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MaggieL · 09-15-2006, 08:43 AM

[quote=Hippikos]And as usual you're attacking the writer and not the article itself. QUOTE]Pointing out that the quote is anonymous is about *the article*...and this makes the writer's motivations germane. That cluster munitions were used is not in dispute...the dispute is *how*--for which we have only Rappaport's anonymous source along with the source's hearsay about what his superior said.

That cluster munitions were used doesn't make the quote from Rappaport's anonymous source "fit seamlessly". If the anonymous source claimed an IDF soldier executed a pregnant 14-year old Lebanese girl with a point-blank pistol shot to the head, would you then say that charge "fit seamlessly" with the fact that IDF troops carry pistols?

You can laugh if you like, but I think objectivity is important in a journalist. You may be more interested in the political usefulness of sources like Rappaport and Fisk, who seem to beleve their job is enforcing their morality rather than reporting facts.

09-15-2006, 08:43 AM	#342
MaggieL in the Hour of Scampering Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Jeffersonville PA (15 mi NW of Philadelphia) Posts: 4,060	[quote=Hippikos]And as usual you're attacking the writer and not the article itself. QUOTE]Pointing out that the quote is anonymous is about the article...and this makes the writer's motivations germane. That cluster munitions were used is not in dispute...the dispute is how--for which we have only Rappaport's anonymous source along with the source's hearsay about what his superior said. That cluster munitions were used doesn't make the quote from Rappaport's anonymous source "fit seamlessly". If the anonymous source claimed an IDF soldier executed a pregnant 14-year old Lebanese girl with a point-blank pistol shot to the head, would you then say that charge "fit seamlessly" with the fact that IDF troops carry pistols? You can laugh if you like, but I think objectivity is important in a journalist. You may be more interested in the political usefulness of sources like Rappaport and Fisk, who seem to beleve their job is enforcing their morality rather than reporting facts. __________________ "Neither can his Mind be thought to be in Tune,whose words do jarre; nor his reason In frame, whose sentence is preposterous..."