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Re: Example of propaganda in Austin Texas paper

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From: Sampan Touk
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2006 00:43
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"Bill Carter" <qhk6cxl02@sneakemail.com> wrote in message 
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> Chow S wrote:
>> don't bother with the AAS, it is 99.44% CRAP directed by the owner a 
>> leftist liberal bitch out of Atlanta Georgia.
>>
>> AAS is so bad that they deliver it for free to about 1/2 their 
>> "customers"
>>
>> even the chief editor is an opinionated idiot,
>
> Most of section A of the AAS comes directly from the Associate Press
> or the Reuters wire services.

not so at all, check the paper.
The paper sucks big time.
Every Sunday they have a big front page article that is divisive.
Reuters is a great news source.  How dare you put it in the same sentance as 
AAS!


>If its crap then all the other papers
> in the country are also crap.

That doesn't follow at all, generalizer.

> At least 80% of the AAS is local, sports,

look at the source of the articles, bonehead.
80% of the paper is flipping ADs.

> business, and entertainment news. How biased can that be?
>
> Now, what a newspaper can do is select which wire service articles to
> print in section A and where to place it. The papers in some
> cities I've visited simply omit anything critical of the Republicans
> and place the favorable articles right up on the front page. Reminds
> me of the old Soviet Union.

That is what the AAS does.

>
> The editorial page is a different matter. You do realize that an
> editorial is an opinion by definition, right? And Austin is a liberal
> city, a progressive opinion is well received. There are plenty of
> newspapers in the Wall Street Journal mold, AAS is relatively balanced.

Bullshit.  AAS attacks the police, Barton Springs,  to sell newspapers,  it 
is crap. 
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