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Originally posted by bilmore
No, you're not. You're excited by a chance for a quip, misaimed as it may be.
If you want to admit that our "news" organizations no longer simply present "news" at it appears, but instead decide which stories to present because they fit their own personal sense of values, then you should make a comment . . . well, much like you've just made. You've just equated the selection of what is "news" with serving an agenda. I would rather a "news" organization presented news.
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I see. So we expect so little of Bush and Rumsfeld et al. that it is equally newsworthy that Americans torture Iraqi prisoners as it was that Hussein committed atrocities. I, personally, was not surprised that Hussein committed atrocities -- I thought he was a bad man -- but I was surprised that our military was torturing people -- I didn't think they were bad men and women. So I thought the latter was "news" and the former wasn't.
Apparently it was "news" to you that Hussein was a bad man, but you expected our troops to commit war crimes. Funny that.
