The Nerve!
I think we all can agree that today’s journalists are about as useless as tits on a boar hog. Not a day goes by that people aren’t dying in Iraq. Not a day goes by that the Bush administration doesn’t lie to us. Not a day goes by…. etc.
But many a day goes by that stories like the above go ignored. Instead, we get to hear all about the big barbecue at McCain’s ranch.
So you can see how I’d be upset about the following ego stroke:
At Sparkly Newseum, The Glory Of the Story Goes Above the Fold
The new incarnation of the Newseum is dazzling, innovative and absorbing, a first-class addition to the capital’s cultural institutions.
It is also, in some respects, an overpriced monument to journalistic self-glorification. Not that there’s anything wrong with that.
There’s plenty wrong with that!
There are, however, some bright spots though… sorta:
In a corner of one narrow exhibit case are panels devoted to out-and-out liars: Janet Cooke of The Washington Post, Stephen Glass of the New Republic, Jayson Blair of the New York Times and Jack Kelley of USA Today. Each gets a paragraph or so. So does Judith Miller, whose badly flawed Times reports on Saddam Hussein’s supposed weapons of mass destruction are briefly described under the headline “When Anonymous Sources Are Wrong.” Media critic Bernard Goldberg’s book “Bias” graces another case, along with a picture of a protesters’ banner: “No More Media Lies!” And there are a series of mistaken headlines, from newspapers prematurely awarding the 2000 election to George W. Bush to the botched New York Post scoop that John Kerry had picked Dick Gephardt as his running mate.
