Path: ccsf.homeunix.org!ccsf.homeunix.org!news1.wakwak.com!nf1.xephion.ne.jp!onion.ish.org!gcd.org!vda-gw!news.moat.net!cox.net!news-xfer.cox.net!p01!fed1read02.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail From: Hifumi Subject: Re: =?iso-2022-jp?B?GyRCJVUlOD88TGslIiVLJWElaiU5JUgbKEI=?= Ver.1.0 Newsgroups: news.admin.net-abuse.email,fj.rec.animation References: <41B44215.7147E8CD@dd.iij4u.or.jp> <41B5DD08.D66D095D@fsinet.or.jp> Message-ID: <47F18AE2.25302E1A@fsinet.or.jp> User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.4) Gecko/20011019 Netscape6/6.2 Lines: 33 Date: Sat, 11 Dec 2004 18:54:44 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 68.108.19.241 X-Complaints-To: abuse@cox.net X-Trace: fed1read02 1102801681 68.108.19.241 (Sat, 11 Dec 2004 16:48:01 EST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 11 Dec 2004 16:48:01 EST Organization: Cox Communications Xref: ccsf.homeunix.org fj.rec.animation:2844 on The Target Is Destroyed. Certainly, one of the most ridiculous statements made by Hersh would be music to Loomis' ears. Hersh's Holy Grail on the assassination conspiracy, the cinching piece of the puzzle, would be "a reel of tape of Oswald getting briefed by Giancana" (Anson p. 120). With what serious people have learned about Oswald today, through work by Phil Melanson, John Newman, and John Armstrong, this is preposterous. The Blakey-Davis whim about the Mafia hiring a "hit man" who couldn't hit the side of a barn and used a $12.95 bolt action rifle to do the job, went out the window when the HSCA closed down. But "crack" reporter Hersh still buys into it. As he does the idea that Sirhan killed Bobby Kennedy, proven by the fact that he wrote a blurb praising Dan Moldea's 1995 whitewash of that case. Behind all the sordid details of these articles there is a bigger picture to be outlined. One of the main parts of it is the increasing ascendancy of tabloid journalism into the major media outlets, and with it, its concomitant attachment to the lives of celebrities. More often than not, that translates into the endless search for sleaze and scandal. This chain on the lives of the Kennedys has been well described in these articles. The overall tendency has become so prevalent that, as many have noted, tabloid sales in the U.S. have declined of late because the mainstream media have now bowed to these tendencies so much that much of their news has seeped over, thereby blurring the lines between the two. In my view, some of the milestones in this trend have been examined in this article: in the nonfiction book field it would be the Collier-Horowitz book; in magazine journalism, the Kitty Kelley article on Exner; in television, the 1985 Rivera contr