Denial Lessons from the Pros
A classic Monday, too busy to get to the vital business of screening the nasty chunks, offal, and "white fish" out of the overall morass of corporate mainstream reporting in hopes of finding some actual useful "news." Regrettable metaphorical repertoire is unavoidable result of weekend chore involving clearing cedar roots out of a septic tank that is currently forming scars on my memory.
Fortunately there are others doing the nasty job with the press, preferable only from the standpoint of odor to my weekend labors. I hope they had rubber gloves and Level D at least on hand.
Here, par example, the inimitable Ms. Huffington:
New York Times Falls off Wagon
It's hard to believe, but the New York Times is back on Chalabi. Not unlike Courtney Love, the paper of record swears it's going to go straight, stop using, be responsible, really change this time, and then it happens again. For whatever reason, the paper falls off the wagon.
It's an addiction. And addicts embarrass themselves again and again. And you feel stupid for ever having given them the benefit of the doubt.
And they try to hide it. Just look at today's above-the-fold, front-page story on Iraq's constitution. It's headlined "Leaders in Iraq Report Progress on Constitution."
Who are those "leaders"? Once again, Ahmad Chalabi and an American official speaking "on condition of anonymity." And Chalabi is simply identified as "the deputy prime minister."
The deputy prime minister? That's it? That's like doing a piece on the energy bill and citing one of your main sources as "Ken Lay, a prominent Houston businessman."
They could at least have added a sentence from their own newspaper of May 26, 2004: "[Chalabi] became a favorite of hard-liners within the Bush administration and a paid broker of information from Iraqi exiles, until his payments were cut off."
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Read the piece. It's well done. For that matter, the comments have spunk of their own. Read enough and you might make Monday worthwhile!
Fortunately there are others doing the nasty job with the press, preferable only from the standpoint of odor to my weekend labors. I hope they had rubber gloves and Level D at least on hand.
Here, par example, the inimitable Ms. Huffington:
New York Times Falls off Wagon
It's hard to believe, but the New York Times is back on Chalabi. Not unlike Courtney Love, the paper of record swears it's going to go straight, stop using, be responsible, really change this time, and then it happens again. For whatever reason, the paper falls off the wagon.
It's an addiction. And addicts embarrass themselves again and again. And you feel stupid for ever having given them the benefit of the doubt.
And they try to hide it. Just look at today's above-the-fold, front-page story on Iraq's constitution. It's headlined "Leaders in Iraq Report Progress on Constitution."
Who are those "leaders"? Once again, Ahmad Chalabi and an American official speaking "on condition of anonymity." And Chalabi is simply identified as "the deputy prime minister."
The deputy prime minister? That's it? That's like doing a piece on the energy bill and citing one of your main sources as "Ken Lay, a prominent Houston businessman."
They could at least have added a sentence from their own newspaper of May 26, 2004: "[Chalabi] became a favorite of hard-liners within the Bush administration and a paid broker of information from Iraqi exiles, until his payments were cut off."
[clip]
Read the piece. It's well done. For that matter, the comments have spunk of their own. Read enough and you might make Monday worthwhile!
posted by Sir Gumbo at 10:12 PM
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