Shouting at the television
I'm watching Bill Moyers on how the media "bought the war" - the White House line - virtually wholesale. I'm about to go hoarse from screaming at the clips.
Especially when they talk about the Washington Post (though it's hardly the only one), which basically was a house paper. The Post media critic points out that the paper ran at least a million words advocating the war; Ted Kennedy's passionate speech questioning the entire basis of it got ... thirty six words.
(Oh no. They're talking about the UN inspections ... I am not going to be able to stand this. Goddamn Colin Powell at the UN...)
This show should be mandatory viewing for every citizen in the country - and every journalist should have to watch it at least three times.
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At 11:10 AM, April 26, 2007
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<-- Older Post ^ Home Newer Post -->I watched what I could but got so disgusted I turned it off.
As to UN inspectors, an old friend of mine is a bioterrorism expert who was a UN weapons inspector before 2001. They had a mantra they learned during their training: "absence of evidence is not evidence of absence."
Sounds plausible, right? It's not.
Here's how absence of evidence works in real life and in our courts.
Say you receive shipments of widgets.
Every time you receive a shipment you make a note in your ledger book for that day.
Your book for October 5, 2006 does not have an entry for receiving a shipment.
That is an absence of evidence. However, it's good evidence that you did not receive a shipment on 10/5/06.
Absence of evidence IS evidence of absence.
The flawed mantra of the inspectors meant that no matter how much they did they were conditioned never to admit Hussein had disarmed. That's not objectivity.
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