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Nixon bombed more people to death in Laos and Cambodia than the U.S. Army lost in all of World War II. Nixon connived to have Kent State students attacked and
by imgabe 6y ago
Nixon bombed more people to death in Laos and Cambodia than the U.S. Army lost in all of World War II.
Nixon connived to have Kent State students attacked and slain by the National Guard.
These are both facts that can easily be reported and are more than damning enough on their own without editorializing.
The editorializing actually makes the case weaker. It does a good job of riling up people who already agree with you, but to everyone else it just looks like you're biased and attacking someone because of a personal grudge.
- jariel 6y agoYou've contradicted yourself in your own comment though. First - Nixon inherited a war that others started, and put in place a strategy to end it, which he did. Second - Your statement "killed more people in Laos and Cambodia than the US Army lost in WW2" is technical factual, but also kind of nonsense. It's pointless to compare civilian casualties in one war, with Army casualties in another. Eisenhower definitely killed more civilians that Nixon - does that make him worse? See how your selective facts are actually a form of editorializing? Journalism is actually kind of hard, but yes, there is too much partisan news. Again this is our fault - if we clicked on straight news, and that's where the eyeballs went, that's where the money would go.
- imgabe 6y agoFair point, and good journalism is hard. It takes a lot of knowledge and skill to put things into the appropriate context. As much as I like Hunter S Thompson's writing, I don't think the answer is to throw all that out the window and just rant about your own personal viewpoints.