fact checking for peace





- bill 9-18-2001 8:31 pm

nice job. whered you run across that?
- dave 9-18-2001 8:39 pm [add a comment]


  • as usual, the fmu message board - they are also busy over there debating a smiths song with "killing arabs" in the title - self editing or censorship ? YOU DECIDE




    - bill 9-19-2001 1:24 am [add a comment]


    • you sure its not The Cure?
      - dave 9-19-2001 1:28 am [add a comment]


      • reads like an homage to Camus The Stranger. speaking of self censorship, how about this? it took i national calamity but theyve finally found a reason to pull alanis morisettes Ironic off the air. isnt that ironic, dontcha think?
        - dave 9-19-2001 1:33 am [add a comment]


      • This song got me to read the book when I was a lad.
        - steve 9-19-2001 2:19 am [add a comment]


        • good thing irwin was there to set the record straight
          - dave 9-19-2001 2:22 am [add a comment]


          • Link doesn't work. It's got a dmtree address appended; same thing happened on the last link I posted.
            - alex 9-19-2001 2:26 am [add a comment]


            • thanks. fixed. but really, can you blame a song thats misinterpreted?
              - dave 9-19-2001 2:58 am [add a comment]


              • Po-Mo lit theory would say there’s no such thing as misinterpretation, or that it doesn’t differ from interpretation as such. But that was before. Here’s another chance for the Right to attack those soulless academics who teach our children all that anti-American intellectual junk. Can ivory towers survive when steel ones fall? Can retrenchment roll back ideas, ways of looking at the world? Ways of thinking we’ve long considered a fait accompli?
                The real danger is bombing ourselves back to the Stone Age.

                - alex 9-19-2001 3:43 am [add a comment]


    • The CNN/Palestinians cheering story was mentioned on my page on 9/14. Not sure I agree with the fact checker, that it's OK for CNN to run a file tape if the story it "illustrates" is true.
      - tom moody 9-19-2001 5:13 am [add a comment]


      • i agree with you. the networks get a little too caught up with "illustrating" their "story" rather than showing and telling us what actually happened. and, as usual, as the networks go on patting themselves on the back for the seriousness of their coverage (lets see that explosion one more time), one network has said its had enough of enticing us with the crash and burn pornography. if only cbs, which is still the only tv station i can see, were so prudent.

        - dave 9-19-2001 5:50 am [add a comment]



exactamundo (pardonmyfuzzyfactchecking) the list and the message board where you can also read a transcript of todays interview with Chomsky on radio B92 Belgrade.



- bill 9-18-2001 10:54 pm [add a comment]


  • just now posted on the message board is the new fall schedule, effective Oct 1 : "Democracy Now" has found a home in the metro area m-f 7-8 pm / Although were still carried in some other markets, DN could not be heard in this area since baicanned them.
    - bill 9-19-2001 11:11 am [add a comment]






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