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On Dealing Seriously With Journalistic Fraud

In the light of KoranGate and the meme of “Fake but Plausible” we should take a moment to reflect on the story that blew the top on fraud in Journalism, RatherGate. Yes, that story where obviously forged documents were used to try to discredit the President during an election (you know, the ones that had P.O. Box 12345 in the header). CBS took seriously the allegations as well did the rest of the journalistic community.

Today, the journalistic community has expressed its righteous indignation that one journalist has so given into the Democrats that he ran a false story by awarding Dan Rather the Peabody Award. It’s good to know that media organizations take bias and fraud seriously.

May 17th, 2005 Posted by John Bambenek | The MSM | one comment

Newsweek Kills People, Tells the World To Piss Off

The hubris, the absolute hubris of Newsweek over this… From Drudge:

“Mike was told he would not be sacrificed, we are stading behind him 100%,” a top magazine source told the DRUDGE REPORT. “We do not, I repeat, do not let this White House, any White House, make our staff decisions for us.” The top source claims an emotional Isikoff offered to resign from the magazine over the weekend….

Guys, you ran a false story you didn’t even bother to fact check and 17 people died because of it. 17 fathers, mothers, sons, and daughters won’t be coming home to their families because of YOUR failure to do basically journalistic work. Isikoff appears to have a conscience in this story and I do feel sorry for him because it’s obviously a horrible thing to realize what you have caused but the management of Newsweek sticking their middle-finger up at the world and to America only demonstrates that treasonous and seditious nature of the MSM (and Newsweek in particular) over KoranKate

May 17th, 2005 Posted by John Bambenek | The MSM | 3 comments