Wednesday, September 22, 2004

Media idiot

Peter Clark, Senior Scholar, Poynter Institute on televising hearings on CBS Rathergate.
It's time for public hearings again. What did CBS people know, and when did they know it?

Transparency is the word of the day in journalism standards and practices, and what could be more transparent than testimony taken in public? Televised hearings, it will be argued, would produce posturing and preening aplenty, distorting the details of empirical investigation. Look what happens to big time defense attorneys when they get to work the cameras."

Oh yes. Would be great. Media-appointed investigators questioning media about media misdeeds.

Where do they find these kinds of idiots?

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