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The public editor of New York Times today set off a firestorm in the blogosphere for asking a ridiculous question about whether the paper should become a "truth vigilante" in producing news for its vaunted pages. Thousands of comments have poured into the paper's website, the vast majority of which could be summed up with a single word: Duh.

As a journalism school grad and the husband of a J-school professor, I followed the discussion with much interest and occasional amusement, until I came across a diary at Daily Kos tonight which had me rolling on the floor. Well, not literally rolling on the floor, more like chuckling.

If you're in the mood for some serious snark, take a look, and them come back so I can wrap up this post for you.

As Ed Cone is fond of saying, it's almost never a good thing when North Carolina makes national headlines.

Despite his being wanted for a shooting in North Carolina, the man accused of killing a police officer in Brooklyn on Monday was twice released from jail in New York this fall because the authorities in North Carolina declined to have him extradited.

Crossposted from Sustainable Futures

The composition of this picture in the New York Times is extraordinary. A combination Last Temptation, Last Supper, Moses on the Mountain, and Beatles album all rolled into one.

I've always been a supporter of Israel. Today I believe their government's continued expansion could signal the death of their nation. If I lived in the shadow of their guns, I'm quite certain I would become a terrorist.

The New York Times ran a comic strip today featuring David Roat, Drinking Liberally, Leni Sitnick, Gordon you-know-who, the Tastee Diner - all here in Ashevegas. A lot of us met Campbell, the illustrator, last week. Thanks for the shoutout, Cam.

Click here for the rest.

Those of us who served in 'Nam, or really any insurgent conflict, and anybody else who were paying attention understand the Government Propaganda used to make things look rosier than the reality on the ground.

One of the most blatant is "The Body Count". Used to show success, in 'enemy kills', and used to show success in the citizens feelings security because of actions by an occupying force or a puppet government.

Real Honesty is not a popular tool of propaganda!

Newsweek and the New York Times are carrying articles about the returning Iraqi's to Baghdad, looking deeper into the reasons why, reasons anyone paying real attention already understand.

According to the New York Times, Americans are increasingly identifying with progressive values. Americans ages 17 to 29 are drifting away from Republican hatred of immigrants and gays, and toward the Democratic vision of health care and economic opportunity for all.

Read the article here.

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Oh that tricky Bush administration. They say clean air when they mean more pollution. They say No Child Left Behind when they mean No Upperclass Child Left Behind. They call it a Patriot Act, when it is in fact the KGB Surveillance for Dummies Act.

Now, they've gone and done it again. They've said they wanted to reform Medicaid so that those sneaky /brown/ people would quit "stealing" YOUR health care. They're the enemy you know, those /brown/ people, with their jobs and their families and their kids and their churches. But, what they really meant to say was that those sneaky /poor/ people were stealing THEIR tax breaks by using Medicaid.

That just won't do in the modern Republican Aristocracy. So, off with their benefits!!!

crossposted at Kos.

man, what kind of body english is this?

The NY Times says...

Deadliest Bomb in Iraq Is Made by Iran, U.S. Says
by (get this) link to article... for what it is worth
Michael R. Gordon
Yes, the same one who worked with Judith Miller to spread propaganda about Iraq in 2002 and 2003. The same "reporter" who released the story about the dreaded Aluminum Tubes and the re-starting of the late Saddam Hussein's WMD program.

And the Times goes with this guy? Seriously, this is nutty. Flip back through this guys headlines, here... they read like White House wet dream press releases.