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irresponsible "journalism"

2006-12-13 11:57:32.999733+01 by Dan Lyke 0 comments

Wanna know what a troll looks like? Washington Post eulogizes Augusto Pinochet:

It's hard not to notice, however, that the evil dictator leaves behind the most successful country in Latin America. In the past 15 years, Chile's economy has grown at twice the regional average, and its poverty rate has been halved.

Yeah, and since Ceausescu was deposed in Romania I'm sure that amazing things have happened to that economy, too! I watched Michael Bauer's weblog over at SFGate.com until I became convinced that he was deliberately shit-stirring and trolling for comments, but I wonder if major papers sometimes publish stupid crap like this simply because doofuses like me will link to it, thereby driving traffic their direction?

If so, I have been trolled.

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