Deconstructing a Smear
The Media seems rather slow to learn...
The blogosphere has been catching the media left, right, and center playing fast and loose with raw data. The lesson should have been clear after Dan Rather got caught in the act. Reuter's Fauxtography debacle should have been instructive.
Nope.
Instead AP has been caught spinning madly in their "reporting" on Secretary Rumsfeld's address already blogged about here.
The drive to emulate the buggy whip industry continues apace.
The blogosphere has been catching the media left, right, and center playing fast and loose with raw data. The lesson should have been clear after Dan Rather got caught in the act. Reuter's Fauxtography debacle should have been instructive.
Nope.
Instead AP has been caught spinning madly in their "reporting" on Secretary Rumsfeld's address already blogged about here.
AP takes the hatchet to Rumsfeld speech
Posted by: McQ on Tuesday, August 29, 2006
Interesting little side by side here. Donald Rumsfeld gave a speech to the American Legion. You can read it here. Robert Burns from AP reported on the speech. You can read it here. Below are some comparisons from the story and the speech.
The drive to emulate the buggy whip industry continues apace.
