Dan Wrote:
After thinking about it overnight, I arrived at the conclusion that we
have fundamentally different understandings of technique. Let me give an
example. You quoted a website that stated that Bush called the
Constitution "just a piece of paper." The website owner stated that he
heard this from two high ranked government officials.
Three, not two. And he wasn't going to publish until the third
volunteered the information. And he's not just a blogger or a "website"
but the oldest political news site on the web, a former reporter, real
estate lobbiest, and a GOP congressional staffer. And not a liberal by
the way.
http://www.capitolhillblue.com/dtbio.asp
And he breaks stories long before the mainstream press:
http://www.capitolhillblue.com/artman/publish/article_7894.shtml
Conclusion:
"We get calls at least once a week from mainstream media outlets wanting
access to our sources. We always tell them the same thing: We don’t burn
our sources. We suggest they get their own.
Our track record of getting to the truth of a story is a good one. We
were a year ahead of other media outlets on Bush’s temper tantrums and the
concern it caused White House staff. Recently we beat the Associated Press
by two weeks on a story about former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay
living large with lobbyists paying the bill.
We break big stories because I’m an old-fashioned journalist who believes
the way to find out the truth is by digging out the facts. I work the
phone, pump sources and research every item that crosses my desk. And, as
the record shows, it can take the mainstream media as long as two years to
catch up. That's their problem, not ours.
The keyboard commandos who litter the partisan bulletin boards like
cockroaches don’t get it because they only want news that fits into their
limited view of the world. They don’t want truth, just partisan spin that
conforms to their own political philosophy.
The same is true for the partisan political pukes who claim to be
journalists but who are, in reality, nothing more than spin machines for
one party or another. Truth is never served when presented through bias.
So let them doubt. Let them claim we don’t have the facts. Our record
proves otherwise and that drives them crazy.
Are we that good? You bet we are. And we’re getting better every day."
Your reliance on the mainstream press is unlikely to lead you to the truth
of the matter because they have become cautious to the point of being
timid. The New York Times held on to that story about Bush spying on us
all for a year. Both the Times and the Post spouted Bush propaganda prior
to the invasion and burried contradictory stories in the neither regions
of their papers. And so on and so forth. They're slow, timid and
unreliable, but you may see the "god damned piece of paper" there yet.
Give it a year or two.
Doug
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