Tuesday, May 17, 2005
Newsweek Fiasco
Hugh Hewitt points to the MSM's treatment of corporations that make mistakes:
When American corporations screw up, the American media
whales on them day after day, week after week, and year after year. Think the Exxon Valdez, Unocal and Bhopal, The Ford Pinto, Enron.
Hugh accurately describes reality. His analysis also applies to the MSM treatment of mistakes by the military. Think the endless front page articles of Abu Graib in the New York Times.
However, the misconduct in the treatment of American corporation in the past does not justify continued misconduct in the treatment of Newsweek. Undoubtedly, this indicates too much optimism, but the MSM should learn from this error by their sister corporation and apply it to all who make errors in the future.
# posted by Thomas A. Becket : 7:45 AM
