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To: gamesmistress who wrote (99554)	2/9/2005 1:21:56 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 793698

Seems pretty straightforward to me. I'll buy that. My point, though, was about how diffuse the accusations have been. You'd think, for such a straightforward issue, if people had their thinking caps on, that more than twenty percent of the posts here on the subject would speak to slander. But instead there was a lot of stuff about anti-war, anti-military, anti-American attitudes, stuff about the attitude of the MSM in general and CNN in particular and Eason even more in particular. There was mention of sympathy for the enemy and collaboration and treason. And the ethics of the old media. KLP even suggested murder. And blame for 9/11. So I think it's reasonable for me to not be quite sure of what exactly the participants considered the focal point of the fuss. A lot of stuff was talked about and around, but nowhere was there a clear problem statement, a clear focus. Personally, my preference for why this matters is the journalistic lapse--a high-ranking journalist, in particular, making that kind of accusation without having his ducks lined up. My guess about why this matters to most of the people who have been engaging so vigorously but sloppily in it is that they just want to "get" Eason, which makes my question silly since it doesn't much matter to them what for.