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"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience." --C.S. Lewis

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:: Sunday, March 13, 2005 ::

What's wrong with big-time journalism? I think this is probably the most egregious--and habitual--sin of the likes of Rather, CNN and the New York Times:

"While an alert person could wade through opinions or even lies it is much harder to detect omissions..."

That's exactly right. For anyone who has ever had the unfortunate experience of having his or her house burglarized, this phenomenon becomes exceedingly apparent and frustrating because, beyond obvious violations such as the blank space on the wall where your 42" plasma screen used to be, you cannot tell investigators exactly what has been taken because you cannot instantly recall or locate everything that you own.

The press leverages this subtle agitprop device routinely and it's as transparent and obnoxious as it is dishonest. I witnessed such a deliberate act of ommission tonight on the 60 Minutes' piece on Hirsi Ali. Morley Safer proved to be an archtypal CBS cowardly hack,--in the vein of Rather's ass-licking interview with Saddam Hussein--apologist and shill for the ignorant luddites who assassinated Theo van Gogh. All that I can say is that watching the flailing CBS news machine implode is one of the grandest events of my entire lifetime.

Now it wouldn't suprise me if you missed this "report" because CBS is losing viewership at an astonishing pace--they've hit rock bottom and they're bangin' on the bedrock with their pick-axes. I've written my local affiliate (who I happen to like) swearing off the network in it's entirety until the whole CBS enterprise has melted into a steaming, black, waxy pool of smoldering slime like the Wicked Witch of the West. Dan Rather's retention in the 60 Minutes product can only hasten its long overdue and rapid disintigration. Oh joy.

Update: In rereading this post in the cold hard light of a Monday morning, I wouldn't change much but would add this final observation. It was a graphic contrast in character--Hirsi Ali, the unbelievably courageous black, female, ex-muslim dissident risking her life for exposing the dark side of Islam against a petty, tendentious, overpaid, washed-up, little tyrant. Thankfully, pretentious phonies like Rather and Safer are going the way of the rotary dial telephone. AMF.

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