On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 9:56 AM, Andre Engels andreengels@gmail.com wrote:
So instead we just give in to them? We get attacked and decide to just sit up like a good dog?
No one is acting "like a good dog." Bad metaphor. When your village is attacked and subject to future attacks, you build defenses. (Better metaphor.) All defenses compromise your ability to do something besides defend yourself -- that's the economics of biology. But we can't change the way the world works by denying it.
We dn't just say they're wrong, we join in to congratulate them.
I don't see anyone congratulating Fox except Fox and the usual folks aimed at destroying us anway.
I promise you, this would almost certainly not be an effective counter.
Not towards Fox, but how about other news avenues?
I actually addressed this in my original posting.
but to me, our own ideas and values ... should not be sacrificed to our popularity with a part of our audience.
I agree and posted nothing to the contrary.
Even less should they be sacrificed in a way that is likely to be uneffective (you yourself said that Fox will present whatever we do as a proof of them being right and us being wrong).
See, you even recognize that I already said we won't win over Fox.
--Mike