The vega takes on Big Media

Writing to Time to complain about their flogging of the Cheney attack...

You shamelessly repeat Dick Cheney's cynical attack on John Kerry, and explain it by stating that Kerry promised "to fight a 'more sensitive' war on terrorism." Dick Cheney knows and, hopefully, the editors of Time magazine do as well, that's not what Kerry said. What John Kerry said was, "I believe I can fight a more effective, more thoughtful, more proactive, more sensitive war on terror that reaches out to other nations and brings them to our side..." Furthermore, later in Cheney's statement, he said "sensitivity" was needed in the battle of Najaf. But you don't mention that. By simply repeating Cheney's attacks, you act as a tool of the Bush campaign and fail to do one of journalism's most important duties -- to keep our politicians honest.

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