Having made all too precious-little headway in overcoming the failures of the U.S. corporate mainstream media — see these comments from over the weekend on that point — I guess I need to “go overseas” to see if we can make any headway from over there instead.
I’m now honored to be contributing to the UK’s Guardian from time to time. My first column, posted today, picks up on the anthrax case, and the dismal, one-sided case made for the guilt of the now-deceased Bruce Ivins, by both the FBI and the mainstream corporate media outlets in this country, which were all too happy to pass on misleading report after misleading report from those prolific “unnamed government sources.”
As with Iraq WMD, Valerie Plame, Torture, Secret Prisons, Spying on Citizens, the U.S. Attorney Purge, Election Integrity, and so many other almost-all-but-lost landmark issues from over the past seven years or so, it has been the remarkable efforts of the citizen media that managed, at least a bit, to mitigate the corporate media-propelled “conventional wisdom” in this entire sorry matter.
Please feel free to put in a good word over there for me.
Hey, where’s your cigarette? Most British smoke so they wouldn’t have a hizzy fit.
Did you know the “happiness” rate had gone down since smoking people have been delegated to the equivalent of lepers. I think I’ll open my own “smoke shop” in my home. You know like Kramer did 🙂
Congratulations, Brad!
Can I have a raise yet? 😛
When you write for them, do you have to use S’s instead of Z’s? 😉
Joke Line really picks off “The Crazies” in his post, LOL
Congrats Brad BTW
Watch out when reporting things from foreign soil! Remember what happened to the Dixie Chicks and Greg Palast!
Stay on topic, 99!
99 asked:
Yes! Doubling your salary effective immediately! No, tripling it! 😉
Floridiot asked:
No. Apparently they do that for me (as “weaponized” became “weaponised” after they edited). Colour me grateful.
Congratulations. Keep it up.
I’m still ‘Sceptical’ about this also 😛
Your sub header said “The case may be closed but it isn’t solved”
Mine would have said “Case closed, evidence pending”
It’s just the CYnicAl way of the Feeb world I suppose, they seem to do this a lot.
Maybe that’s why they’re called ‘The Feebs’ in the first place?
I should add that the grunts on the ground are usually 100 times smarter than the higher ups in any agency, so the real Feebs (the ones that put this shit out there for our consumption) are the top 50%…I’ll lay odds on that.
For more digging info on this subject; see George Washington’s blog.