[governance] A false consensus is broken

Avri Doria avri at acm.org
Fri Dec 21 14:08:24 EST 2012




On 21 Dec 2012, at 10:13, michael gurstein wrote:

> Or Parminder used/quoted colourful journalistic language in a journalistic medium...
> 
> Anyway, why this pre-occupation with one perhaps infelicitous turn of (journalistic/diplomatic?) phrase ... Is this the US Congress/Fox News where a fairly comprehensible mispeak can lead to a total "gothcha" pre-occupation (the Benghazi "discussions") for purely political purposes to the exclusion of substantive debate...


It is simple:

Because you are not permitted to have your own facts.

avri


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