A Journalist or a Propagandist

by Sean M. Madden
iNoodle.com (reprinted at PopulistAmerica.com)
August 15, 2008

Below is the body of an email I just sent, via the NYT web-based email facility, to Steven Lee Myers, who wrote yesterday's (August 14) headline piece in response to which I wrote my article, All the Propaganda That's Fit to Print.

I also cc:'d, via a separate online email, his co-author of today's (August 15) version of the same, Thom Shanker.

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Mr. Myers,

Your propaganda piece of yesterday -- Bush, Sending Aid, Demands That Moscow Withdraw -- inspired my taking the time to write an article in response. The original URL follows immediately below, followed by online reprints which have thus far [as of August 21] been published elsewhere.

• iNoodle.com
• Online Journal
• Information Clearing House
  
• PopulistAmerica.com
• Cyrano's Journal: Thomas Paine's Corner
• OpEdNews.com
• Atlantic Free Press
• Scoop
  

And I see from your follow-on headline piece that you and your colleagues' shamelessness, of course, continues.

I don't know if you consider yourself, first and foremost, a journalist or a propagandist. If the former, you are a disgrace to what was once an admirable profession. If the latter, you're a terrible one at that as well.

May you enjoy the fruits of your labors.