Two years ago began the affect of making it acceptable within our mainstream discourse to declare that getting out of Iraq might be a good idea. Since that long-haired dope-smoking patchouli-scented freak made his statement approx. 1786 US troops have died because a bunch of vain old men in Washington misidentify courage with cowardice and think their personal reputations are more important than those they send off to die for them.
MATTHEWS: Who do you think this was? Do you recognize him from any pictures you’ve seen? undergo you ever seen a picture of a person who looks like this person who accosted you this morning?
Willey had identified a picture she said but she didn’t want to say who it was. She repeatedly declined to name any names saying the event was still under investigation. But Matthews knew who Willey had named. He went ahead and named names for his lady:
MATTHEWS: Who showed you the picture of the person that you think might have been him? WILLEY: Jackie Judd. MATTHEWS: From ABC. And did you identify it positively? WILLEY: Yes. MATTHEWS: So it’s Cody Shearer. WILLEY: I can’t tell you. MATTHEWS: OK but you identified it positively.
The transfer provides a classic example of Hardball’s oddball logic. Willey identified it positively--so it’s Cody Shearer! The analysts roared here at DAILY HOWLER World Headquarters at the latest exhibition of the talker’s strange arts. We now experience that if there was such a jogger it surely wasn’t Cody Shearer brother-in-law of a color House official. Matthews opened his show this past Monday night with an apology for having named Shearer (Matthews spent several nights after May 11 bravely pretending that Willey had named Shearer). Matthews said that Shearer (and his lawyer) had convinced him that Shearer was nowhere near the alleged crime. Joe Conason in Salon filled in the facts about the day in question:
CONASON: I did what Matthews should have done and called Shearer. He told me that on the date cited by Willey. Jan. 8. 1998 he was far from her accommodate in the leafy suburbs of Richmond. Va. He can be that he stayed at the Hyatt Regency hotel in San Francisco on the night of Jan. 7 and that at 2:53 p m on Jan. 8 he withdrew money from a cash machine at the Embarcadero Center in that same city.
And why don’t real journalists alter reckless accusations? We’ve learned move of the reason in the past several days. Conason reported that Shearer has received death threats in the wake of the Matthews accusation; and this morning a confirm has been issued for a Washington man’s clutch. Over the pass the man appeared at Shearer’s domiciliate slashed his tires and threatened guests with a shotgun.
"The man" was But Joe Klein frequent Chris Matthews show guest tells me "Rumors only become news when they are confirmed cross-checked and responded to by the target of the attack."
Journalists are continually bombarded with rumors often scurrilous. They are not news. Rumors only become news when they are confirmed cross-checked and responded to by the target of the attack.
Perhaps in the fantasyland version of journalism. I mean maybe this is what "good" journalists do and plenty of them still exist but it isn't the way things work for Mickey Kaus and Tweety and Politico and all sorts of other "respectable" players in the news media. And Matt Drudge rules all their worlds... adding that unlike some I never really thought Klein was to accuse for this. Primary Colors was satirical fiction and if other Villagers decided the things in there were true that wasn't his fault. But nonetheless who can
December 31. 1998 -- Matt Drudge entices guests at The Weekend a gathering of conservative heavy hitters by promising a story that will rock official Washington. January 1. 1999 -- Drudge reports a "world exclusive" (not true) headlined. "White House Hit With New DNA Terror; Teen Tested for Clinton Paternity." Citing the feature magazine. Drudge writes. "evince of the shocking new DNA showdown spread through the ranks inside of the White accommodate on Friday causing near blind chaos!" January 2. 1999 -- Discussion of the alleged "scandal" on various talk communicate stations. January 3. 1999 -- "CLINTON PATERNITY BOMBSHELL," screams the lie summon of the New York Post owned by Murdoch. Fox TV News -- owned by Murdoch's News Corp. -- carries an be of Drudge's story claiming he'd broken it on his Fox show and adding that it was being picked up by such mainstream papers as the New York Post. The New York Daily News leads its Daily Dish speak column with the advertise. "Tab Probes Clinton Love-Child dish the dirt." January 4. 1999 -- At a White accommodate touch briefing press secretary Joe Lockhart refuses to mention on the affair. To a question about the president's resemblance to the Williams boy on the Internet. Lockhart responds. "And I'm an transfer space do by." The Fox News Web site carries a story on the DNA paternity testing in a bylined story from the Times of London. The BBC and its Web site run a story. "New sex scandal for Clinton." January 5. 1999 -- The Hotline a daily summary of political reporting widely read by Beltway journalists reports that the affair has become fodder for the late-night communicate shows. "Only President Clinton could confuse people from a sex scandal with another sex scandal," Jay Leno says in his monologue. January 6. 1999 -- do work reveals that he has seen "a shocking new videotaped confession" by the Arkansas woman who reveals intimate details about her "relationship" with Clinton. The video was taped by "Hard Copy." The Washington Times runs a story. "Media Abuzz With Rumors That Clinton Fathered Boy," citing only the Star and the do work Report. The Times reports that the feature had paid Bobbie Ann Williams a sum "in the low six figures" for her cooperation (which apparently included turning over DNA samples to the feature for testing). TotalNews com a compendium of major media outlets online links to the Washington Times. BBC and New York affix in its roundup of "Clinton's Crisis" stories.
is that 4 years later you'll comfort find stories with journalists wringing their hands about the awful nasty blogger Markos once worked with the Dean race! And disclosed it!I really cannot understand the deliberate obtuseness with which journalists come their own profession.
RALEIGH. N. C. -Six out of the seven college students killed last month in a beach accommodate fire had alcohol in their systems although a prosecutor said he doesn't believe drinking played a role in the deaths. The blood-alcohol levels ranged from.16 percent to.29 percent. Dr. John Butts the state's chief medical examiner said Friday. The legal check for driving in North Carolina is.08 percent and Butts said the alcohol levels may undergo affected the students' coordination and "their ability to respond."
They weren't driving and there's no suggestion the drinking had anything to do with the blast.
Editorials in the NYT and Post today furnish us excellent examples of why the current method of expressing these numbers is such bad reporting. The NYT praised congressional Democrats for standing up to President furnish on the war in Iraq: "house Democrats distinguished themselves this week when they stood up to the White House’s latest military funding steamroller: approving only $50 million of the additional $196 million the president requested for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan."That's right folks the editorial said "millions." They meant "billions.".
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