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]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]] SMEARING TELLER [[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[
The ultimate slime from the New York Slimes
On 21 April 1983, world-renowned scientist Edward Teller testi-
fied on the moral and scientific advantages of replacing a retaliatory
defense with a protective one -- one of America's fundamental pro-
blems, and one most people don't even know of. But when the boob-tube
cameras crowded in on Teller, they were not interested in America's
problems. They were interested in some dirty slander scribbled by one
of the worms creeping in the New York Slimes and printed on their
front page.
Teller allegedly had bought some stock in a company... well,
let's not go into this absurdity of no importance other than its
viciousness. If you do want the refutation of this filth, look up the
full-page ad in the Wall Street Journal of 31 May 1983 in your lib-
rary. Teller's own news release and total refutation was not, of
course, printed by the Slimes, and so Accuracy in Media had to pay
$72,531 for the ad to penetrate the censorhip of the press (AIM is an
organization well worthy of your support, 1341 G St/#312, Washington,
DC 20005; they will send you the ad, but if you can, please contribute
to this horrendous expense.)
You will find AIM's ad and newsletter fully illuminating; but let
us pursue a different angle: How can you recognize these falsehoods
and slanders for what they are on the very first day they are printed?
How can you recognize them when AIM does not pay $72,000 for a page's
worth of freedom of the press?
No, not by the paper alone: The New York Slimes are so unreliable
that you cannot even bank on them ALWAYS lying. Nor are all of their
reporters dishonest, though the honest ones make no major editorial
decisions.
There are several ways, but in this case one is sufficient: moti-
vation. What would motivate a man like Teller to play the stockmarket
to make a couple of crummy kilobucks, or a million for that matter?
This year, Edward Teller celebrated his 75th birthday. He spends
his time working with students, advising scientists, writing books, but
most of all traveling and telling people how to prevent war: He can
reach them only personally, because the censors of the American press
deny him a voice.
One reason why he does not need any money is that he would have
no time to spend it. What would he do with a million dollars? Buy
himself a diamond-studded umbrella that makes instant cocoa by voice
command? The things that money can buy for others -- time on the golf
course, more time with his grandchildren -- he could have for free.
All he would have to do is lose his dedication.
To the contrary, what might be the motivation of the dwarf who
scribbled the piece? If nothing else, upward mobility in the Slimes.
To see how that is achieved, look at the articles of those who
achieved it: Tom Wicker, Anthony Lewis, for example. AtE readers know
how the reporters from "Science" make it to the big dailies: printing
old wives' tales about radiation, but concealing that same radiation
from radon in energy-efficient homes, then suddenly turning dubious
and rejecting all evidence when it comes to Soviet-made Yellow Rain.
That was the recent case of Nicholas Wade and others before him;
Marshall Elliot is still strenuously working at his promotion.
Motivation or its absence will reveal things immediately, but
they are then further confirmed by the perpetrators themelves. What
reason was there to censor Teller's press release? When an AtE reader
wrote to the Slimes, they replied with irrelevant quibbles that might
even be true -- just as it is true that "Gerth [the author of the
piece] has not been convicted of stealing from orphanages in more
than two cases."
He probably thinks that smearing requires special talents.
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