Letting Lying Liars Lie 0
Dick Polman discusses the inability of the press to call out lies, trying to figure out why they won’t state the obvious.
A nugget (emphasis added):
In other words, Romney’s key clip was demonstrably false. But that’s not how it was generally reported.
A CNN tweet: “Democrats say new Romney ad distorts Obama’s words.” There it is, the doctrine of false equivalence/balance. Romney makes a charge, “Democrats say” something in rebuttal, and all charges are equal. This is what Wicker used to complain about. He said that, all too often, the press takes refuge in “statements delivered by official spokesmen,” without weighing the facts to determine whether one side is more credible than the other.
When I was a young ‘un, being “objective” meant trying to separate true from false.
