The Red Brick Times

Here's the opening to an Op/Ed article in The Huffington Post that caught my attention:

"Don’t you love the way many in the media are trying to spin the London bombings? Instead of focusing on the bloody deconstruction of Bush’s “fight them there so we don’t have to fight them here” strategy, they are using it to promote Bush’s failing agenda."

I haven't read much of this (blog? ezine?) yet, it's pretty new. Neocons on the web seem to hate it, obviously a point in its favor. "Eat the Press", a column there by Harry Shearer, seems pretty cool. I'm intrigued enough to read some more there by and by. Though I'm a huge fan of web publishing, at least in concept (power to the people! yo!), it takes a long time for a site like this to impress me on a more than superficial level. If anyone else feels like checking this one out please let me know what you think.
Posted 6:33 AM by whatley (2) comments

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This is about a week after the fact but I want to follow the posting for a while . I like most of what I've read. Everybody seems pretty well informed an reasonably stable. I particularly liked this guy http://www.huffingtonpost.com/theblog/archive/cenk-uygur/put-your-country-above-yo_4143.html

# posted by  A. O. : July 14, 2005 11:42 PM
 
Yeah, an interesting perspective.

I'm becoming more and more dissatisfied with the tendency of news organizations, blogs, whatever, to adopt a certain political philosophy and then only publish opinions that agree with that philosophy. I realize that this is hardly a new phenomenon, but over the last 5 or 10 years it seems to have spun out of control. Rush Limbaugh is the poster boy for this sort of thing and, though an obvious liar and general asshole, has made things like the propaganda spewing Fox News believable to some people by comparison. The Huffington Post ain't Fox News by a longshot but still. Whatever happened to intelligent discourse?

# posted by  whatley : July 16, 2005 7:28 AM
 
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