Is it too late to change names? — United allegedly flew an unsafe plane 23 times

MikeD said:
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Hey, I use that all the time. That's my clip! :) Also, the line from that clip is typically used in the context of someone getting froggy about something inane, insignificant, and/or stupid. This falls into none of those categories if for no reason other than the frequency with which you bring up the subject of "media bias".

So... as much as I appreciate the clip, seriously, what are you saying? Or are you going to continue to dodge, parry, and spin?

I'm not trying to bait you (I mean, you chummed the waters). I really want to know your position and how you intellectually defend it. I'm asking friendly! I'm trying to learn, not fight. :)


Let's go back to the original questions I had for you:
Why do you think this article was biased? Is it that you think this is bad news about our industry, and you just don't like bad news about our industry disseminated? Or is it something else? Please parse this article for me and indicate all the sentences which you believe to be biased and why you believe them to be.

Or, alternately, did your "sarcasm" indicate that you actually do NOT believe the article was biased?

I'm just trying to figure out where you stand. And why. :)
 
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RDoug said:
Unless this is another quote with which I'm unfamiliar, the actual quote was, "Never pick a fight with people who buy ink by the barrel," and the origin of the quote was Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens).
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Doug, you're more correct than I was, but we're both right. I should have done this research (in The Quote Verifier: Who Said What, Where & When.) before applying Carpal Tunnel to keyboard.

The phrase "Ink by the Barrel' was common in the late 19th century. The phrase I attributed to Menken is one version, your Twain version is another. The phrase is most often attributed to Twain, but also to the following laundry list of people: H. L. Menken, Benjamin Franklin, Oscar Wilde, Winston Churchill, Will Rogers, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Bill Clinton, coaches Darrell Royal and Tommy Lasorda. There are presumably many others. Scholars have given up trying to find who was the first one.

One could now add: Electricity by the Kilowatt, and Connectivity by the Megabyte.
 
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