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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (76198)	10/10/2004 1:04:23 AM
From: LindyBill	Respond to of 793804

Friedman is just mailing it in. He is reduced to Liberal whining since he came back. I didn't bother to post his last column.

To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (76198)	10/10/2004 1:29:55 AM
From: LindyBill	Respond to of 793804

Memo to Mr. Okrent, in response to your latest NYT column on media bias and performance By Beldar on Politics TO: Daniel Okrent, Public Editor of the New York Times FROM: William J. Dyer (a/k/a Beldar) RE: Your latest column Mr. Okrent, you clearly are a bright and articulate man, and one who's possibly in a job that no single human being could perform adequately. I think you understand and aspire to the concept of fairness in journalism. And so I am genuinely sad — for you, for what used to be America's "newspaper of record," and for the public — that you could write a column like the one that appears in Sunday's NYT entitled "How Would Jackson Pollock Cover This Campaign?" How can a man with a keen enough sense of irony to write this sentence — A definition of irony: what an ombudsman or public editor must appreciate to survive this campaign. — then blithely follow it only a few paragraphs later with this one? Those readers who long for the days of absolutely untinted, nothing-but-the-facts newspapering ought to have an Associated Press ticker installed on the breakfast table. The Associated Press?!? Oh, Mr. Okrent, that is indeed laugh-out-loud funny! How very badly you miss the point.

To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (76198)	10/10/2004 12:55:25 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793804

>>Friedman is just mailing it in. I don't read the Israeli news sources so don't know whether Friedman is just saying what everybody else says, but this particular column is a collection of observations that nobody in the US is making yet. I was not aware - not that I was trying to find the information out - that the suicide bombers in Iraq are Sunnis. Are they also Wahabbis? Or ordinary Sunnis? Do we even know who they are? Are they associated with Zarqawi? Or Ba'athists? It would be useful to know. The fact that they are Sunnis rules out Iranian involvement, and given that our next target appears to be Iran, these facts may be inconvenient. But facts really should not be inconvenient.