You have laid yourself open to charges of rejecting all sources but the NY Times and the WaPo, by the way you reject entries on opinionjournal.com, even when they are repeating straight AP quotations. Just because you don't like the slant doesn't mean that Taranto spreads lies.
Well, fun and games, you've taken something that's remotely akin to what I said and turned it into something much worse.
Good morning to you, Nadine. Looks to me as if you are making two charges in your usual relaxed conversational tone.
1. That I accept only articles published in the NYTimes and Washington Post. Wrong and you know it.
Just check back through my posts. Let's see, off the top of the head, what and where have I posted from besides those places. Well, The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, The Atlantic Monthly, Robert Novak's columns, Al Hunt's columns in the WSJ, WSJ articles, LATimes articles, Christian Science Monitor, and more. Just can't pull them up right now.
2. Rejecting entries on opinionjournal. And something about someone named Taranto. Don't recognize either. Oh, yes, now I do, at least about the former. Is opinionjournal a website for the editorial page of the WSJ? If that's the one, then I read the stuff you post from there but it more than fulfills my opinion of the WSJ editorial page. Not only does it grab its political views from somewhere to the right of the center of the republican party, but some of them, don't know about all, play more than a little fast and loose with the data. That charge could use some substantion but I don't plan to offer it. Just a view I have built up reading both the editorial page of the Journal and that website.
As for Taranto, you'll have to help me there. And, as for the AP quotations, I did not dismiss them. I said I had no opinion about their credibility but that the fact they were used by the WSJ editorial page staff did not enhance their credibility for me.
We then had a very good conversation, LLLefty, Paul Kern, and I (along with some others) about the relative credibility of the various newswires in which the AP looks to be highly professional. I learned something there. How about you? |
