values videos were not easy to find online is that they were intended as propaganda for foreign audiences and were not supposed to be used to influence domestic public opinion. In the end, however, propaganda is such a one-way form of communication that the propagandists are really talking to themselves. They lose the ability to really listen to their audience, and as a result they don't know what to say to them either.
  • Reply to: Shared Values Revisited   16 years 6 months ago
    Sheldon, I'm sure it was you who told us that the target of war-time propaganda is usually the folks back home. Could that also be true in this case? If so, then the researchers were surveying the wrong people. The targets may have been American academics, op-ed writers and bloggers.
  • Reply to: An Ethical Look at Fake News   16 years 6 months ago
    I have posted some of Mr. Dunklee's key points to remind many who would share information (and especially in our major media) what they should think through before commiting to air what they have been sent, no matter how attractive and/or innocuous. Junkk.com - not all that's green can be viewed in black or white

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