For one thing, I don’t know how they get away with it, and for another thing, I don’t know why they’re digging shit into their sense of history when, if you have any idea about the subject matter, the history is about as warped as their editorial staff can make it. I think the Center for Media Democracy, a pile of crap that keeps upper middle-class riddl’n children with jobs when they can’t possible qualify for jobs in the open market place, is a good example of where the “open range” web posting is all about. It’s remarkable that people who are actually opinion leaders, and can have reasonable judgement, but don’t, allow their names to be hung up with the likes of Sourcewatch, and the variety of verbal assault websites as if the management of intelligence has gone under the radar. For example, I would have to believe that Stanton Glantz of UCSF has a bit more intelligence than to mismanage the garbage that comes into the so-called “Legacy” library. For one, I don’t believe that “Dr” Glantz (he has a Ph.D.) is playing fair – as if he had been in his tobacco research program – and he just gets worse. That doesn’t mean that Glantz is absolutely a greedy little monster of an academic, but he’s at his best in the opportunistic world of “I did it, it’s mine, and I can distort the facts and the truth by posting it on the web.” Hey, this guy is a scientist. He’s had grants and done scientific studies using public and private funds as an academic for his entire career. But he puts up his name in the same unconditional disambiguous platform for inaccuracy and bad journalism and he’s part of the problem of truth-telling. He believes in it for science. But when it comes to his “public relations”, Glantz is a disaster and an ego-maniac. You can agree with Glantz as an icon of sorts for his work in side-stream tobacco, but he put up the so-called “Legacy Tobacco Documents Library,” and, if he had a tiny bit of honesty left, he should know that he can’t simply “lift” in the sense of stealing, documents that aren’t his to use. Of course, the most significant documentation is already timeless, stolen, and part of a world record. I don’t blame him for his giant ego. I think he can keep his ego, but, if he continues to compromise his honesty by falsely using Sourcewatch, Legacy, Center for Media Democracy, it’s shameful.
The CCF, as written about in Sourcewatch, may be an awful “front group”, but Sourcewatch, in hawking slander and defamation in it’s “history”, will invariably have to get it’s act together, fire the SOB’s who edit and write biographies picked from good journalism (hiding that with footnotes), and pretending there is a particular sanity to their form of journalism, their means of hawking lies, and their complete ignorance of checking their own value system when it out’s “the truth”. I suppose, in the web world, it would be just fine and dandy if some of the freeloaders who work for Sourcewatch had to submit to an intelligence test on what they write, or edit, they’d come up just fine. On that level, because they obviously allow just about anyone to “put out” in their forum, mendacity and plain lies just don’t matter. Stanton Arnold Glantz, Ph.D., if you had any honor in that high moral superiority you hold so dear in tobacco slashing, and in your published work’s research, how can you let your ego get the best of you and be respected for your work in any science. Should I put on site some sort of personal attacks in the form of biographical material that calls to the public’s attention in the sanctuary of “web journalism” ideas that are impliedly rank and immature? Can’t you, at least, keep people such as Bob Burton, your so-called “web editor” honest? Do your puppies who work at American Legacy recognize that it’s time to fact-check what they write at the expense of getting personally sued for slander? I mean, – I can’t say that Bob Burton, whomever that may be, runs around in high heels every Thursday and footnote it as if it’s truly accurate. Or can I? Is this free-range journalism good to go, and is there any question that might want to be fact checked before I destroy your own personal relationships with trash? Or does that overly sensitive academic self continue to hide under the self-deceit of liers and cheats. By the way, your funding source may be going into the trash. Mississippi mud just turned in the sentence for one of your helpmates so the cash flow may be interrupted for a bit. Dickie Scruggs was sentenced to 5 years in Federal prison. I don’t know how his bagman can write checks to the “health” community if he’s bothered by personal considerations while sitting in the slammer, and he probably will leave some of those promises at the jailhouse door.
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