Couldn’t Help But Notice (110107)
In case anyone is interested, I’ve updated this post in response to concerns about election-law complaints I have filed in the past and my involvement with blogs I don’t run.
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This reporting seems to exaggerate a bit, starting with the headline (”Exports climb as dollar falls, boosting GDP 3.9%”): USA Today’s Barbara Hagenbaugh writes that “A burst in exports was a key contributor to the biggest increase in economic activity in 1½ years.” Oh, come on — Exports are a good thing, but they’re only 10% or so of GDP.
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I think this article refers to the same report Jill at WLST noticed last week, and it bears linking — “Slant seen in ‘08 race coverage.” If you can’t guess which way the slant is, you haven’t been watching.
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Larry Elder has a very interesting take on the rise and fall of Merrill Lynch’s Stanley O’Neal.
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Emmett Tyrell comments on the evolution of journalism in the blog age – or perhaps it’s devolution:
….. why not remind readers of Dan Rather’s aspersions on President George W. Bush’s service in the Texas National Guard? Rather’s evidence obviously was faked, yet Rather is still claiming some sort of Higher Accuracy. Or how about the CNN-Time story from the late 1990s claiming on doubtful evidence that U.S. forces used nerve gas in Laos? A president of NBC News resigned after admitting in 1993 that his “Dateline” report of an exploding General Motors truck was a hoax, and four years later a Pulitzer was conferred on him for, of all things, editorial writing. Perhaps some journalist statute of limitations had passed.
The New York Times, however, deserves special mention for the likes of Jayson Blair, who both plagiarized and fabricated a whole string of stories before being fired in 2003 along with two editors. A year earlier, the paper had to fire a New York Times Magazine writer after the magazine published the writer’s phony story.
….. Perhaps as conservatives continue to break the liberal monopoly, the liberals will raise their journalistic standards. Or maybe they will get worse; most of the aforementioned plagiarisms and hoked up stories took place in recent years.
He didn’t even get to what they decide isn’t newsworthy, or investigation-worthy.
