Taranto: More ‘Accountability Journalism’
BEST OF THE WEB TODAY, By JAMES TARANTO:
In June we noted that the Associated Press had embraced a new idiom called “accountability journalism.” The AP’s Ron Fournier explained that the venerable wire service, long known for its just-the-facts style of reporting, now aimed to be “provocative,” telling readers not only what happened “but why it happened,” “what it might mean,” and “what it might reveal about the people who presume to be our leaders,” who “sometimes” are “just plain wrong.”
Yet he promised the AP would somehow do this without editorializing or becoming partisan. How well has it done? Here are a few examples.