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patterico.com - 11/3/2008
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Incredible. The New York Times again cites Greg Packer as a typical man on the street, as if he hadn’t been cited as such in dozens of other stories . Writing about a Philadelphia parade celebrating the Phillies’ World Series victory, the Paper of Record says :
The parade drew ...
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What Is This Google That You Speak Of?
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... Public pantsing accomplished. The point isn’t the fact that Ezra scored a point, but that the new media mindset is different. “Fact? Fact-check. Don’t take old media or other political speech as taken for granted. Dig around; check the sources.” In leading up to this presentation– for which Dr. Miller and others presumably had week and weeks to prepare, why didn’t a journalism professor know how to Google and fact-check on the internet? (Because everything he knows about journalism, he lurned by reading the New York Times. ) Lots more freespeechy goodness today ...
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