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March 06, 2006

The NYTimes is going down the toilet

I should have written about this Saturday morning, while it was still fresh in my mind, but a PSY100 paper distracted me.

Hell, the damned thing is due at 11am and I'm not done with it. Though I will be in about a half hour, so I'm ok.

So here's what happened. I'm closing up the restaurant with my boss, and decide to go next door. As my boss and I are trading quips about my (not) getting shitfaced, an odd young man is standing, smoking a cig and looking like a dog at a ping-pong match. He and I start talking and we end up going in to the bar next door to get a drink. Ok, no big deal, I've done this before and I know the bartenders working that night (it's why I decided to get a drink before going home anyway). So we go in and continue our conversation. It comes out that he's a NYTimes reporter and just got back from Iraq. He's convinced it's a pile of shit and that we really screwed up. As he goes on and on, I'm bringing up stories written by Brendan Loy and Michael Totten about the good things happening. I mention Iraq the Model and Zeyad, to point out that the residents of Baghdad, those who have a bigger stake in the future of the country than we do, feel things are going very well, given the circumstances.

He uses the old "bloggers are people in their pajamas in their living room" line. He claims Glenn Reynolds is a partisan hack and that bloggers are simply people giving their opinions from 3000 miles away. He starts Bush-bashing. He calls the war a "disagreement over oil" and says we need alternative energies, but changes the subject when I mention that the creation of plastics uses more petroleum than energy plants. He bounces around, says he isn't a Democrat, but then proceeds to spout every party line. I sit there, let him rant for 15 or 20 minutes (by this point it's around 1:45 and I've been there for over an hour listening to him bluster), then just ask him if he believes his bias colors his stories.

He says that he is on a search for the truth and that facts are more important than opinion - that opinion has no bearing on real life and should be disregarded. That he is on a noble search for The Truth and anyone who tells him different is living in a fantasy world.

That pissed me off. Not really, but I was tired of listening to his bullshit and wanted to go home. So I stood up, told him he pissed me off (to which he said "good), and that he was living in a little fantasy world of his own. If he thinks his bias doesn't color his writing and his opinions have no bearing on truth, and if the rest of the reporters at the Times feel the same, then I see why their circulation is going in the toilet and I predict a total collapse of the paper within the next decade.

Then I called him a fucking idiot and stalked out.

Moron.

I can't believe people like that actually exist in positions of journalistic power. My confidence in the blogosphere has jumped by 300% and I have a ton more respect for Glenn and Karol for having the balls to fight with people like this on a daily basis. The liberals scare me. The idea that someone is willing to put up with the risk of death for the sake of some idealistic fantasy scares me. Risking death for freedom is one thing. Risking death for some perceived slight to freedom is an entirely different can of worms.

If I am not free, I may as well be dead. But if I am dead, my freedoms mean nothing. I would rather live, and live free. Whatever I have to do to ensure that, I will do. If it means torturing someone to get information about a future attack, fine. If it means domestic wiretapping of potential terror suspects, not a problem. If it means flooding the city with Marines, go for it.

I love my country, I love my freedoms, and I love being safe. I don't think it can get simpler than that.

Posted by Kat at March 6, 2006 09:43 AM

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