DID YOU ALL NOTICE what got CENSORED from the SF Chron LTTE???????????

[Land Shark]

Reply 6 in this thread is the original text of sfexpat's letter to the editor, and another thread contains the actual published letter:

see reply 6
<http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=203x418487#418496>

To make it easy, here's the

ANSWER: "Hamas uses a more secure election system than we do."

[IndyOp]

1. I don't think your link takes me to where you thought it would...

Something about an LTTE?

:shrug:

[Kurovski]

3. It's sfexpat's reply#6, you have to scootch around a bit .

However, there is no link to the published letter that I can locate.

[Land Shark]

6. The letter as published in actuality can be found here

<http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=203x419011> (another DU link with a SF Chron link in the body)

[fed-up]

2. Facts aren't allowed in LTTEs :) nt

[Kurovski]

4. Now, I'n SURE it was MERELY a matter of space.

I'm CERTAIN they were HEARTBROKEN with having to edit it out.

[Land Shark]

5. From 125 words to 116 words, dropping 9 words can mean a lot you know....

[Kurovski]

7. Oh my, but yes!

Nine words certainly do take up a lot of room, and never more so than when they mean a lot.

[IndyOp]

8. Kick to kick the SF Chron for censoring!!!

[nicknameless]

9. Huh? Why the censoring?

Wonder if they would have censored:
"Elections in the US are so corrupt that Jimmy Carter stated that his group, if asked, would decline to observe them."

Where does the SF Chron draw the line when it comes to telling the truth?


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[furrball]

10. What is "LTTE" ? eom

[Land Shark]

11. LTTE = Letter To The Editor n/t

[Wilms]

12. Ah, But they did leave "opacity" in there.

:bounce:

[Land Shark]

13. four syllables in opacity, seven letters total

[EFerrari]

14. They've published about 12 LTTEs o mine and this is the first time

they have changed a word. :eyes: