Pixelated Semantics

The sharks that whimpered

CNN seems like it is joining the sharks circling the Bush Administration in recent weeks: it's currently featuring an article on the "slash-and-burn assaults on [the Administration's] critics". However, the article fails to deliver much in the way of substantial analysis; it retreads current knowledge on the "CIA-leak" affair with a very narrow focus. The writing appears to be more damage control than investigation; there is no substantive background or detailed analysis of technique and strategy. By focussing on "small" (or apparently isolated) problems in this way, the larger issues (and deliberate patterns of behaviour) often escape scrutiny.

These techniques, of assault on critics, and damage control by distracting admissions, are also notably stock in trade of Man of Steel's Australian 'government' (as a browse through the archives of this site should evidence).

Item posted by AutoEditor at 3:25 pm ::