December 22, 2005
What # is the Sin of Omission?
The same story was published by the York (PA) Daily Record and the New York Times (by the time you read this, you'll probably have to pay for it, so you'll just have to trust me) -- but a little something was missing from the latter..
Here's the quote from the Judge Jones, ruling on teaching intelligent design in the schools -- OMITTED from the Times version:
"They lied.
William Buckingham and Alan Bonsell wanted to bring God into high school biology class, and in the process, they lied.
They lied about their motives.
They lied about their actions.
They lied about what they did or didn't say at public meetings.
They even lied when they claimed newspaper reporters lied in stories about Dover school board meetings.
In his ruling on the Dover case, U.S. Judge John E. Jones III said it was "ironic" that individuals who "proudly touted their religious convictions in public" would "lie" under oath.
Yes, ironic - at the very least. But also sinful according to the 9th Commandment."
Who eliminated that part?
And more. Evidently, Arthur Sulzberger and Bill Keller were summoned to Washington and asked not to publish the illegal surveillence story by the Great Protector himself. Why did they decide to do it a year late? And why didn't they report the the summons to the Offal Office in their newspaper?
Is The Times taking lessons, as well as orders, from the administration, who omit or distort important information regularly?
We'd better learn to read between the lines.
And while we're on the subject of newspapers, from an email of a dear and close personal friend:
1. The Wall Street Journal is read by the people who run the country.
2. The Washington Post is read by people who think they run the
country.
3. The New York Times is read by people who think they should run the
country and who are very good at crossword puzzles.
4. USA Today is read by people who think they ought to run the country
but don't really understand The New York Times. They do, however, like
their statistics shown in pie charts.
5. The Los Angeles Times is read by people who wouldn't mind running
the country -- if they could find the time -- and if they didn't have
to leave Southern California to do it.
6. The Boston Globe is read by people whose parents used to run the
country and did a far superior job of it, thank you very much.
7. The New York Daily News is read by people who aren't too sure who's
running the country and don't really care as long as they can get a
seat on the train.
8. The New York Post is read by people who don't care who's running
the country as long as they do something really scandalous, preferably
while intoxicated.
9. The Miami Herald is read by people who are running another country
but need the baseball scores.
10. The San Francisco Chronicle is read by people who aren't sure
there is a country ... or that anyone is running it; but if so, they
oppose all that they stand for. There are occasional exceptions if the
leaders are handicapped minority feminist atheists who also happen to
be illegal aliens from any other country or galaxy, provided, of
course, that they are not Republicans.
11. The National Enquirer is read by people trapped in line at the
grocery store.
12. None of these are read by the guy who is running the country into
the ground.
Photo note: Metaphorophotographically speaking, lines between which to read. In addition, something has been omitted from this picture -- the posts that hold the whole thing together.