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Re: The Guardian unworthy of toilet paper?
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Tue, 4 Oct 2005 14:31:05 GMT
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   And the smear works like a charm. For instead of debating the sleezeball journalism practiced by the Guardian (which was the topic of my post), we are talking about Bennett, and whether he’s a racist, and when was the last time he beat his wife.

Brilliant.


JOHN

While I agree in principle with what you are saying I don’t actually see you debating the ‘smear’ in the article at all. You have repeatedly stated that it is a smear and you have provided a transcript and you have (debatebly incorrectly) brought up the “when was the last time he beat his wife” point, but you have yet to give a valid argument as to why that article is a smear.

The title is, as with newspaper titles everywhere, sensationalist but the article itself makes a fairly honest assesment of his position in my opinion. Would you care to elaborate on what part of it you see as ‘smear’?

Tim



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(...) I'm not John. But I think the title of the article is the smeary (or 'sensationalist' if you prefer) part, not the body. But then, so's the title of this thread (as John chose it), it smears the Guardian, doesn't it? It does so in the name of (...) (19 years ago, 4-Oct-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)

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(...) The whole "race issue" is a throwaway. I think what statistic Bennnett is picking up on is that the crime rate is disproportionately greater among black people (which is fact). So if you hypothetically aborted all black babies, then yeah, (...) (19 years ago, 4-Oct-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)

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