This is CNN’s headline for a story in which Obama responds to Cheney’s tale that he has made America unsafe and prone to another terrorist attack: “On ’60 Minutes’ Obama rebukes Cheney criticism.'”
I know that newsmen are not as smart as they like to think they are, but come on! It should be “Obama rebuts Cheney criticism.” To say Obama “rebukes” Cheney criticism is to say that he chides those who criticize Cheney. I sense a right-wing conspiracy — of dunces.
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May 10, 2009 at 6:11 pm
thetigersofwrath
No newsmen are smart; we’re just good at taking shots at people who are.
Have you noticed you have an “it’s” rather than an “its” in your top story headlined ‘Watch out for terrorists! (jk.)’?
Sorry, I couldn’t resist.
May 10, 2009 at 8:34 pm
culturalcapitol
Thanks for the timely edit! And did you see Maureen Dowd’s Op-Ed in today’s Times?
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/10/opinion/10dowd.html?_r=1
May 10, 2009 at 10:13 pm
thetigersofwrath
Good editorial. Interesting how public apathy for trusted sources of news, substantiated reports and investigative research could end up achieving what countless tryrannical governments have failed to do – kill off a free press.
Beam me up now please, and let’s watch from another dimension while western democracy folds in on itself (and somebody will be watching in detail with increasing advances in surveillance).
Can you see a future in which Cultural Capitol alone is left to man the barricades against a corrupt political system?
How, for instance, without newspapers, will the public discover such political scandals such as this disgraceful abuse of public funds which has engulfed the British parliamentary system over the last few days: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/mps-expenses/5305293/David-Camerons-shadow-cabinet-drawn-into-expenses-scandal-MPs-expenses.html