October 14, 2007
Newsweek Illustrates "1 out of 6" Journalism
Yes. The infinitely knowledgeable, infinitely accurate deciders and decoders of all that confusing "GOP noise" got 5 out of 6 captions WRONG in their cute little sidebar on "Rudy's Right Hands."
If this is the standard of journalistic integrity we can expect from the MSM in the upcoming election, maybe they should just print an insert whenever they cover Republicans - exclusively for the corrections.
Pathetic (yes, I used it again. It is the perfect word to describe what's going on these days in the media while these people lecture everyone about fairness, accuracy, honesty and integrity. It is laughable.).
Daniel Pipes agrees, calling this particular eggregious litany of errors "jawdropping:"
Comments: (1) There are six pictures in all on the page and five of the six captions are wrong; only that of Robert Kasten is correct. Aggregating so many errors at once takes real talent – but count on Newsweek.ht: Insty(2) The inevitable implication is that, for Newsweek staff, all conservatives look alike.
(3) The accuracy of the picture captions provides an apt commentary for the rest of Newsweek's wretched coverage in this article.
(4) For another example of Newsweek's problem with quality, see "Lorraine Ali, the Worst Political Reporter in America?" (October 15, 2007)
