Dear CCI Friends!
Regarding my printing of the “Gorky Park/Golden Gate Park” article I sent out by Harvard Professor Matthew Bunn, many of you have really ‘raked me over the coals’ (as my Kentucky father would say)! I have not previously had so much protest to an article as this one … my first admonishment came from Professor Steve Cohen.
Thank you for caring about the truth … and thank you for making me realize that I am getting so accustomed to reading these verbiages such as… “Putin is a thug,” “Putin meddles in our elections,” “when Putin invaded Georgia,” “when Russia invaded Crimea,” … by people whom I know KNOW BETTER, that I don’t even stop to question it. The remainder of Bunn’s article was great and may have scored high by many who read it! But he, like others, panders to mainstream newspapers and magazines by using these types of cliches to get more important points in print which otherwise won’t ever be known.
Where have we come to in our country if we feel it necessary to tell a lie in order to get a piece of truth out into the public forum?
And where have I come to that I ignore it and give the writer a pass, knowing that he is trying to bring forth an idea that may jolt others and make them think seriously about issues that need to be exposed?
I personally have never used an untruth to deliver a truth … but I have printed those who have. You have my word, I won’t do it again… unless I immediately disclose that “this false information is here to expose a truth that otherwise would not be circulated.”
Thanks for taking the time to get in touch with me. You have made me a more conscientious American.
http://thehill.com/opinion/national-security/401172-in-gorky-park-with-nuclear-worries
Sharon Tennison
Center for Citizen Initiatives