Monday, January 10, 2005
Reporting + emotional sturm und drang
Re: the report on the word processing foolishness in which CBS News engaged - Dick Thornburgh and Lou Boccardi states (p. 16): "Done accurately and fairly, investigative reporting serves a critical role in a free society. Done inaccurately, it can cause great harm." More to the point, it's been helping a whole heck of a lot to create an overcharged and foul atmosphere that we experience all the time and which pretty much poisoned the 2004 election. They could have helped keep the dialogue more or less on point, and it would have been just as important and intense, but much much less full of vitriol. I have to say that I think those who want the credit for being overseers must also accept the responsibility to contribute thoughtful verbalization and, thereby, a degree of rationality and calm.
Labels: politics, reflections
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