idk, i havent ever had a problem with sam, sure he says some shit, everyone does.
id miss ya sammy On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 10:58 AM, Jerry Barnes <critic...@gmail.com> wrote: > > "Don't get me started on the anti-vax crowd. 4 kids are now out of my kid's > school because they're sick with whooping cough - parents refused to > vaccinate." > > There you go again. Shifting the discussion (btw - whooping cough wasn't a > big deal until the US stopped enforcing immigration - which is another > potential pulitzer prize winning story). > > Anyway, the show about vaccinations removed a respected doctor who took the > middle road. The show was turned into "Vaccine War" (the actual name): > > You had a point to prove and removed material from your show which made the > narrative balanced. Distraught, confused moms against important, > well-spoken calm doctors was your narrative with a deep sure voice to, > literally, narrate the entire artifice. > > > Here's another quote from the doctor: > > I trusted you by giving you two or three hours of my time for an interview > and multiple background discussions. I expressed my heartfelt reservations > about both vaccines and the polarizing of this issue into pro-vaccine and > anti-vaccine camps. I told you that there was at least a third > camp. There are many doctors and even more parents who would like a more > judicious approach to immunization. Give vaccines later, slower and with an > individualized approach as we do in every other area of medicine. > > What did you create instead? > > The Vaccine War. > > A war. Not a discussion or a disagreement over facts and opinions, but a > war. This show was unintelligent, dangerous and completely lacking in the > balance that you promised meand your viewerswhen you produced and > advertised this piece of biased unscientific journalism. Tabloid > journalism I believe is the epithet often used. Even a good tabloid > journalist could see through the screed youve presented. > > > > The vaccine war isn't of interest in this discussion (hence the lack of > comment aside from yours about the formerly almost eradicated in the > US whooping cough). It would make a good thread on its own though. What > the point is here is the lack of integrity of Front Line and the media in > general. > > It shouldn't be a surprise to anyone. > > > J > > - > > I've always thought the right wing was the ones who were inflexible and > intolerant, and now I'm coming to realize that the orthodoxy at NPR, if > it's representing the Left, is just unbelievable - > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:346895 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
