Lies, Damned Lies & Journalism
In a recent post, On Palin’s Sambo Comment, Manny draws our attention yet again to the main-stream media’s (MSM’s) willingness to publish unverified rumour and innuendo if it happens to suit their generally left-wing political agenda. The latest target is, of course, Sarah Palin, a backwoods yokel who confesses, horror upon horror, to being a Christian and who just happens to be in charge of an administration with some 15,000 employees, net assets of over $US 50 billion and revenues of over $US 14 billion per annum.
By now we’ve become inured to the media’s persistent failure to undertake elementary fact-checks and its constant repetition of falsehoods, especially when reporting on Republicans in the US generally and George W. Bush in particular.