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Originally Posted by roachboy
fugly dear, i didn't write the article that appeared in rolling stone.
mike taibbi, who did write the piece, works in the "new journalism" style that's been "new" since hunter s. thompson pioneered it (in rolling stone).
the research is solid, the methodology folded into the piece.
your "objection" is basically that the style of writing doesn't appeal to your prudish sensibility.
then don't read it.
it's of no consequence to me, your "taste".
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To me, it makes the writer look unproffesional if he's calling people "turds" and "windbags." The only place I could see insults like that being used and not immediately object to it would be in an editorial, which the article you posted is not.
Journalism is (or should be) unbiased and fair. That article is not journalism.