Comments on: Mudslinging American-Style http://themoderatevoice.com/18111/mudslinging-american-style/ An Internet hub with domestic and international news, analysis, original reporting, and popular features from the left, center, indies, centrists, moderates, and right Mon, 28 May 2012 10:59:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: DLS http://themoderatevoice.com/18111/mudslinging-american-style/comment-page-1/#comment-145322 DLS Sat, 01 Mar 2008 00:17:09 +0000 http://themoderatevoice.com/at-tmv/newsweek-blogitics/18111/mudslinging-american-style/#comment-145322 No fuse? <br><br>ha ha ha No fuse?

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]]> By: domajot http://themoderatevoice.com/18111/mudslinging-american-style/comment-page-1/#comment-145321 domajot Fri, 29 Feb 2008 16:53:56 +0000 http://themoderatevoice.com/at-tmv/newsweek-blogitics/18111/mudslinging-american-style/#comment-145321 This article comes from Austria, a country about whose political manners I know nothing. Other countries, like France, Ebgland and Italy, can't claim that their political arenas are the reserve for gentlemanly discourse, however. One has only to tune into England's Parliamentary sessions on C-Span to witness how commonplace evertything is. from innuento to open insults <br>Political gossip and skewed charaterizations are as popular overseas as they are here, and the press has no advantage over the US in objectivity.<br><br>We are not exceptional when it comes to smears and mud-slinging. The area where we have differed concerns the role that private lives, romance and religion, play in political wars. Now, with Sarkozy, even that gap may be closing.<br><br>While it is essential for Americans to be informed about how we are seen in other countres, we must remember that the way we are seen often has a cartoon-like character: a kernel of truth is presented without nuance or context., and it reflects as much about the cartoonist's own opinions as it does about his subject.<br><br>In this regard, I note that the press of other countries repeats US political allegations and mud-slinging as 'fact', but withour fact-checking, as readily as does the press in the US. This article comes from Austria, a country about whose political manners I know nothing. Other countries, like France, Ebgland and Italy, can't claim that their political arenas are the reserve for gentlemanly discourse, however. One has only to tune into England's Parliamentary sessions on C-Span to witness how commonplace evertything is. from innuento to open insults
Political gossip and skewed charaterizations are as popular overseas as they are here, and the press has no advantage over the US in objectivity.

We are not exceptional when it comes to smears and mud-slinging. The area where we have differed concerns the role that private lives, romance and religion, play in political wars. Now, with Sarkozy, even that gap may be closing.

While it is essential for Americans to be informed about how we are seen in other countres, we must remember that the way we are seen often has a cartoon-like character: a kernel of truth is presented without nuance or context., and it reflects as much about the cartoonist's own opinions as it does about his subject.

In this regard, I note that the press of other countries repeats US political allegations and mud-slinging as 'fact', but withour fact-checking, as readily as does the press in the US.

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