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April 27, 2019
Re Trump's hero, Robert E Lee
From the American Civil War Museum via Mikel Jollett
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1 comment:
Tom Puckett
said...
Although its implied by publishing this headline and snippet together, there is nothing about the paring to indicate that someone who finds heroic actions sufficient to call someone a hero has been aware of other horrific less than heroic actions by that person.
Hope you were able to follow that line of reasoning... it is a long sentence!
In other words, I take more about the motivations of the publishers than the person(s) they are talking about, from such postings... I'm sure this incident is not what anyone, including the President, would call heroic.
Furthur, I wonder if the journalism best practice would have been to first ask the White House for comment? Like Paul Newman said to Sally Field in Absence Of Malice, 1981,
"If you want to know what's true, how come you don't talk to me before you write what they say?"
The reader doesn't even know who says that Trump's hero is Robert E Lee, who, though he's so anti-heroic, does have a mansion, Arlington House, The Robert E. Lee Memorial, at Arlington National Cemetery...
Well, just a little Saturday morning free-association...
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Although its implied by publishing this headline and snippet together, there is nothing about the paring to indicate that someone who finds heroic actions sufficient to call someone a hero has been aware of other horrific less than heroic actions by that person.
Hope you were able to follow that line of reasoning... it is a long sentence!
In other words, I take more about the motivations of the publishers than the person(s) they are talking about, from such postings... I'm sure this incident is not what anyone, including the President, would call heroic.
Furthur, I wonder if the journalism best practice would have been to first ask the White House for comment? Like Paul Newman said to Sally Field in Absence Of Malice, 1981,
"If you want to know what's true, how come you don't talk to me before you write what they say?"
The reader doesn't even know who says that Trump's hero is Robert E Lee, who, though he's so anti-heroic, does have a mansion, Arlington House, The Robert E. Lee Memorial, at Arlington National Cemetery...
Well, just a little Saturday morning free-association...
Thanks, Tom
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