WHY DIDN’T THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA COVER the speech given to terrorist Richard C. Reid (the would-be “shoe bomber”) by the judge who sentenced him to life in prison?
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Instead, we get the New York Times printing that “Mr. Ashcroft has yet to convict any actual terrorists”.
The coverage of our war on terror by the press has all-in-all, been an abomination. Of course, as Lileks noted recently, it makes sense, when you consider that the nihilism of Hunter S. Thompson is the tone journalists love to affect:
Thompson has less hope than the Islamists; at least they have an afterlife to look forward to. All we have is a country so rotten and exhausted it
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