This opening paragraph from The Future of News blog would probably cause Hugh Hewitt to say “told ya so!”
He’s frequently challenged the MSM’s reporters to own up to their biases.
Romenesko reports on a shocking survey that ought to end the debate about whether journalism should continue its century-old ideal of objectivity, or move to a model of multiple partisan outlets engaged in honest argumentation.
Neo-Neocon has a thought-provoking post up about the cleverness (or is it sophistry) of liberal intellectuals:
Ah, those clever literary intellectuals!
For quite a while now Ive been impressed by the fact that leading literary lights, for all their creativity and art, can be very dim bulbs indeed when dealing with certain other aspects of human endeavor.
Maybe Jonah Goldberg has a point in his new book, Liberal Fascism.
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I knew it wouldn’t take someone long to find the first weakness in the libelous story the NYT told about the murder rate in the military.
Winds of Change.NET does it in a post called “The Media Does It Again”
Now, how does that compare with the population as a whole?
Turning to the DoJ statistics, we see that the US offender rate for homicide in the 18 - 24 yo range is 26.5/100,000.For 25 - 34, it’s 13.5/100,000.
See the problem?
Damn, is it that hard for reporters and their editors to provide a little bit of context so we can make sense of the anecdotes? It’s not in Part 1 of the article. And I’ll bet it won’t be in the future articles, either.
This report stinks of distortion. I can recall from memory that of the several “atrocity” charges made over the past couple of years, none of them has turned out to be what the press (and some politicians) have claimed at the beginning.
Yellow sheet journalism at its worst. Disgusting!
Report: 121 veterans linked to killings - Yahoo! News
NEW YORK - At least 121 Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans have committed a killing or been charged in one in the United States after returning from combat, The New York Times reported Sunday.
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