Hi FaultLine; Re: "Does anyone else care to comment [Fisk should also be banned]?"
I don't generally read Fisk because he's a left wing nut, but I went back and read the article linked in. As far as I could tell, there was not a single lie in the whole thing. Most of the article was recounting the details of incidents that were already well reported in the press, and the rest was personal conversations with soldiers that are perfectly in keeping with what other reporters are saying. In fact, I turned on my f'ing radio this morning to hear that there were peace marches in front of the White House with a veteran's contingent singing anti-bush cadences, which they broadcast.
While Fisk has undoubtedly been dead wrong many times in the past, I don't see this particular article as being cause for alarm.
Are you considering banning news reports from Fox? They have reported an unimaginably large number of incorrect facts in the past 12 months. They're widely known as "faux news", LOL, but they are also widely printed here.
Because of this wide dispersion in truthfulness, I'm guessing that any problems you may have with Fisk are due to his opinions rather than his facts. How many times have we read articles attesting to how well the war on Terror has been going? And that our victory is undoubted by any patriotic American? Until the Rumsfeld memo leaked, of course, LOL.
By the way, the pattern where government officials repeatedly claim, publicly, that the war is going great, while those same officials express severe doubts in private, and the press also reports doubts, is another marker showing the similarity between this peacekeeping operation and Vietnam. What's different is that during Vietnam, the doubters didn't leak quite so efficiently.
-- Carl |
