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To: Poet who wrote (44495)	5/2/2004 1:01:26 PM
From: coug	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 89467

""Are you actually quoting Joseph Wilson, in saying he felt the outing of his wife, Valerie Plame as an undercover CIA agent, was "UnAmerican?" I didn't see the show, but I'd be surprised if Wilson used that word."" We will wait for the manuscript to clear that up.. I couldn't find it yet but I didn't spend much time on it. << neither you nor I are happy with Bush, his administration, or this country's involvement in Iraq>> I thought you supported our invasion. Weren't you were ready to go in after hearing all the pre-war hype? <<What you now appear to be saying is that citizens who live in rural areas are more trusting and thus easily-duped by the Bush administration. This opinion is foreign, and a bit reprehensible, to me. I'm neither an urban nor a rural American, and I'd like to think that clearheadedness and good intent is a function of learning and caring about the country than about where one lives in it. But if you feel otherwise, well, to each his own.>> Just an observation that they are more trusting in many cases and unfortunately that trust extends to government when it comes to foreign affairs.

To: Poet who wrote (44495)	5/3/2004 12:29:14 AM
From: stockman_scott	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 89467

<<...what saddens me is that, under this administration, tactics like that used against Wilson and Plame are becoming all too American. Hence the need for a new administration...>> Poet: many of us agree with you...I can NOT come up with any good reasons to re-hire Bush as CEO of this country...He has been a miserable failure in so many ways...I had the chance to hear Daniel Schorr speak last Friday...It was a sell-out crowd and he received a standing ovation at the end of his talk... Veteran newsman raps journalists NPR's Daniel Schorr also calls Iraq war 'totally unnecessary' Saturday, 1, 2004 By Olga Bonfiglio Special to the Gazette mlive.com Journalism's job is to keep people informed and to make sense of the world, said Daniel Schorr, 87-year-old news veteran and current senior news analyst for National Public Radio. But self-interest has replaced truth and the media is focused on the mundane, Schorr told 500 people -- twice the number expected -- who were on hand to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Kalamazoo County Trial Lawyers Association held at the Radisson Plaza Hotel on Friday. "I am very distressed about my profession," he said. Schorr said journalism has been reduced to a camera focused on a spokesperson with "enormous opportunities to manipulate the media." But what often gets left out is the public's need to know. "There is competition between the press and those who don't want a job done well," he said referring to the secrecy and public relations approach of government officials. Providing news on the cheap is another trend in the media. They "spend as little as [they] can and raise [their] ratings as much as [they] can. It's not journalism as I knew journalism!" Schorr said the country is building up to a "tremendous controversy" over the war in Iraq. "When it comes out in the end, as it is bound to come out, we will see that Bush took this country into a totally unnecessary war," he said. Schorr admitted that public reaction to Sept. 11 has frightened people to the extent that they disregard violations of civil rights and civil liberties. But he warned the audience to "go on fighting for those rights or we'll lose them." And for those who disagree with the Bush administration, he advised them to "take a sign out in public and let him know. That's the way it's always been done." Schorr has covered government controversies since the McCarthy hearings in 1953 as well as the superpower summits of the Cold War. He recently published a memoir, "Staying Tuned: A Life in Journalism," on his six decades as a journalist. Michigan State Supreme Court Justice Marilyn Kelly introduced Schorr as an "uncompromising purveyor of the truth."