At 10:59 PM 5/10/98 -0700, Michael Price wrote:

>
>Can you spell 'Pravda', kiddies? I *knew* you could! The old Soviet editors
>look down from socialist heaven and smile broadly at the snide manipulation
>of truth by the Wall Street Journal. The Americans have learned from us
>well, they'd be thinking.

Hmmm...I think Pravda learned from the Brits and Yanks, actually. The notion
that ethical journalism is objective is pretty recent. For most of the
history
of the press, the tool's been used to promote the political views of the owner
rather than to objectively describe events so folks can make up their own
mind.



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