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Article #420Re: Example of propaganda in Austin Texas paper
From: Sampan Touk
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2006 00:43
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2006 00:43
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"Bill Carter" <qhk6cxl02@sneakemail.com> wrote in message news:Pq6dnaD-E964hI7YnZ2dnUVZ_rCdnZ2d@giganews.com... > 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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