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With journalists being laid off in droves, savvy political operatives have stepped eagerly into the breach. What’s most troubling is not that TV-news producers mistake their work for journalism, which is bad enough, but that young people drawn to journalism increasingly see no distinction between disinterested reporting and hit-jobbery. The very smart and capable young men (more on them in a moment) who actually dug up and initially posted the Sotomayor ... Full Story »
Posted by Kaizar Campwala
This piece describes how the featured blogger cherry-picked tasty morsels from Justice Sotomayor's off-the-record recorded remarks and broadcast them with never a thought about asking someone who knows the law about their context. And all of the TV news networks lapped it up. All of this is inexcusable. Sadly, it's also not isolated to this particular case. The inmates clearly are now in charge of our asylum,...