Re: Vietnam (was Re: ISS Heads of Agency Meeting ...Crew Expansion?)

From: Perplexed in Peoria (jimmenegay_at_sbcglobal.net)
Date: 08/03/04 

Date: Tue, 03 Aug 2004 00:26:21 GMT

"Rand Simberg" <newsgroups@transterrestrial.com> wrote in message news:VEAPc.7009$9Y6.1845@newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net...
> Greg D. Moore (Strider) wrote:
>
> >>>Yeah, and some of those happen to be journalists working for mainstream
> >>>media. Why are those less reliable?
> >>
> >>Because they don't bother to go out and find out what's happening in the
> >>country. They sit in Baghdad hotel bars and talk to each other.
> >
> >
> > Of course note, Rand who I'm fairly certain has not been to Baghdad can
> > state as a fact as to what they are doing. Impressive.
>
> I'm not "stating it as a fact." Obviously I'm describing their
> philosophical reporting technique, not their literal one. The point is
> that they don't go out of the city much, unless there's bad news, and
> they never go out looking for good news.
>
> Anyone who took that statement literally deserves to be, well, as
> misinformed as they must be.

Don't worry Rand. No one is so misinformed as to take your
statements literally. This is the internet. Everyone here is
to be assumed to be a liar until they establish some kind of
positive track record.

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