Reply #130: Alright, I'll scrap that phrase if you object to it so profusely. [View All]

[riverdeep]

But on one side you have PBS, Newsweek, Washington Post, The Associated Press, The Oregonian, The New York Times (in another article the NYT is a good guy), CNN, and the many smaller newspapers that get their feeds from these sources, basically the media establishment; and on the other side Shafer from Slate, Alvarez from Willamette Week, and Sollum from Reason, probably others. Obviously the former group has more power in shaping public opinions. Your thesis is: whether out of laziness or similar beliefs on the Drug War, the former group has made claims about methamphetamine and it's effects on our nation that are overstated by a wide measure.

It's a claim that goes against the mainstream view of methamphetamine as it currently stands and that's a fact; whatever you choose to call that, I don't care.