Each in turn:
Socalalarm, it’s as foolish to assume the media are always wrong as it is to assume they’re always right (as FormerSanDiegan points out, they’re not always wrong even on housing). As for being convinced ‘the facts’ are wrong, you’re begging the question – our information comes from sources we know to be fallible. In the housing bubble, the ‘Rathergate’ fake memo story, the recent Photoshopped photos from a Reuters stringer, the media has screwed up or deliberately lied. Again, doesn’t mean they all do it all the time, but it means we should try to find independentinformation.
Powayseller, I’ve noticed you tend to not believe anything Bush says. He claims Arabs were behind the 9/11 attacks. Do you believe him? Do you think maybe it was the Jews?
As far as Iranian nukes, France, Germany and the UK put out a united statement earlier this year that began: Iran‘s nuclear activities have been of great concern to the international community since 2003, when Iran was forced to admit to the International Atomic Agency Authority that it was building a secret installation to enrich uranium, which could be used to produce material for nuclear
weapons. The IAEA Director General at the time found Iran’s policy of concealment had resulted in many breaches of its obligation to comply with the provisions of its Safeguards Agreement. Under the IAEA‘s rules, this should have been reported to theSecurity Council then.
Do you think Israel forced them to make that statement?
I remarked on the Spiegel’s coverage of Ahmadinejad in another thread when I noted he claimed that “a green aura was coming out of his head during his speech to the United Nations.” The same article referred to his “hate mongering” in discussing the destruction of Israel. What do you think, ps, do the Jews run the German media as well?
smfj, I’ve been talking to guys who were there too, and they won’t call it a pretty picture either. But they won’t call it a lost cause or a catastrophe, and I have yet to hear from someone over there, “Yep, it’s pretty much the same as what the tv news says.”
