At this pivotal moment in American history, the major U.S. news media is back to its old game of drawing sweeping character judgments about a presidential candidate based on misleading "quotes," a sickening replay of other recent elections. Full Story »
Posted by Margaret Yonco-Haines
A blistering article critical of Washington Post's Dana Milbank's distortion of an Obama's quote, twisting it to call him "a persumptuous nominee". Her distortion was parroted and expanded on by other media. The article finishes with an examination of how the media smeared Al Gore. At issue is the wretched practice of journalists to pick up sensational tidbits without bothering to check their validity, which used to be called research or verifying the facts, and spreading them throughout the media. Why let the truth get in the way? Sensationalism sells papers or gets higher ratings. Sadly it's democracy which is the loser.
