The "fantastic job" Newsweek's Richard Wolffe claims he is doing

At the National Press Club last night, White House spokesman Tony Snow sat down for a chat with what appeared to be some of his best friends -- our nation's elite "journalists" assigned to the White House -- and they all sat around amicably bemoaning how terribly unfair the criticism is that is directed at them by blogs (h/t Atrios). Apparently, one of the most pressing media problems in America is . . . that bloggers demand too much of the national ... Full Story »

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Jim Lang
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by Jim Lang - Oct. 1, 2008

This blog post, seething with outrage, mocks Richard Wolffe's claim that he is doing a fantastic job by reprinting several of Wolffe's articles that pass on without question inaccurate information fed to him by government sources. The criticism is well documented -- over and over again. While the blog post skips over a journalist's need to maintain access to sources, it does an excellent job of demonstrating Wolffe's lack of skepticism, his failure to dig and, finally, his failure to recognize that those missing attributes are essential to good reporting.

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