Fwd: old noose

[Harry Edwards]

Begin forwarded message:

> From: Harry Edwards <laughingwolf at EV1.NET>
> Date: February 5, 2005 6:35:33 PM CST
> To: GHETTO2 at LISTS.WHATHELPS.COM
> Subject: old noose
> Reply-To: Remembrances of Austin Ghetto <GHETTO2 at LISTS.WHATHELPS.COM>
>
> Okay, anyone still think the New York Times is God?  Check out the 
> link below. (Godess help me I'm beginning to sound like Roger!)
>
> Here's the head and first 3 graphs:
>
> The Emperor's New Hump
> The New York Times killed a story that could have changed the 
> election—because it could have changed the election
>
>
> " In the weeks leading up to the November 2 election, the New York 
> Times was abuzz with excitement. Besides the election itself, the 
> paper’s reporters were hard at work on two hot investigative projects, 
> each of which could have a major impact on the outcome of the tight 
> presidential race.
>
> "One week before Election Day, the Times (10/25/04) ran a hard-hitting 
> and controversial exposé of the Al-Qaqaa ammunition dump—identified by 
> U.N. inspectors before the war as containing 400 tons of special 
> high-density explosives useful for aircraft bombings and as triggers 
> for nuclear devices, but left unguarded and available to insurgents by 
> U.S. forces after the invasion.
>
> "On Thursday, just three days after that first exposé, the paper was 
> set to run a second, perhaps more explosive piece, exposing how George 
> W. Bush had worn an electronic cueing device in his ear and probably 
> cheated during the presidential debates."
>
>
> But the article was killed.
>
>
> http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=2012
>
> Read and weep, along with gnashing of teeth, breaking of windows, etc.,
> twisty dodds