Has Baltimore Sun’s Dan Rodricks Read A Newspaper?

9:31 am EST July 27th, 2010 | Media | 2 Comments

He makes up a false choice in his column today, claiming that we only have to choose between the existing daily newspapers and the Andrew Breitbarts of the world.

Daily newspapers make mistakes. They usually deal with the basic facts of stories — the title someone once held, the name of a suspect in a criminal matter — and corrections appear in print every day. Newspapers have had some reporters and columnists who made stuff up (years ago, a Washington Post reporter won a Pulitzer for a fabricated story) or copied the work of others. Those people were all fired.

Had any producer at a local TV station, network or cable newsroom cobbled together a video like the one Mr. Breitbart posted of Ms. Sherrod, that producer would be among the nation’s unemployed today.

There’s no doubt that Breitbart is a blight on this world and a cancer on our public discourse. But even more damaging than Breitbart was this:

In the last 14 months, Iraq has sought to buy thousands of specially designed aluminum tubes, which American officials believe were intended as components of centrifuges to enrich uranium. American officials said several efforts to arrange the shipment of the aluminum tubes were blocked or intercepted but declined to say, citing the sensitivity of the intelligence, where they came from or how they were stopped.

That’s The NY Times printing false propaganda from the Bush administration that helped lead us into a war that killed thousands of Americans unnecessarily. Yay, mainstream media.

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2 Responses to “Has Baltimore Sun’s Dan Rodricks Read A Newspaper?”

  1. anotherbozo says:
    July 27, 2010 at 12:39 pm

    Like you said. Until the Daily Show comes back on the air, I’ll have to depend on oliverwillis.com for this kind of corrective.

  2. calling all toasters says:
    July 27, 2010 at 2:25 pm

    Oliver, WTF? Why are you doing the work of the know-nothing right? They want papers dead because papers have most of the investigative journalists who can correct the record. It was the McClatchy (then Knight-Ridder) papers who did the most to undermine the bogus case for the Iraq war. But keep on taking offense at any suggestion that they perform a valuable function– you may get a bouquet from Sean Hannity.