An open letter to Charlie Gibson and George Stephanapoulos

Philadelphia Inquirer by Will Bunch | Apr. 17, 2008 (Opinion)

With your performance tonight -- your focus on issues that were at best trivial wastes of valuable airtime and at worst restatements of right-wing falsehoods, punctuated by inane "issue" questions that in no way resembled the real world concerns of American voters -- you disgraced my profession of journalism, and, by association, me and a lot of hard-working colleagues who do still try to ferret out the truth, rather than worry about who can give us the ... Full Story »

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by Patricia L'Herrou - Oct. 1, 2008

a passionate rebuke to two mainstream media news reporters/commentators for how they conducted an important presidential candidate debate. whether the reader agrees or disagrees with the rebuke, it's not difficult to show that so often the media fails in its primary job: in this case to aid millions of voters by providing the information that's vital for them in making a choice for the leader of this nation. what seems hard to do is figure out how to make that happen. mr. bunch does offer some ideas about that.