[mdlug-discuss] [mdlug] Is MS bribing bloggers?

[Ingles, Raymond]

> From: allen
> Ingles, Raymond wrote:
> >  You're long on conclusions and short on specific examples, from what
> > I can see. Hint hint.

> Well, there's Rathergate.

 Yeah, that was stupid. It was also quickly exposed as such. And it served as a
handy distraction from the fact that no one's been able to substantiate Bush's
Guard service to any significant degree.

> More recently there's the illusive Iraqi police lieutenant 
> that AP has grown fond of.

 You didn't read up on the followup there, did you?

 http://majikthise.typepad.com/majikthise_/2006/12/michelle_malkin.html

> Dipping back into the past a bit there's CNN's deep concern with their 
> Iraqi employees which resulted in CNN becoming a defacto arm of the 
> Iraqi Ministry of Information.

 I'm gonna need a bit more specific of a cite than this.

> I believe the New York Times has gotten in a couple of licks on what's left
> of the concept of journalistic ethics as well although I'm not sure whether
> neo-anti-Semitism or the denial of global warming denial merits the bigger
> pie in the face.

 Um, again, actual examples would be helpful here. Links to stories, for
example?

 Sincerely,

 Ray Ingles                                                 (313) 227-2317

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