Et tu, Reuters?
This entry was posted on 8/29/2006 5:40 AM and is filed under Madness.
What's this? During a moment of weakness last week I watched an MSM production of the evening "news." I forget which network but all employees were exceedingly well-groomed and seemed strikingly intelligent. Guys and gals you knew you could trust. Maybe you, as did I, saw on your TV screens cheerful, yellow-vested Hezbollah agents handing out crisp green American currency to grateful victims of Israeli aggression, the Lebanese. Now I find that the greenbacks were counterfeit and all those surpassingly handsome types at ABC or CBS or NBC or CNN (should I replace "or" with "and" in the preceding string?) ought to have damn-well known or suspected or--dare I say it, reported, that the money was counterfeit because, it happens, Hezbollah has a well-known history as a counterfeiter of merit. Read this by David Frum if you haven't yet been made nauseous today with accounts of the repetitive incompetence, malicious intent, gullibility, ignorance or all of the above which continually haunts our champions of truth in the free West, the mainstream press.
Frum also summarizes the highlights of the growing Fauxtography scandal. Why would people actually lie?
