March 21, 2006
While Georgie Ann Geyer tries to wrap her argument around the topic of war as a reason that we need to read more newpapers, she begins to make ridiculous assertions that only someone representing a dying industry could do.
This statement is almost unbelievable: "Think for a moment of what might have happened had we had better (really, any) coverage of Afghanistan during the 1990s, when the Taliban and Osama bin Laden were cooking up a second attack after the 1993 attack on the World Trade Center. Could we then have been so amazed by 9/11? Wasn't it criminally irresponsible to be so amazed?"
This is entering into the bizarre now. Her thought is that we as Americans are "criminally irresponsible" for not reading newspapers and being able to pick and choose what we want to read. Go and read the whole article and see if that isn't what she is saying. Those who were amazed by 9/11 are "criminally irresponsible," I could rest my case there by I want to take this further, when you hear people say these kinds of statements of demagoguery.
Here is the reason I am writing this on The Alpha Marketer site. If you think her last statements were bordering on the hysterical, now read this statement: "Think a little further. If more Americans had had a comprehensive view of the world -- the kind that is irrevocably blurred by the 80,000 new blogging sites launched every week -- it would have been barely possible for the 30 people who in essence started the Iraq war to have acted without the accord of the American people."
Not only are we "criminally irresponsible" to be amazed, now it is the fault of all the 80,000 new blogging sites that are coming online every week, they blur the "comprehensive view of the world" offered by printed pages. I guess you could say that the "blogs" clog the view. Hmmm. She asks us to think a little further about how it wouldn't have been possible for 9/11 to have happened and the resulting Iraq war, without the accord of the American people.
I want to tell you something, her words are a stinging rebuke of the late centralized news organizations, if they believe, along with her, these words.
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