I’m talking about this…
CNN Breaking News
From: CNN Breaking News (BreakingNews@mail.cnn.com)
Sent: Thu 2/18/10 3:15 PM
To: textbreakingnews@ema3lsv06.turner.com
– Iran may be working on secretly developing a nuclearwarhead for a missile, IAEA draft report says.
I don’t think I’ve ever seen such thinly-veiled bullshit from so “reputable” a source in my entire life. It’s official: I’ve lost what little faith I had left in the establishment.
Check, please.
Oh, yeh, I happened to catch Rick Sanchez interrupt his breathless reporting of the Texas IRS plane attack to breathlessly report on this stunning development, with a side order of sniping at the Obama administration.
Wait, what? The IAEA isn’t a reputable source?
That shit wouldn’t even be allowed in Wikipedia, fer crissake.
Wiki-fucking-pedia has more integrity than CNN. Who woulda guessed?
I don’t get it. Are you saying they may not be working on secretly devloping a nuke?
I mean, I thought everyone already just assumed they were; isn’t that the point of sanctions and everything? To get them to not do that?
Winston, buddy, please explain how this is propaganda. I’m just not getting it. Multiple news sources are reporting the same thing as CNN. The IAEA report DOES say that Iran may be working on nukes. How is this “propaganda”?
About all we know for sure is that the Iranian government is in the hands of some very bad and quite possibly deranged people. Its a good bet that they are lying at any given moment.
But are they lying when they suggest they are within a hairs-breadth of having nukes, and the world should tremble before their huge badassedness? Or are they lying when they say they are but timid woodland creatures, foraging for nuts, berries, and plutonium?
So that’s where Bush got off to?
I had been wondering why we never hear about him here in America anymore.
Right, but the information isn’t coming from Iran. It’s coming from an IAEA draft report.
Perhaps the more correct term is “speculation”, rather than “information”.
Exactly.
I think the thing that’s being missed here is the OP thinks it’s the kind of “may” that’s always true about anything; the sense that anything is possible, therefore that this or that “may” be happening goes without saying. In that sense, sure, it’s not news.
However, that’s not the case. The news story is reporting the results of an active investigation. If the investigation determined there was no evidence that Iran is messing with nukes, that would have been the headline. However, as far as I can gather from a cursory skim, what’s newsworthy here is that an active investigation has determined that there is some evidence, although inconclusive at this stage, that Iran may in fact actually be messing with nukes.
That’s newsworthy. It’s not the end of the story, of course, but it’s newsworthy that an active investigation has found enough evidence that it remains a serious possibility.
FoxNews “reports” it too. And by “-”, I mean the associated press.
Iran may be building an army of giant robots with laser beams for eyes. I fail to see why no one seems at all concerned by this alarming development.
If it is still a draft report, that means it is still incomplete and all the facts are not in yet. So maybe Iran is working on a nuke. Then again, maybe they aren’t. Or maybe they aren’t but want potential enemies to think they have the capability (clattering swords and banging on shields) in some sort of macho threat display. Or maybe they want us to scare ourselves while they say and do nothing.
Maybe is a whole lot of nothing. Maybe I’m the Joker. Maybe not. Same difference.
Well, because there is no evidence of this (i.e. you made it up), while, sadly (for some) there seem to actually BE some evidence that they are developing nukes. I am also not seeing the outrage of the OP here…seems like a perfectly news worthy story, especially considering that CNN is hardly the only one reporting it. Or, to turn it around, why is it that some don’t seem to want to hear about this?
-XT
If it’s propaganda, who the hell is it supposed to benefit?
I guess my reaction is a rational one…
Keep an eye on them, but make sure we get the facts. There is a difference between being wary/cautious and going into a full blown panic.
Well, I’m certainly not advocating we panic. However, I really do like it when my news agency of choice (which CNN is) keeps me informed of these little details. Even if it IS preliminary, I want to know how things are, you know, developing.
-XT
Absolutely.