[extropy-chat] Bill Moyers' Comments - Debunked

[spike]

> Damien Broderick
> Subject: Re: [extropy-chat] Bill Moyers' Comments - Debunked
> 
> At 08:24 AM 2/7/2005 -0800, Mike wrote:
> 
> >quote attributed to Regan
> >admin Interior Sect'y James Watt is entirely fabricated.
> 
> Interesting!
> 
> <James Watt was a controversial figure; but one thing he was not
> controversial for was advocating environmental pillaging...
> 
> But it must have been `quite a news story in the early 1980s', because I
> was aware of it back then (and horrified by the alleged claim) in deepest
> darkest Oz...
> 
> Damien Broderick


The internet is creating a new era.  Political dirty
tricks will be revealed.  This fabricated James Watt
quote will now be given much more circulation than it
would have in the days when newspapers and other mainstream
media controlled what we learned.  I have no doubt that
some papers at the time ran a retraction paragraph, perhaps
on the lower left corner of page 34, after writing the
original quote on the front page.

The blogosphere has revealed rathergate, bombgate,
the (so far) three opinion columnists who were taking 
money from the White House to promote its policies.
Perhaps we will enter a time when long-believed and
media-promoted fallacies will be gradually and finally 
corrected.  Without the internet, how would we have
ever heard of something James Watt didn't say 24
years ago?

spike