Reply #21: It would be better to focus on the authors at antiwar.com...

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that are publishing those questionable stories there. I wouldn't mind those being banned, but banning all of antiwar.com seems a bit excessive. I get the feeling that anti-war.com perhaps at times is a bit looser in who it allows to publish for them than other news sites, but then again, that's how we get some stories that simply are being muzzled every place else. And some of those stories need to be discussed. I have no trouble with perhaps making a requirement that any story link from anti-war.com is coupled with a qualifier that some stories this site publishes might not have the strict journalistic rules that others do, and that one should "read them at their own risk", or something to that effect.

But there are many stories by folks like Chris Deliso or Scott Horton at anti-war.com that really need to be looked at and are some excellent pieces. As a matter of fact I believe one of the main organizations like Reuters or UPI not too long ago released a correction that made sure to identify material they lifted from Deliso to be accredited appropriately. If the mainstream news sources use anti-war.com published material for their content, then it seems like there should be some room for us to point to them at times. I certainly will not point to something that is anti-semitic, but if it is critical about AIPAC or something like that in a constructive way, I really think that is something that we should be able to read!

It's kind of a pain at times trying to find another site that has the same story posted on anti-war.com so as not to get it pulled.