- To the Editors of The Washington Post:
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- Juliet Eilperin's April 12 news account in The Washington
Post of Rep. Cynthia McKinney's call for an investigation of the U.S.
adminstration
possibly having foreknowledge of 911 is interesting.
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- Eilperin notes that "McKinney seems to have tapped
into a web of conspiracy theories" concerning such foreknowledge.
Further, Eilperin -- in a surprising editorial aside -- notes that
"some
lawmakers have a less than charitable view of McKinney's penchant for
publicity."
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- As a marketing/communications specialist awarded some
of the world's top prizes in advertising -- including a Gold Clio -- I
have a less than charitable view of Eilperin's communications skills as
a journalist and a far from admiring view of any newspaper that would
promote
such reportage.
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- The news item has the telltale signs of a dismissive
smear campaign. Then again, if Eilperin were to treat McKinney's claim
with even a modicum of reportorial objectivism -- and perhaps do a little
digging into these so-called conspiratorial allegations -- she might find
herself thrust into "the buzzsaw," to steal a phrase from the
new book authored by journalist Kristina Borjesson.
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- In "Into the Buzzsaw: Leading Journalists Expose
the Myth of a Free Press" Borjesson lays bare the patterns of the
smear process. We discover that craven news editors and producers within
the mainstream media do not have the courage to deal with issues of
troubling
importance, with the result that brave Americans who speak the truth --
or who at the very least call for examination of the facts -- are
excoriated
and marginalized as self-serving crackpots.
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- Unfortunately for The Washington Post and other so-called
mainstream news organizations, a fast-growing contingent of thoughtful
souls in the United States and Canada refuse to buy these tactics any more
and in fact are turning to alternative media for reliable information and
truth based not on "spin" and "opinion" but on
facts.
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- The mere assertion that individuals within the United
States government may have had foreknowledge of 911 ought to have
journalists
running for their unofficial contacts, not for the hills.
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- What the hell has happened to The Washington Post?
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- Sincerely,
- Robert McDougall
- Canadian Citizen and former journalist
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