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You make the assumption that his 'attack' on the Guardian's reporting is in essence support of the American military's / White House's position.

To use a loaded example, would you say that someone railing against Stalin was a supporter of Hitler? Probably not.



Actually, I don't make that assumption at all.

The article in the Guardian is not done by a fly by night newspaper without any credibility. The newspaper was started in 1821 and is considered a leading newspaper. It does identify itself as a liberal voice but so what. When did reading about the life experience of a UAV analyst who actually provides some real context to her discussion by providing external links become a source of manipulation and a "biased" view. Frankly, I learned more about UAW operations from her article than any release done by the "official" sources. There is no reason for me to believe that Heather is not who she says she is or that she was influenced into saying what she says.

It's not about taking sides on the drone issue. It's about an article being attacked that was written as commentary by someone who is a thousand times closer to the situation than most of us ever will be. I will gladly read more of these. If Heather stated how great drone attacks were, my thoughts would still stand. Let's have all the information out there without attaching the information as manipulation or biased. Personally, I would like to decide what's manipulative and biased without being told so.


CBS is not a fly-by-night operation either, yet they have screwed up stories before (e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killian_documents_controversy).




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