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When mickeymouse offends even Mickey
Washington Times ^
| 11/02/01
| Wesley Pruden
Posted on 11/2/2001, 7:50:40 AM by kattracks
Edited on 7/12/2004, 10:35:50 PM by Jim Robinson.
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You've got to give Mickey Mouse his due. Sometimes mickeymouse is too much even for Mickey.
When David Westin, the lawyer in charge of ABC News, delivered a little homily on journalism ethics the other day in which he said he couldn't really say whether the terrorist attack on the Pentagon was morally wrong, Mickey hit the roof. Or whatever it is that a mouse hits when he gets mad.
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To: kattracks
Hey David...
To: Nick Danger
To: kattracks
He's a lawyer, not a journalist, which is a very different kind of public enemy.I love it!!
To: caseyblane
A real keeper.
To: kattracks
Bump!
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posted on
11/2/2001, 12:00:17 PM
by
mc5cents
To: kattracks
Of course, David Westin is not a journalist at all. He never has been, not even a television journalist, and as anyone at ABC News could tell you, he wouldn't know how to get off his ample capacity to cover a grass fire. He's a lawyer, not a journalist, which is a very different kind of public enemy. He probably thinks this is the way celebrity journalists are supposed to talk, remembering how Peter Jennings and Mike Wallace, on a similar occasion a decade ago, insisted that if they were accompanying enemy soldiers and learned of an imminent attack on American positions they wouldn't warn the Americans even if they could. The code of journalists is a strict one. Pay attention folks. This is what we are up against! It may have been a decade ago but they still think that way!
7
posted on
11/2/2001, 12:02:22 PM
by
mc5cents
To: kattracks
Man, can this guy write! Every sentence like a body blow!
Cordially,
8
posted on
11/2/2001, 3:41:35 PM
by
Diamond
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