Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2009 12:33:57 -0500
From: mike hoyt
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To: cjr-c@lists.jrn.columbia.edu
Subject: Fort Hood and secondhand information/CJR
Dear reader,
We have some good stuff today on CJR.org, the Web site of the Columbia Journalism Review:
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The Fort Hood Massacre: Be first or be right? Greg Marx measures the ripples of a story that a Texas paper ran with secondhand info that turns out to be wrong
http://www.cjr.org/campaign_desk/when_is_news_fit_to_print.php
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Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2009 13:05:30 -0500
From: mike hoyt
Reply-To: cjr-c@lists.jrn.columbia.edu
To: cjr-c@lists.jrn.columbia.edu
Subject: Fort Hood/error
Dear reader,
Our earlier e-mail message about this story said that the secondhand information in question turned out to be wrong. That is not accurate.
Apologies,
The editors
The Fort Hood Massacre: Be first or be right? Greg Marx measures the ripples of a story that a Texas paper ran with secondhand info
Lots of heat in the CJR comments.
Something not right with the first link. (href)
http://www.cjr.org/campaign_desk/when_is_news_fit_to_print.php
In summary: when the leftist media quoted “reliable sources” etc that is kosher but inconvenient truth uncoroberated????….that is taboo.
We live in an Age when lies are like stones of rain. You can barley see the horizon for the weight of them.
Truth has gone gibbering away.
JMO
Funny …. I don’t recall any Grego in the Marx Bros. comedy team!
Speaking of poor journalism related to this event:
Watch the CTV news segment about Nidal Malik Hassan, and note that the segment host doesn’t mention ‘Islam’ once. Hassan is referred to as being in contact with a ‘radical cleric’ (those radical Buddhist clerics!) who inspired the Toronto 18 ‘group of men’.
She then actually goes on to ask Tom Ridge, with a straight face, if the cause of the shooting was ‘combat stress related’.
Ridge, to his credit, points out that this was clearly a terrorist act.
Is it any wonder no one trusts the MSM?
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20091113/hasan_investigation_091309/20091113?hub=TopStoriesV2
OMMAG – Grego wasn’t allowed to make movies with the other Marx Brothers because he was way too pompous and stilted.
I thought Karl was the last Marx brother?
And of course, the ugliest Marx brother was Pox…
ebt – Groucho himself would have renounced puns forever if he’d read that 🙂