[thechat] Bowling for Columbine

Bob Davis bob at bobdavis.org
Tue Jan 28 21:34:01 CST 2003


On Tuesday, January 28, 2003, at 08:53  PM, Lachlan Cannon wrote:

> Bob Davis wrote:
>> Read the papers.
>>
>> Our criminals are not nice people.
>>
>> bob
>
> You mean these reliable sources:
>
> <snip>
>
> [from <http://www.bowlingforcolumbine.com/library/fear/03.php>]
>
> I can see why you'd believe their reporting on criminals... I mean they
> obviously don't sensationalise the news at all...

Your argument doesn't make any sense.

Is news sensationalized? Yes.
Everyone knows that.

Does that discount the realities? No.

When I lived in DC, I read about someone getting killed every day. Was
it the front page? No. Did it happen? Yes.

As for citing reliable sources...we are discussing a Michael Moore
movie, aren't we?

I'd be pretty careful about using anything he says as proof of an
argument I was constructing.

bob




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