Really? As Matt Yglesias points out , it's pretty clear how the media should treat these ads that they know to be dishonest. Use them to accurately create a pattern of dishonesty by John McCain's campaign. If Obama was putting out lies about McCain, how fast do you think the media would figure a way out of that "conundrum"? It's not like they have anything else to do here... Full Story »
Posted by Randy Morrow
Very good journalism about the antics reporters get up to when they've surrendered their scruples, abandoned the pursuit of truth and face a roomful of equally unengaged clones. Joe Scarborough is perhaps the worst, but clearly courtesy was given short shrift among journalists at the DNC yesterday. The other news, about media outlets running McCain's scurrilous ads for free (and Obama's scarcely at all) was definitely worth reading, if only because anger is a good incentive to improve.
