You can't believe anything you read in the papers

The New York Sun publishes something true and useful – there’s a first time for everything – about the NSA’s semi-secret seminars given to ‘journalists’ between 2002 and 2004 on how to avoid telling the truth, as if ‘journalists’ needed any help in that regard.  Oddly enough, none of the attendees can remember attending.  The NSA must have slipped them one of those new selective amnesia drugs!  This reminds me of the story, from the Angry Arab News Service, of how, during the illegal American attack on the people of Iraq, Lebanese military, together with American officials (the CIA?), camped out in the offices of the Daily Star in Beirut, and made sure nobody dared print the truth about American violence.  Is it any wonder that people now go to the internet for their news?  The internet is full of nonsense, but at least some of what you can read there is true.