On Sat, 6 Nov 2004, Gautam Mukunda wrote:
> Thanks, Doug. Just a note - the Washington Post ran > an article on the possibility just before the > election. Quite a few Republicans (myself included, > actually) thought it was a clear attempt to help the > Kerry campaign (and thus somewhat out of character for > the usually excellent Post, and particularly so for > Tom Ricks, the best defense reporter in the business > now that Rick Atkinson is writing books instead of > reporting) by stirring up draft rumors before the > election. Nonetheless, the article was overwhelming > that the chance for a draft was very low to > nonexistent. The URL is: > http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A440-2004Oct26.html > > I do note that they didn't ask talk to some of the > people I would have expected them to talk to - Harvey > Sapolsky and Cindy Williams at MIT, for example, or > Charlie Moskos at Northwestern. My guess is that this > is because the Post knew what they would say and it > didn't fit with the storyline that they wanted. Occasionally the Post will skew things and create stuff that just isn't there. And if they do it on the wrong story, someone a lot closer to the facts will harbor a deep mistrust of the paper for 10 years or so, and will only reluctantly be persuated that it's actually a good newspaper. At least, that's what happened to me. Julia _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
