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So CIA basically tossed some blood, with their "balanced report" and caused sharks to swarm in. And news worry why people don't trust them. I loved this quote:
by Ygg2 12y ago
So CIA basically tossed some blood, with their "balanced report" and caused sharks to swarm in. And news worry why people don't trust them.
I loved this quote:
“And then I wrote some stories that made me realize how
sadly misplaced my bliss had been. The reason I’d
enjoyed such smooth sailing for so long hadn’t been, as
I’d assumed, because I was careful and diligent and
good at my job,” Webb wrote. “The truth was that, in
all those years, I hadn’t written anything important
enough to suppress.”
It seems whenever someone does a moral thing in spite of society, he is often persecuted for it. From informants revealing secrets of bad government deals, to leakers, they all seem to be targets.
And it's interesting who often funds the detractors.
- arjie 12y agoIt's often useful to remember that the New York Times had Judith Miller and the Los Angeles Times and Newsweek had Joyce Haber. PG spoke about The Submarine - a strategically placed news article. He paid under seventeen thousand. The problem is the opposite of what they worry about. We all trust news too much. We'll read something in a field we're familiar with, say "what utter nonsense!" and turn the page and read something about a topic we're unfamiliar with. I suppose you don't have to publish a retraction if you aren't caught.