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"Journalist Bites Reality!"

The latest edition of Skeptic Magazine has an incredible article proving the author's case that "broadcast journalism is flawed in such a fundamental way that its utility as a tool for informing viewers is almost nil." Here's a preview:  We think we know Big Journalism?s faults by its much ballyhooed lapses ? its scandals, gaffes, and breakdowns ? as well as by a recent spate of insider tell-alls. When Dan Rather goes public with a sensational expose based on bogus documents; when the Atlanta Journal Constitution wrongly labels Richard Jewell the Olympic Park bomber; when Dateline resorts to rigging explosive charges to the gas tanks of "unsafe" trucks that, in Dateline?s prior tests, stubbornly refused to explode on their own; when the New York Times' Jayson Blair scoops other reporters working the same story by quoting sources who don't exist ? We see these incidents as atypical, the exceptions that prove the rule...continue to full post

Full post as published by Crime & Federalism on May 27, 2008 (boomark / email).