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To: Lane3 who wrote (33500)	3/8/2004 5:57:07 PM
From: Sully-	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793848

"If you're a reporter who is reporting from the scene of a train derailment," I thought you were some kind of expert on false dichotomies. If you are interviewing folks in 2004 about the appropriateness of Bush using the events of 9/11/01 in his campaign, you can easily determine whether they have affiliations that have serious bearing on their current remarks. This is not anything like reporting live from a disaster scene. Not even remotely similar. Heck, folks on SI have frequently done their own searches & within minutes found numerous instances of an ideological agenda based on affiliations with left or right wing groups. Journalists have considerably more resources at their disposal. This is not something that would be necessarily time consuming, yet it would be something a good journalist should strive to do; give their readers sufficient background so they may make their own informed conclusions. As you know, this type of journalism is not thriving today. Journalists are more OP/ED oriented than ever when they are allegedly delivering hard news. Unfortunately they are also mostly liberals, so the slant & bias is obviously pro-liberal & anti-conservative. That is why we didn't see any journalists from any of the the major media outlets mention the 9/11 families connections to left wing groups or the firefighters union's connection to Kerry. They were easy to find with a minimal search of a few minutes.