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Ouch! Now it''s the WaPo's turn to be taken to the woodshed over the CBS MemoGate forgeries

If you read all of this, you'll end up feeling sorry for the Washington Post's reporter, Tom Shales, who obviously didn't get a very good education from his teachers.  Maybe his editors will learn a thing or two, however.

Tom Shales of the Washington Post makes 10 errors in writing about CBS's Memogate...

...all in a single paragraph:

"...Tireless press critics during war or peacetime, the conservatives were handed (14) a valuable new weapon (15) when CBS News fumbled(1) a report (13) detailing(2) the president's(3) shoddy record(4) as a member of the National Guard back in Texas (16) . The report was attacked (5) virtually the moment it aired(6) (11) on "60 Minutes" (12) ; documents used (17) to bolster(7) the allegations (18) were condemned by conservative(8) critics as phony and forged(9), though no forging has yet been proved(10)."

Nice work, Scylla & Charybdis.  And the error list has been updated to 18.  In one paragraph.  Nice. 

Someone tell me again why the Old Media is so much better than the New?

December 30, 2004 in Media, Mainstream; see also, BIAS |

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