Friday, August 11, 2006

The MSM is full of slime sucking weasels

To see why, read this over at Cam Edwards.

Then take a look at this "apology" from the Chicago Tribune.

Haste to make deadline is no excuse for putting incorrect information in a ewspaper.

Factual errors erode a paper's credibility.

We made an inadvertent but hurtful error Tuesday night in an effort to get as much news as possible into Wednesday's final edition of the Tribune sports section, and we would like to apologize to Eddie Johnson, his family and friends, and our readers
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They smear a good man and they can only whine about deadlines.

Are deadlines somehow more important than getting the facts right? Why? What bad thing would have happened to the Tribune if they had waited a day to verify which Eddie Johnson was arrested?

It is just one more example of the MSM failing to walk the walk when it comes to fact-checking and editorial supervision.

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