The Influence of Fools: Why Liberals Are Mad at the MSM

[kentuck]

Great article! Linked from buzzflash.com
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http://www.mediachannel.org/reform/indy115.php

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We’re angry, ladies and gentlemen of the press, because for the last four years you’ve utterly failed to hold our leaders accountable to the truth.

Students of history and those of us of a certain age know this has happened before, and its effects were corrosive. Fifty years ago, responding to the failure of the press to deal with Senator Joe McCarthy’s bullying, Eric Sevareid said:

"Our rigid formulae of so-called objectivity ... have given the lie the same prominence and impact that truth is given; they have elevated the influence of fools to that of wise men; the ignorant to the level of the learned; the evil to the level of the good."

We’re angry, because when journalists make impartiality, objectivity and balance, more important than accuracy, context and truth, then once again you’re failing to fulfill the functions for which you were given First Amendment protections.

...much more

[coloradodem2005]

1. Yup. That they are.

[carnie_sf]

2. Tell the truth

[kentuck]

3. "...impartiality, objectivity and balance, more important than ..."

...accuracy, context and truth,..."

That is the FOX influence, it seems. Fair and balanced, as always.

[thecrow]

4. Great article!!! n/t