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Sunday, January 29, 2012

The NY Times and the End of Truth

New York Times' Public Editor, Arthur Brisbane, is
being criticized for his discussion of truth in journalism.
(photo: TopNews)
By Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Magazine
13 January 12

his attempt at public-editing from Arthur Brisbane at the Times is exactly why I usually tell people to take it a little easy on the grunt reporters who have to do the day-to-day work of covering campaigns. Covering a presidential campaign on a daily basis has become so impossible that daily political journalism is very close to becoming a detriment to self-government. The people doing it are working in a dynamic that makes thoughtful consideration of what is true and what is false almost impossible.
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