Re: Media myths (Was Townsend)

[Dave Faneuf <tklaundry@juno.com>]

On Tue, 14 Jan 2003 16:46:13 -0500 "Dan Billings"
<billings@suscom-maine.net> writes:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dave Faneuf" <tklaundry@juno.com>
> To: <Chuckigo@att.net>
> Cc: <billings@suscom-maine.net>; 
> <boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2003 12:19 PM
> Subject: Media myths (Was Townsend)
> 
> > I changed the topic on this one.  On The Media had an interesting 
> piece
> > this week on some of the political myths regarding Al Gore that 
> have
> > turned into reality by The Media.  Including the invention of  the
> > internet, discovery of Love Canal,  The Love Story claim etc.  
> They have
> > archived the show so you can listen to it at
> > http://www.wnyc.org/onthemedia/.  Click on "Gored by the Media 
> Bull"
> 
> Give me a break.  The short hand versions of what Gore actually said 
> may be
> inaccurate but he did exagerate his involvement in all the items 
> mentioned
> above.
> 
> -- Dan Billings, Bowdoinham, Maine

I was actually going to go through the transcript 
of the On The Media segment, but then I 
thought you can do that yourself, so what I did 
(since we all know that NPR and On The Media 
are liberal mouthpieces) is I went to the 
Internet that we all know was invented by Al 
Gore.

first, Gore Internet
http://www.snopes.com/quotes/internet.htm
http://dir.salon.com/tech/col/rose/2000/10/05/gore_internet/index.html
http://www.firstmonday.dk/issues/issue5_10/wiggins/
http://commons.somewhere.com/rre/2000/RRE.Al.Gore.and.the.Inte1.html
http://www.perkel.com/politics/gore/internet.htm

gore and love canal
http://www.bushnews.com/goremarch.htm
http://www.consortiumnews.com/2000/020100a.html
http://www.newsmax.com/showinside.shtml?a=1999/12/7/04706
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/1999/12/02/politics/main72638.shtml
http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/1131/nov99.html
http://www.dailyhowler.com/h120699_1.shtml

gore and love story
http://rush_awards.tripod.com/liesaboutgore.html
http://vikingphoenix.com/news/archives/1997/gore9704.htm
http://www.gargaro.com/notgore.html
http://www.tompaine.com/feature.cfm?ID=3729&view=print
http://www.tompaine.com/feature.cfm?ID=3729&view=print

Never let the facts get in the way of a good 
story, especially one someone who's politics you 
oppose.
df