Did Reporters Get Born Yesterday?

The dumbest political controversy this week, a prize that one wins with some difficulty, comes unsurprisingly from the Boston Globe. Michael Kranish found it necessary to breathlessly report that John McCain used a proverb that is so well-known that it has probably appeared on tens of thousands of blogs before yesterday. Somehow, however, Kranish and an unnamed reporter on McCain's beat managed to turn it into a nasty personal attack on Mitt Romney: Full Story »

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Mark Monday
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by Mark Monday - Oct. 1, 2008

As is far too often true of Ed Morrissey, he seems to get too involved in his own hatred of "the left-leaning media." McCain made a comment, it was not made in a vacuum, and if Mr. Morrissey cannot figure that out he probably needs to get a life other than filling the ether with babbling. He clearly doesn't understand journalism, nor what makes news. Maybe a junior college course in Journalism 101 would help him and by extension all of us. I'm sure he has a point of view and perhaps may have some interesting things to say but this piece is yet another example of the fact that the man doesn't know what news is.

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