Re: "What went wrong with US Intelligence" on NPR now...

[Chris Rehm <javadisciple@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday 19 September 2001 01:49 pm, Draper, Dale wrote:
> Hmmm Chris, now who's jumping to conclusions?

I'm sorry, what conclusion did I jump to?

>  Your description does fit most of our national media to a "T". But NPR is
> not one to create an event to make news like many of it's electronic media
> brethren. (Though I have to admit I'd like to strangle the overly PC
> "viewpoint" columnists with my bare hands and yell "GET OVER YOURSELF!"
> while they passout trying to figure out if my action constitutes a hate
> crime or not. And it is, my friends, it is. I hate PC'ism with a passion)
>
> But, on news topics they tend to be very even handed and calm. With top
> government people, many of whom we never hear about as guests.
>
> Or do you think any crititique is unjustified? If so, state why please.

No, I don't think that any critique is unjustified.

Of course, I tend to believe that in the case of many national security
issues it really isn't possible to have a valid critique in the public eye.
An agency which has people in the field isn't really able to make public
information provided by those people without jeapordizing them.

So public "critiques" of such agencies are obviously done half blind. They
cannot really be for the finding of all the facts. These are for the stating
of someone's point of view and/or just creating a public feeding frenzy.

> > > On National Public Radio they have a program entitled "What went wrong
> > > with US Intelligence" THEIR title not mine and they have had some

That doesn't sound so "even handed and calm" to me.

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