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Oct 28, 2005

Creative Editing

In the NY Times, no less.  Do you think the meaning of Corporal Starr's words changes when you add back the excised portions?

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I find this a little baffling. The Times said he strongly supported the war; the unabridged letter confirms that.

True enough, if you read and digest fully all 4600+ words. But truncating the letter where they did leaves the impression that the letter was mainly about his premonition of his own death, whereas the full letter makes it much more about the value of his work in Iraq as he saw it.

"What media bias?"

The next time I hear that, I think I'm gonna hurl!

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