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To: marron

I guess it's because the story was written by an Aussie to whom the terror organisation JI (Indonesia)and the name Hambali rings louder bells than Yousef.

However, I'm inclined to agree leaving out the mastermind shows how shallow journalistic research is, regardless of nationality.


7 posted on 02/10/2006 8:54:57 PM PST by Fred Nerks (Understand Islam. Read the Biography THE LIFE OF MUHAMMAD. pdf link on My Page)
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To: Fred Nerks

Good point.


8 posted on 02/10/2006 9:14:20 PM PST by marron
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To: Fred Nerks
Fine article, generally.
I guess it's because the story was written by an Aussie to whom the terror organisation JI (Indonesia)and the name Hambali rings louder bells than Yousef.

However, I'm inclined to agree leaving out the mastermind shows how shallow journalistic research is, regardless of nationality.

Journalism is inherently shallow since, as a genre of nonfiction, it is defined by its deadlines.

Journalism is also inherently arrogant when it presumes to be more objective than the general public. Objectivity is a virtue, and it is arrogant to argue from a claim of your own superior virtue.

That's why sophistry has such a bad name - it's simply the assumption of your own superior wisdom. And if two people each argue from the assumption that they are wiser than the other, you don't have a debate but a shouting match, if not a fistfight.

Why Broadcast Journalism is
Unnecessary and Illegitimate


10 posted on 02/11/2006 3:36:52 AM PST by conservatism_IS_compassion (The idea around which liberalism coheres is that NOTHING actually matters but PR.)
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