And exceptional links (Spruiell, Patterico, …).

The then current “public editor” of the Chicago Tribune

The then-current Public Editor is the same ninny — Don Wycliff — who declared that Andrew McCarthy writes “propaganda”, as compared to the great Molly Ivins, whom he called “a journalist.”

He has taken his great wisdom to Notre Dame to inspire your kids…

Take a good look at these three images of Red Cross ambulances in Lebanon, supposedly deliberately targeted by Israel, and broadcast worldwide by the MSM last month: On August 6, I linked to Dan Riehl’s excellent post raising questions and……

I predicted then that photos would quickly become unacceptable as evidence. I had no idea that, twenty years later, the lesson would still be incompletely learned.

A short recon of what’s out there that might draw your attention….

Allah @ Hot Air says, “This photo? Probably real. And if it isn’t, don’t tell me. I want to believe.”……

Oh, there is just so much to cover tonight. You’ve got your work cut out for yourself, though. The bulk of the reading will be found by following the links. And I assure you, you’re gonna want that cowbell! Let’s…

I’m still catching up on my reading after not having an internet connection for 4 hours, and I need to leave here before daylight to get to a medical appointment. I’m going to have to settle for a quick list…

The then current “public editor” of the Chicago Tribune published a series of columns on how the news is presented. I’m pretty sure they were published in September of 1992.

The Chicago Tribune, as have most of the big newspapers and a good many smaller ones, has moved steadily over the last decade toward writing stories that give context and perspective to the most important news. Instead of just laying out one purported fact after another, we have increasingly tried to explain and analyze to give your our best understanding of the truth to which those facts add up.

This is not something new. The weekly news magazines have been doing it since their beginnings, often especially in their earlier years, with what, frequently seemed to be transparent points of view. With cable television and other 24-hours sources of immediate news available, the major newspapers have more and more turned to putting out daily something resembling the old weekly news magazines in content, heavy on behind-the-scenes reporting, explanation and analysis, but hopefully without the overtones of partisanship.

. . . Sometimes we are not as shophisticated as we should be and allow gratuitous opinion to substitute for needed context and factual wisdom. We must avoid point of view and polemics.

[Any typos are mine]

The media thinks they are beyond questioning and do not have to answer to their end consumers for false reporting, for staged and phony pictures.

They are finding out that the 21st Century is not going to be “THEIR” century.

I’m woozy at the thought of how much work Zombie put into this. Nothing to see here, though. Just another case of a few dozen INDIVIDUALS somehow all misinterpreting or actively distorting available evidence to concoct an Israeli atrocity that didn’t really happen.

Zombie is just ridiculously plugged in. I dare anyone to fisk that.

The media lies to you. Zombie sneaks the truth out in a brown paper bag.

“Paranoid? Delusional?”

Pretty much.
But more than that, irrelevant.

Knemon on August 23, 2006 at 4:29 PM

Thanks for you insight there knemon. Helpful. Knowing this now, I guess I just withdraw, and not post an opinion. I needed someone “relevant”, like you to point this out to me.

What a maroon!

Six Questions for Michael Scheuer on National Security

…We paid a great price for demonizing the Taliban. We saw them as evil because they didn’t let women work, but [but, But BUT! ] that’s largely irrelevant in Afghanistan.

Largely irrelevant?