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06-28-2006, 02:16 AM
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New York Times Hypocrits
The NY Times doesn't think the government should keep any secrets. I wonder if the NY Times thinks this rule applies to them? If they don't want any secrets then they should publish a list of their sources on the front page of tomorrow's issue.
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06-28-2006, 03:14 AM
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Re: New York Times Hypocrits
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The NY Times doesn't think the government should keep any secrets. I wonder if the NY Times thinks this rule applies to them? If they don't want any secrets then they should publish a list of their sources on the front page of tomorrow's issue. [/ QUOTE ] The NYT does not deny that the govt can have secrets. It just stands by its right to publish whatever it finds out about. THe two are not the same. The govt cannot and must not be able to gag a private news enterprise.
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06-28-2006, 01:34 PM
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Re: New York Times Hypocrits
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The NY Times doesn't think the government should keep any secrets. I wonder if the NY Times thinks this rule applies to them? If they don't want any secrets then they should publish a list of their sources on the front page of tomorrow's issue. [/ QUOTE ] Seems you don't understand the value of a free press.
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06-28-2006, 01:37 PM
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Re: New York Times Hypocrits
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[ QUOTE ] The NY Times doesn't think the government should keep any secrets. I wonder if the NY Times thinks this rule applies to them? If they don't want any secrets then they should publish a list of their sources on the front page of tomorrow's issue. [/ QUOTE ] The NYT does not deny that the govt can have secrets. It just stands by its right to publish whatever it finds out about. THe two are not the same. The govt cannot and must not be able to gag a private news enterprise. [/ QUOTE ] Yeah, this isnt a newspaper's fault for publishing that information, its the government's fault for being incompetent and allowing it to leak in the first place.
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06-28-2006, 02:03 PM
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Re: New York Times Hypocrits
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The NYT does not deny that the govt can have secrets. It just stands by its right to publish whatever it finds out about. THe two are not the same. The govt cannot and must not be able to gag a private news enterprise. [/ QUOTE ] While I agree with this statement, it seems pointless to print everything simply because they found out about it and it was a government secret. Surely some discretion should be used on each story they discover, no? How does this help the American people in any way? How were we being harmed by not knowing this information? Is more good done by releasing this story or moving on to the next one? I doubt the NYT had any good answers for these questions when they decided to go with the story. The NYT's main agenda is not to exercise a free press in order to help the public. It wants to do whatever it can to break down the Bush administration and the right. *(Note: I'm not a Republican or a Bush supporter)
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06-28-2006, 02:31 PM
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Re: New York Times Hypocrits
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[ QUOTE ] The NY Times doesn't think the government should keep any secrets. I wonder if the NY Times thinks this rule applies to them? If they don't want any secrets then they should publish a list of their sources on the front page of tomorrow's issue. [/ QUOTE ] Seems you don't understand the value of a free press. [/ QUOTE ] Good for you. You can contemplate that value while reading a NYT issue with the next (and possibly preventible with some restraint by the press) terrorist attack that kills someone you care about.
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#8
06-28-2006, 03:49 PM
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Re: New York Times Hypocrits
The truly hypocritical thing about the New York Times is they ran a story on September 24, 2001 criticizing the Bush administration for not doing enough to monitor terrorist financial transactions. Now they criticize him for doing it. Talk about damned if you do and damned if you don't...
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06-28-2006, 04:01 PM
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Re: New York Times Hypocrits
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[ QUOTE ] [ QUOTE ] The NY Times doesn't think the government should keep any secrets. I wonder if the NY Times thinks this rule applies to them? If they don't want any secrets then they should publish a list of their sources on the front page of tomorrow's issue. [/ QUOTE ] Seems you don't understand the value of a free press. [/ QUOTE ] Good for you. You can contemplate that value while reading a NYT issue with the next (and possibly preventible with some restraint by the press) terrorist attack that kills someone you care about. [/ QUOTE ] So, as "fear of terrorist attacks" has been the rallying cry to systematically eliminate many of our Constitutionally-Protected freedoms over the last 5 years...it appears they have finally made it all the way to the 1st. That is just awesome. Constitutional freedoms are unnecessary anyway, everybody knows the government knows what's best for you.
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06-28-2006, 04:05 PM
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Re: New York Times Hypocrits
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Good for you. You can contemplate that value while reading a NYT issue with the next (and possibly preventible with some restraint by the press) terrorist attack that kills someone you care about. [/ QUOTE ] X might lead to unsafety. Therefore, no one may ever do X again. You must lead a fun life.
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