Not content to letting its sister fishwrap, the NYT, go down in flames after running fact-free anti-McCain hit pieces that even drawn condemnation from the paper’s own ombudsman, the Washington comPost has decided that its own “multiple layers of fact-checkers” are competing for the Shoddy Trophy. Details from Hot Air:
I didn’t take much notice of the Washington Post article on the front page today by Matthew Mosk regarding “unusual” donors to the John McCain campaign. It didn’t find any wrongdoing, for one thing; it made an insinuation of wrongdoing by association that it didn’t back up with facts. The Norman Hsu case, in contrast, built on odd donation patterns but didn’t get reported until actual wrongdoing was apparent, with Democratic bundler Hsu being a fugitive with a penchant for Ponzi schemes.
Then the comPost puts out a correction…which shoots their entire story straight to hell. But get this: the comPost was put in its place by…a blogger! Or, as the snoots in the MSM call us, “pajamas-clad yokels”. I prefer “journalism’s janitors”, since we’re the ones who have to come in and clean up the mess that the MSM leaves behind. Anywho:
This would not have come to light had it not been for Amanda Carpenter, who did what the Post’s layers of fact-checkers and editors apparently couldn’t be bothered to do: their jobs. Amanda went to Open Secrets, a web site that makes public all contributions to political campaigns, and checked the names against the records. Three out of the four never came up as McCain contributors at all. I’d guess that it took Amanda about ten minutes at the outside to check this, ten minutes that the Post couldn’t bother to expend.
I’ve known about Open Secrets for quite some time, which is odd, since according to the leftist elitists who work in the MSM newsrooms, I’m just some pajamas-clad yokel who doesn’t know a thing about real news. If, by “real news”, they mean “shiite you can just make up without doing any kind of research that even pajamas-clad yokels know about”, then yeah…”real news”!
But hey, everyone makes mistakes, right? I mean, it’s not like this guy Mosk has done this before.
Actually, it’s a lot like this guy Mosk has done this before.
Nope…no liberal media bias!
Who needs facts when we have Obama!
Comment by Steve — August 7, 2008 @ 8:52 am
Jon
How many times do I have to tell you “facts just get in the way of a good story”, especially if the facts contradict your point of view?
Comment by WMD_Maker — August 7, 2008 @ 5:09 pm