Comments on Fried Bagels - Fried Blogles: Flipflopping in the Modern Media Age

I know it was a hoax. I read about the "pact" and ...

2008-09-08T20:36:00.000-04:00

I know it was a hoax. I read about the "pact" and its debunking just a couple of days later. However, your comments were about the response to the pact, not the actual act.

I can't comment on Palin's history or acts in office: I simply haven't researched her. To be honest, both sides in this election seem to be making empty promises. The only choice is whether you want promises of bigger

My greatest hope is that it will force politicians...

2008-09-08T11:51:00.000-04:00

My greatest hope is that it will force politicians to either stand behind their words or to have good reasons to change their minds. After all, if you know that the world KNOWS what you said last week, you'll be more inclined to say what you mean, rather than say what you think people want to hear today.

That's the optimistic view...but I'm more cynical; I suspect it will lead to

Oh, and on flip-flopping about teenage pregnancy: ...

2008-09-07T13:50:00.000-04:00

Oh, and on flip-flopping about teenage pregnancy: I DO think it's a despicable thing that several teenage girls got in to a "pregnancy pact", and I think their parents DID fail them. I also think that Bristol's pregnancy isn't the end of the world.

How are these stances consistent? Simple: Bristol didn't set out to get pregnant. Those girls did. Bristol will almost certainly not end up

The beauty of the modern information age is that m...

2008-09-07T13:45:00.000-04:00

The beauty of the modern information age is that more and more of this information is available to everyone, not just the news media.

In the past, it was largely the news media who controlled access to information, and unethical newsmen could control a story so that it made good men look like fools and fools look intelligent.

Just like with the music business, which used to be