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New Journalisitic Standard; Lying is Okay.
The NY Times caught again. Yup. In what is becoming commonplace, the Times was forced to admit that one of their reporters made up a story about Hurricane Katrina. But that’s not the real story.
The real story is this…
Times editor Bill Keller, however, is still standing by Ms. Stanley’s bogus report. He told Calame that she was “writing as a critic, with the license that title brings - [and] was within bounds in her judgment.”
So if you take the position of a critic as a journalist it is now okay to lie, fabricate, and just plain ol’ make things up to fit what you want the story to convey. If you ask me most reporters sound like critics.
As incredible as it sounds that’s apparently now becoming the new journalistic standard since they can’t get away with lying anymore. I guess it’s a case of ” We’re going to lie no matter what to promote our agenda. Since the bloggers are always catching us, we’ll just make it okay and call it within the new bounds of journalistic integrity.” Times editor Keller giving a license to lie I guess. So is this new special category of reporter now exempt from telling the truth? Amazing!
Look for Alessandra Stanley to get some sort of great reporter award from the Rather Institute of High Standards. No wonder there’s fear in the newsrooms. You can’t get away with lying anymore. And that’s something to shed tears over.
So we’ll call it “okay.” Gotta love it.
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