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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (30428)	5/23/2002 10:34:26 AM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Nadine, Perhaps I should say again that I'm not criticizing either your posting the piece or the comments you made about it. Rather the piece. I find it ironic that Bennett, Kirkpatrick, and whomsoeve make their comments, absent any serious discussion of the settlements issue and call it "fair and balanced" in roughly the same time frame as the campaign against the LATimes, NYTimes, CNN, etc. is brought to public notice in the NYTimes today. There is more than a little hypocrisy in this crew, condemning these news outlets for including news from both sides while they (Bennett, Kirkpatrick, et al) make certain to include only their own slant. I don't think the issue any longer is one of politics. That is, I don't think it's the B&K crew saying we are political, you are political, let's all admit it and go about our business. Rather, I've now concluded it's ideological. The B&K crew think it is all ideological in the worst sense of that word. So they cannot see that some news outlets are trying to get the story right, all sides, while, admittedly, whatever story they select, write, print, has frames, etc. Sometimes I think the boycott is an attempt to dumb down all newspapers to the level of the NYPost and the Washington Times. Comments?