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| Thursday, April 25, 2024 |
Miles from the Mainstream |
D.
R. ZUKERMAN, proprietor |
For a Different Take…
October 5, 2016 -- …on the presidential campaign, LPR recommends the columns of Michael Goodwin in the New York Post. In his September 28 column, Goodwin suggests that Donald J. Trump cold draw protests votes against Hillary Clinton – and the media. (Also read the Post’s new columns, Salena Zito, on the campaign.) By the way, with The New York Times, devoting its news columns, editorials, opinion pieces and letters to exalting Clinton and excoriating Trump, LPR would raise the “proportionality” issue, certainly with respect to the letters on the campaign that it publishes from readers. By LPR’s rough estimate, the Times publishes no more than one in twenty letters that are pro-Trump—if that. It would seem to LPR that as considerably more than one voter in 20 will cast a ballot for Trump, the Times has a proportionality problem with the campaign comments it prints from readers. Talks about disparate impact! |
…on information about Russia policy in Ukraine and Syria, LPR recommends the Tuesday night (10 p.m. eastern time) radio conversations between Prof. Stephen F. Cohen and John Batchelor, host of the John Batchelor Show (heard on WABC) in the New York metropolitan area. Warning: Prof. Cohen is willing to question Obama administration policy on Ukraine and Russia. He remarked on the September 28 broadcast, that The New York Times and The Washington Post are acting as stenographers for the Department of Defense, indicating that they have degraded their journalistic standards. Prof. Cohen also noted the absence of dissenting voices in Congress, over administration policy towards Russia. (By the way, Prof. Cohen also commented on September 28, that Russia’s President Vladimir Putin is not “evil.” He also seriously questions whether Washington is acting in good faith in its efforts to work with Russia to defeat ISIS in Syria.) |
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