Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:45:48 PST From: mojavegnospamveg.iwvisp.com (Everett M. Greene) Subject: Re: Well, the convertible is on Ebay now.
Bob <uctraingnospamanet.com> writes: > Dave Hinz <DaveHinznospamcop.net> wrote: > > >It's a huge difference, to the point where the press reporting it as > >Everett understands is well over the line of "subtly wrong" into > >"lying". > > WHenever I'm familiar with the substance of a story, I find that the > newspaper (and worse TV/Radio News) never always reports the story > incorrectly. Usually seriously incorrectly. Not only do they get facts > wrong, they then select quotes and facts that just present the story > incorrectly. This seems to be more due to ignorance, not intent. They > just don't have reporters with a clue about the subject area. > > When they do have someone with knowledge reporting the story, the > reporter invariably intentionally selects facts and quotes to distort > the story for better news appeal and/or their own political agenda. > > But, since few people pay any attention to the news media and even > fewer actually read background material or do any research, it > probably doesn't matter. Most get their information and make voting > decisions based on the Urban fairly tale network. We're splitting hairs here. While it's true that the Supreme Court didn't say it was OK for governments to take property solely for economic/tax gain, they kicked the issue back to the State(s) which had already decided that it was OK. Or, to use a double-negative, the Supremes decided to not rule that it's not OK.