The Public Editor: The Truth and Alberto Gonzales

Why doesn't The New York Times just come out and say that Attorney General Alberto Gonzales is a liar?

Sometimes, something seems so obvious to many readers -- that Gonzales lied repeatedly -- that they want their newspaper to say it just that plainly, and they're frustrated when it won't.

Take Bob Garfield, co-host of NPR's "On the Media." I was Garfield's guest on last week's program. He told me that he had read all the coverage leading up to Gonzales's resignation and concluded "that the attorney general has been lying through his ... Full Story »

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Jim Lang
4.4
by Jim Lang - Oct. 1, 2008

This is good journalism that lays out one of the standards for good journalism: in a news article give the unskewed facts and let the reader draw conclusions.

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