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Mistakes of the LiberalMedia

By encinoman

Yes, we know things are very bad now in the media; today&;s Mediabistro bucket of cheer talks of layoffs at Newsweek,  NPR and the death of local newspapers.  But that&;s no excuse for making ridiculous, egregious errors like mispelling &;Montecito&; or inventing a new car, the &;Ford Malibu.&;  But those are innocent mistakes compared to not checking the background of spokespeople before they&;re interviewed, or bowing to political correctness.  Today, NPR&;s Marketplace had a long interview with Henry Blodget about whether he saw this &;bubble&; coming.  Yes, the same Henry Blodget who was fined $4 million and banned for life from the securities industry is now a respectable commentator, like notorious anti-Semite Amiri Baraka this summer.  But when a host of a KCRW-FM show dares to compare firing someone for donating money to an anti-gay marriage cause to the Blacklist, he&;s slapped down by the station manager.

Tags: Amiri-Baraka, death-of-journalism, Henry-Blodget, KCRW.ORG

This entry was posted on December 11, 2008 at 11:22 pm and is filed under Journalism, political-correctness.

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