Comments on: Truth and the Gunfighters

By: Tarawa Baker

Tarawa Baker — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 18:41:13 +0000

I loved Saturday Evening Post as a child. It’s arrival was looked for with great anticipation on the farm where ai lived. I am glad that it’s voice is still with us in this new form, the internet.

Saturday Evening Post is a reflection of the America that millions came here to be a part of. Too many naysayers are trying to wipe out the America that was by harsh judgementalism. If you were not there, you do not know what they withstood. Unfairness happened. It still does in modern times. We are no better. And they built something. What have you built?

By: Deuxb

Deuxb — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 17:25:39 +0000

Agree with Jesuit in previous post. Modern Journalism is full of self serving, poorly researched material. Often it is made up material rather than pinned by solid information. Ethics seem to be a stranger to current journalism. Too often the source is the internet which has as many tall tales mixed in with truth as did the Wild West in its heyday.

By: Jesuit

Jesuit — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 00:34:23 +0000

Entertaining article.

Disagree, however, with the statement: “Journalistic standards on the Western frontier were not quite our own.” I don’t know how things were in the thirties, but today’s “journalistic standards,” unfortunately, seem an awful lot like the thinly disguised agendas and shameless embellishments of our cowboy days.