"Cub Driver" wrote in message
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On 03 Oct 2003 16:38:03 GMT, ost (Chris Mark) wrote:

Something big will surely
come out of this revolution in information sharing.

Let us hope so. I think, though, that the Chattering Classes are so
secure in their nests that they simply don't admit the existence of an
alternate universe--the universe inhabited by firemen, police, and
soldiers. (It seems to me that whenever I see an article about a
reservist or guardsman in Iraq, he or she turns out to be a cop or
firefighter in real life.)

I was particularly struck by the cover of Time magazine, in which Bush
makes a second appearance in his aircraft carrier walk-on, but this
time hadlined: NO, IT'S NOT OVER, or words to that effect. Time can
trust to the short memory of its readers, that what the man said was
something entirely different: major combat operations are over, which
they most certainly were and are. That cover could have been a paid ad
by the Dean campaign! Yet the Good People at Time would have apoplexy
if you accused them of bias.

Kinda makes me yearn for the days when Time was a right-wing
publication.

Lately I have been watching Walter Cronkite's narration of the CBS
Video Library of World War II. Repeatedly he refers to "our troops".
Can you imagine any TV anchor today using that phrase? It would be
"American forces" or more likely "the Bush administration".

That might be because WW2 was a war worth fighting.

John