AP Admits Tampering With Paris Muslim Protest Story
From the People's Cube :
Claims that Associated Press editors habitually slant facts in AP stories have recently been substantiated by a complaint from an AP writer whose report on last week's demonstrations in Paris
was changed to a complete opposite of what she had written. "When they changed 'Muslim hoodlums' to 'disaffected youths' I thought they were improving on the sentence flow and prose styling," says AP reporter Ellen Stanley. "When they changed 'violent gangs' to 'violin fans' I thought they were making a joke. When they changed 'assheaded socialist policies' to 'inspiring government programs' and 'appeasement' to 'solution' I thought they were being sarcastic. Taken together, however, all these small edits changed the meaning of my report in its entirety.
The article concludes with the wise:
Conservative critics may argue that the media's job is not to indoctrinate the masses and present an ideologically filtered subjective version of reality, but to give us reliable information that will allow us to form our own objective opinions. To which their opponents in the media respond that apparently there's not nearly enough indoctrination, otherwise conservatives would not be allowed to voice their stupid opinions about objective reality.
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Problem is,
the essence of humor is truth, and whoever wrote the piece doesn't seem to know much about Muslim communities in France (blockquote/indent isn't appearing as an option!):
"Isn't it nice to come to someone else's country, live off its dwindling wealth, and march the streets with 20,000 complaints about it?
(snip)
While common sense would dictate many of them should be arrested and deported immediately, these hoodlums freely marched through Paris..."
Do you want to guess how many of those marching are actually immigrants? How many are first generation? Second generation? Third generation?
A lot of these people have been there since France was a colonial power - duh, how do you think they got there in the first place? They're citizens by now, their parents were citizens, their grandparents were citizens.
But whoever wrote the article thinks: Muslim = foreigner. Deport.
It'd be like telling some Chinese woman on the street "We should send you back to your country" and her responding, "What? My ancestors were building railroads in this country before yours even stepped off the boat!"
There's actually a wonderful French novel called Un aller simple, which muses about what would happen if you accidentally deported a French born "foreigner" - the poor guy ends up in a country he knows nothing about, surrounded by a language he doesn't even speak. It's quite a funny novel - because it understands the truth of the situation. See? Humor = truth. Lack of humor = Republican!
Saint, n. A dead sinner revised and edited. - Ambrose Bierce
wherever they came from...
Pico, European tradition does not include welcoming huddled, etc. masses to their shores. Rather fighting off different attacking hordes through the centuries.
The French gave US their statue of liberty along with lots of undesirables they were trying to get rid of. Other countries just sent their undesirables hoping the Injuns would kill them.
Sic semper tyrannis
Lack of humor = Republican!
This isn't true. Republicans laugh at Democrats all the time, but the Democrats never laugh at themselves. So who lacks a sense of humor?
Wow, you can edit your previous comments! I like that feature. Now you can
fxifix those spelling errors.I'm the Bugs Bunny of Swords Crossed!
-4 Strongly Disagree - 0 Meh - Strongly Agree +4you can only edit them
until they have been replied to. It's unfair to let people keep editing stuff in perpetuity because they can adjust their arguments if they say dumb stuff.
"To discuss evil in a manner implying neutrality, is to sanction it." AR
1984
I've been to one board where people could always edit their comments and reading through threads often felt like onset of insanity.
Sic semper tyrannis
I can only imagine
it would be crazy.
Administrators can edit their own and other people's comments but I am sure it will not be abused :)
"To discuss evil in a manner implying neutrality, is to sanction it." AR
Oh, yeah?
Explain this
? :)
We are all mediators, translators. - Derrida
hehe
since Brendan is one of the more moral users here, I am not too worried :)
"To discuss evil in a manner implying neutrality, is to sanction it." AR
Democrats never laugh at themselves?
I'm not one to argue that The Daily Show/Colbert Report are fair and balanced, but they sure do love skewering Democrats - even if they do it less often than Republicans. Meanwhile, I'm thinking of prominent Republican comedians, and... Do you really want Dennis Miller? I'd vote for John Yoo, though - he's pretty funny.
Saint, n. A dead sinner revised and edited. - Ambrose Bierce