Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/02/28

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Subject: RE: [Leica] In you heart you know Jim Brick is correct
From: Walter S Delesandri <walt@jove.acs.unt.edu>
Date: Sun, 28 Feb 1999 10:40:00 -0600 (CST)

Hehehehe....just let these same "unsubstantiated allegations" be 
made against a Republican senator from the "old south", and 
watch the "professional" media go into a goddamn feeding frenzy....


On Sun,
28 Feb 1999, B. D. Colen wrote:

> 
> Bill Erfurth wrote
> >>Or, those 'paragon's of journalistic objectivity' at NBC News who
> tried to kill the Broaddrick Rape Story by sitting on it?
> 
> Come-on Carl, open your mind...you have been reading the New York Time
> too long.<<
> 
> 1. Because there are no corroborating witnesses whose testimony is not
> either in dispute or highly suspect; because there is no physical evidence;
> because there is no proof the accussor and accussee were ever in the hotel
> in question, much less in the same room on the same day and at the same
> time; because, while the accusor can remember the most incredibly minute
> details, but not the day, month, or time of the year; because the alleged
> crime occured 21 years ago; we will never know whether Broadrrick's
> allegations - and remeber, they are allegations and there used to be a
> presumption of innocence in this country - are true or not.
> 
> 2. NBC was correct not to run the story and wrong to run it. If one applies
> any basic journalistic standards to the story thus far, it was not ready to
> run. A responsible media outlet does not run 21-year-old allegations of an
> alleged crime that was never reported, and could never be prosecuted because
> the statute of limitations ran out 14 years ago with having what at least
> looks like PROOF that the crime even took place.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Bill
> 
> 
> 
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