Warning: Politics!!

[havenne]

Actually, I just want to save some article references, goodies found while doing my Sunday morning surfing.  I really do not mean to offend and realize that other people are passionate about their issues, whatever they may be, just as much as I am.  Gee, aren't I willing to offer up placatory qualifying statements, today.  Usually I say something

Comments

[dragonmyass]

Sadly the Boston Globe, like so many other media reports, always seem to leave out the rest of the story. I really wish that all media would give honest representation rather than spin for the candidate of their choice. What they fail to mention on the Troopergate is that the ex-husband was using his position as a trooper to intimidate members of Palin's family. There were death threats and he even tazered a 10 year old boy. As for the commissioner or whatever that got fired...he was given a different position in the government but declined it and ended up resigning. This info came directly from a Post Standard story that ran just before the RNC and was info given in a book written by a Syracuse native on Palin months before she was even considered for VP.

[havenne]

Sorry to rile you

[dragonmyass]

Heavens, you didn't rile me. I'm just really, really finding my patience short on the biased reporting as of late. It seems to get worse every year. Actual reporting seems to be a thing of the past and it is sensationalism that sells. Chris was telling me about some of the cases he heard on grand jury & I was asking questions on things I had read in the paper. He told me that much of what is reported in the news is false and was done to sell the story to the public. I find that sad. What is the purpose of taking a crime and making it appear to be even more horrific just to sell a few more papers

[havenne]

Now I understand a bit better - you gave me an example. There are a lot of stories where I read what is offered and then have to wonder: what's missing here? If it is a story where readers can post comments (like on Syracuse.com and on some of the NY Times stories) I have to further wonder what these other people read that I didn't - other people's holes in the story are different than mine. That is assuming that I get very far in scrolling through comments; people are incredibly vicious these days and that is apart from what is in the 'news.' People are nasty