I've never met him, but I'm sure Jim Romenesko is a wonderful guy, a great human being, and a swell dude all-around. But go over to his media news site right now.
Go ahead, I'll wait.
Okay, did you see his coverage of the 60 Minutes story? You missed it? It's there. Go look again.
(Fine you cheater, it's in the skinny left-hand column, beneath the "fold.")
So this is how America's foremost journalism website covers the biggest story in journalism since Jayson Blair. (And it cuts both ways--if it's a forgery, CBS News should be devastated; if the documents are legit, we have a prime example of a peril of the blogosphere: Hello, triumphalism!)
So let's put it to the floor: Is Romenesko a journalistic idiot, or an ideological hack?
PS:What's the Poynter motto? "Everything you need to be a better journalist"!
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The world is not composed only of Bush lovers and Bush haters. There is a American majority uses their vote as a reasoned expression of their judgement about what's good for our country.
The notion, that intentional misrepresentation (lying) is unimportant because no one is actually informed by public discourse, is both absurd and is probably the only hope CBS has left to maintain their credibility.
An audience of Bush haters alone would make CBS as watched as MSNBC.
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