Friday, June 24th 2005
Down on the Chron
Gray Brechin whines to the Berkeley Daily Planet because the SF Chronicle is apparently a right-wing mouthpiece:
I send the letter below to the Daily Planet because although the San Francisco Chronicle once published about half my letters, it has published none since last October and will not respond to my query about whether it maintains a blacklist, which increasingly appears to be the case.
Adding:
The lack of coverage of these extremely important documents [Downing Street Memo] and of that riveting hearing is one of the greatest indictments of U.S. journalism, even as the Republican assassination of Dan Rather, Newsweek, and many others shows that there is no safety for the press in cooperation with the present regime.
I’d publish the remainder of his letter here, but if it’s not good enough for the Chron then it’s not good enough for us either. Besides, with all this talk about “blacklists” and “assassinations,” Brechin would be better served by Christopher Hitchens recent piece on the Memo, “Conspiracy Theories.”
I would tend to not bother defending the random delusionals that frequent the Berkeley Daily Planet Letters-to-the-Editor section, but it’s not a conspiracy theory to suggest that Dan Rather and Newsweek were targeted primarily by Republicans.
Comment by Donald — 6/24/2005 @ 3:50 pm
Yeah, but it wasn’t a grand Republican plot to oust a strategic hiderance, as is implied by the word “assassination.”
Comment by B.A.D. — 6/24/2005 @ 4:15 pm
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Yeah, but it wasn’t a grand Republican plot to oust a strategic hiderance, as is implied by the word “assassination.”
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It’s called hyperbole. Look it up in the dictionary. You’ve been known to engage in it yourself, you know.
Comment by jonp — 6/24/2005 @ 6:35 pm
Yes, I assumed it was hyperbole. I assumed he wasn’t insisting that Republicans killed Dan Rather and Newsweek. Instead, I assumed he meant what I wrote: Republicans plotted to harm Rather and Newsweek because they were in the way, even though Rather and Newsweek were submitting to the Republican administration.
Comment by B.A.D. — 6/24/2005 @ 8:11 pm
Down on the Qu’ran!
Comment by Kevin — 6/26/2005 @ 3:13 pm