Re: Gullible Journalists

2003-02-04 Thread Declan McCullagh
On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 09:59:58AM -0800, Michael Motyka wrote: > The net effect is that by and large journalists have become a > cheerleading squad when what is needed is a vigorous and independent > critical facility. That is if we are to retain some degree of the > of, by and for philosophy. May

Re: Gullible Journalists

2003-02-04 Thread Michael Motyka
"Tyler Durden" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote : > John Kelsey wrote... > > "For some reason I've never been able to fathom, many journalists seem to be > remarkably gullable, when they're told something from the right kind of > source, especially a government agency or other official source." > The

Re: Gullible Journalists

2003-02-04 Thread Kevin S. Van Horn
Tyler Durden wrote: "For some reason I've never been able to fathom, many journalists seem to be remarkably gullable, when they're told something from the right kind of source, especially a government agency or other official source." Chomsky (dig around on http://www.zmag.org/weluser.htm) and

Re: Gullible Journalists

2003-02-03 Thread Declan McCullagh
On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 09:31:35AM -0500, Tyler Durden wrote: > I'm exagerating for effect here of course...there's possibly not as much > conscious decision making, and supposedly this kind of list-making happens > for much quieter, "insider" stuff (not smart bomb footage). But clearly, > there

Gullible Journalists

2003-02-03 Thread Tyler Durden
John Kelsey wrote... "For some reason I've never been able to fathom, many journalists seem to be remarkably gullable, when they're told something from the right kind of source, especially a government agency or other official source." Chomsky (dig around on http://www.zmag.org/weluser.htm) and