The Newest News Slacker

The Detroit Free Press. According to the story, "The Detroit Free Press will begin random post-publication fact-checking to look for inaccuracies that slip through its editors..."

Does anyone else see a problem with this? Post-publication checking? Why not do fact-checking BEFORE a story is published? And stories are only subject to random fact-checking? That means they clearly aren't interested in publishing stories that are correct all the time.

The funny thing is...the media doesn't even think it's doing anything wrong.

When News Kills, II

Newsweek says it won’t accept the resignation of Michael Isikoff for his untrue story of interrogators who flushed the Koran down a toilet in plain sight of Muslim detainees.

The story set off riots around the Middle East, causing injury to many and death to 17 people.

It seems that Isikoff had a little “bad intell” and people died because of it. Isn’t that something a feller is supposed to lose his job over?

And blaming the Pentagon is laughable. “Well, our source at the Pentagon told us and we figured if they were telling us, then it was true.”

Basically, Newsweek is saying that reporters are more important than the story.

When News Kills

How many people have to die because of the press corp's involvement in this stupid war? I pledge my vote to whatever candidate pulls our media troops out of Iraq! Peace at any cost!

I Left Government Service Too Early

Lemme get this right...I can't sell cocaine, but the federal government can?