Reply #3: Excellent letter. Those of us who grew up when the press WAS [View All]

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objective need to face the new reality, and that new reality is that today's press ACTIVELY LOOKS FOR WAYS TO PORTRAY DEMS NEGATIVELY AND REPIGS POSITIVELY. How else can one explain the black-is-white nature of our media?

The Dean caucus "issue" is but one example. When Joe Trippi called Paula Zahn on HER lying yesterday, she stonewalled him and refused to read the sentences that put context to Dean's words. If Dean said "I would NEVER condone sending our young people off to die in any war based on lies, especially an illegal war," the press would have the quote as "Dean said, and we quote, "I would...condone sending our young people off to die in any war...especially an illegal war." It's like when a movie reviewer pens, "I'm sure that the makers of this film thought they had a real Oscar contender on their hands, but this movie sucks," and the billboard at the movie house proclaims "...a real Oscar contender..." above its marquee. Context is everything.

Hell, they're doing it already - the cut-n-paste quote given a big assist through the magic of the elliptical omission.