Wednesday, February 24, 2010
The Media - "Fails to look in the mirror"
The American media is really, really bad when it comes to "the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth"...
Mondo Frazier writes at BigJournalism.com:
"Readers rarely get a chance to see the re-writing of history, but they’re seeing an attempt in the recent reporting by the Legacy Media of the John Edwards Scandal.
Several recently-published books (Mark Halperin and John Heilemann’s Game Change and Edwards’ ex-aide, Andrew Young’s The Politician) examine the John Edwards scandal and Edwards’ elaborate cover-up of his affair and love child with campaign videographer, Rielle Hunter.
Halperin and Heilemann would have readers believe that they were on the trail of the story from the start–and perhaps they were. It’s just that they didn’t bother to inform the readers of their employers, TIME and New York, while the scandal and cover-up were occurring."
