LOSING OBJECTIVITY
By Hugh Hewitt
Beyond the News
In a startling example of how unreliable and ideologically-driven mainstream media has become, The New York Times recently ran with a photo of what it said were the remains of a "missile" in the Pakistan village where American intelligence had hoped to find the criminal Zawahiri. But the photo turned out to be a crude fraud: It was really just an old artillery shell, instantly recognized as such by even amateurs.
The New York Times did not recognize the fraud for the same reason that the Los Angeles Times didn't recognize an April Fools' prank as such and went with a quote from the joke on a front-page story about endangered species, and for the same reason that CBS fell for the fake documents during the 2004 presidential election: The elite mainstream media wants to believe some stories so badly that it abandons even the thinnest veneer of distance.
This is left-wing agenda journalism. The sooner a repair project founded on balance and fairness gets underway, the better.
Beyond the News
In a startling example of how unreliable and ideologically-driven mainstream media has become, The New York Times recently ran with a photo of what it said were the remains of a "missile" in the Pakistan village where American intelligence had hoped to find the criminal Zawahiri. But the photo turned out to be a crude fraud: It was really just an old artillery shell, instantly recognized as such by even amateurs.
The New York Times did not recognize the fraud for the same reason that the Los Angeles Times didn't recognize an April Fools' prank as such and went with a quote from the joke on a front-page story about endangered species, and for the same reason that CBS fell for the fake documents during the 2004 presidential election: The elite mainstream media wants to believe some stories so badly that it abandons even the thinnest veneer of distance.
This is left-wing agenda journalism. The sooner a repair project founded on balance and fairness gets underway, the better.
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