Excerpt Of The Day: The Mindset Of The Mainstream Media

by John Hawkins | May 18, 2005 3:27 am

“At least Dan Rather’s forged documents didn’t get anybody killed, as the phony Newsweek story did. What is even more revealing — and appalling — about the mainstream media is that they are now circling the wagons around Newsweek, to protect it from criticism, just as they circled the wagons around Dan Rather last year, and now give him an award this year to put the frosting on the cake.

If the forged documents at CBS and the phony story at Newsweek were just isolated mistakes, that would be one thing. But media liberals have made themselves accessories after the fact, by springing to the defense of such indefensible misconduct.

In a sense, that is good. It makes it easier for the public to see that the forged documents and the fake story were not just odd things that happened to a couple of people but were symptomatic of a mindset among many others who sprang to their defense.” — Thomas Sowell[1]

Endnotes:
  1. Thomas Sowell: http://www.townhall.com/columnists/thomassowell/ts20050518.shtml

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