Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2.fluke 9/24/84; site fluke.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!genrad!decvax!tektronix!uw-beaver!ssc-vax!fluke!moriarty From: moriarty@fluke.UUCP (The Napoleon of Crime) Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: Re: liberal news media Message-ID: <155@vax2.fluke.UUCP> Date: Sat, 15-Dec-84 14:05:23 EST Article-I.D.: vax2.155 Posted: Sat Dec 15 14:05:23 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 19-Dec-84 02:41:56 EST References: <281@amdcad.UUCP> <624@pucc-k> <163@gcc-opus.ARPA> Reply-To: moriarty@fluke.UUCP (The Napoleon of Crime) Distribution: net Organization: The Twilight Zone Lines: 68 I won't get too far into this, due to the fact that I think Tom probably let loose to see how many people he could get flaming white hot mad. Well, sorry, Tom, old chap, but everyday stupidity just doesn't get me upset... if it did, I'd have gone to the House of Gaa-Gaa a long time ago.... In article <163@gcc-opus.ARPA> tom@gcc-opus.UUCP (Tom Westberg) writes: >So think about it. Here is this fertilizer plant which is probably saving >millions of Indians anually. They have an accident which kills a few thousand. >Now, what are you liberals going to do? Close the plant? Drive Union Carbide >to bankruptcy? This is the same sort of fuzzy headed liberal thinking that >invariably leads liberals to shoot (or tax, or regulate, or sue, or protest, >or boycott, or anything else handy) the hand that feeds them! > >So, now we have the facts of the story. And what do we hear on the radio? >What do we see in the papers? What do we see on the CBS Evening News? Hell, >it's called a 'tragedy', a 'disaster'. Union Carbide is raked over the coals >for negligence. Interviews with sick Indians. Hell, the PR is so great that >congressmen are arranging junkets to go take a look! As if it they could >help the situation! > I think the idea is that we need to determine what happened, and if Union Carbide was or was not negligent. Perhaps they were... I don't know! That's what I watch the news for, and why I read the New York Times. As to it being a tragedy, well, yes! The annihilation of innocents is tragic, and if you have a sense of imagination, you can understand and empathize for those people. We have a nuclear power plant near Portland, OR... and I do not like to dwell on what would happen if my family and friends in Portland were wiped out overnight. Enough of this thinking could drive you nuts (or, more nuts than I already is...). >And then we get those Liberals (making asses of themselves as usual) complaining >that Union Carbide is just putting their plant in India so they won't have US >regulatory agencies to contend with. After all, they say, this wouldn't have >happened if the EPA had been looking over their shoulder! Come on, give me >a break! You think those morons in the EPA would have made a difference? All >they would have checked is whether there was a filter between the crappers and >the river! And where WOULD you rather have the leak, in India or in your >back yard? Probably the very least we would have had if the EPA had been involved is a better idea of how it happened. It'd be nice to prevent it from happening again, wouldn't you say? :-| Oh, as to a liberal press, I would say that it's about a 50/50 liberal/conservative press. The problem is political stance, it's reporting skill, sensationalism, and quality of writing. Seattle is a good example of this: we have The Seattle Times, a more liberal paper, and The Seattle Post-Intelligence (oh, I *love* that title... does this mean they are beyond Intelligence?), a more conservative paper. Both are crap, due to sloppy reporting and columns (the Times is particularly obnoxious). I'd stick to the New York times and NPR, as both of them deal with foreign new quite a bit. Well, Christmas is upon us, which means giving to those who are less fortunate than us. Planning on giving anything to the needy, Tom, or are you just gonna shoot 'em to put 'em out of their collective misery? Lines we'll never see: "This is Paul Harvey.......... Tah-Tah." Moriarty, aka Jeff Meyer John Fluke Mfg. Co., Inc. UUCP: {cornell,decvax,ihnp4,sdcsvax,tektronix,utcsrgv}!uw-beaver \ {allegra,gatech!sb1,hplabs!lbl-csam,decwrl!sun,ssc-vax} -- !fluke!moriarty ARPA: fluke!moriarty@uw-beaver.ARPA