This Proves the Media Aren't Liberal?
From the
Hartford Courant:
Reporters like Los Angeles Times political columnist Ron Brownstein have heard the criticisms over the months of the bitterly fought presidential campaign and beg to differ.
There was an "incredible cacophony coming out of the campaigns and the 527s," the new special-interest groups allowed to raise and spend unlimited money, Brownstein said. "And by and large I think we did a reasonable job.
"I really feel that the press was tested this year in the intensity of the attacks and the money spent. I'm not in a high flagellation mode."
When, for example, the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, one of the new 527s, broadcast ads attacking Democrat John Kerry's Vietnam service, major newspapers very quickly published detailed accounts undermining the claims, Brownstein said.
"But the problem is, of course, you may disprove something once, and it just keeps going," he said, arguing that there is a mistaken assumption among many news consumers that the press can drive political discussion.
Sigh. The media disproved exactly nothing. The detailed accounts undermining the Swiftees claims never existed.
