Quoting Ant McWatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Platt Holden continued April 14th: > > Or perhaps I should no longer believe Jos Laycock that the Independent is > an example of professional, i.e., accurate journalism? > > Ant McWatt comments: > > Or perhaps you should look into an issue properly before spouting nonsense > about it? :-)
Oh, I see. Instead of believing what the Independent says in its headline and lead, I should go to the library and research the minutia of an issue like I'm preparing a thesis before forming an opinion. Yeah, right. > Ant McWatt comments: > > So now it's the paper's fault that you didn't read the full article > properly? Since when is it incumbent on a newspaper reader to read fully read every article? Instead, it's the responsibility of responsible journalism to tell the facts from the headline and lead on. > Where shall I go in England to find a straight-talking newspaper? > The Sun? At least I presume the girls it features are genuine. > > Ant McWatt comments: > > Well, being a Murdoch owned rag, it comes as no surprise that the Sun has an > equally low journalistic quality on a par with the other Murdoch owned media > sources you often quote on this forum. Couldn't be much lower than the misleading headline and lead in the Independent story we're talking about -- misleading according to you that is. > Anyway, to expand this argument, the NHS is an example of when a particular > ideology is followed blindly irrespective of its appropriateness for a > particular service or provision of goods. The MOQ shows that what _works > best_ in practice must be given priority above the tenets of any particular > static ideology (whether that's socialism or capitalism or whatever). > Hence, selling automobiles is fine within a 100% free market (you're not > going to die if you don't have the latest Oldsmobile) but selling healthcare > isn't. Privatising the NHS to any further extent than it is already isn't > the answer to its problems. So why pay doctors and nurses more than subsistence if the service they provide is "above the free market." You socialists just don't get how the world works sometimes, as Pirsig took pains to point out. Best regards, Platt ------------------------------------------------- This mail sent through IMP: http://horde.org/imp/ moq_discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
