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Before The Facts Can Get Their Pants On
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William Rivers Pitt, Truthout)
Thu Apr 25 11:56:00 2013
Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2013 11:55:59 -0400 (EDT)
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t r u t h o u t | It has been a little over a week since the bombs went off on Boylston Street, and as a proud resident of Boston, I am happy to say that matters are returning quickly back to normal after the mayhem of the weekend.
Of all the things I will remember from this past week, the abject failure of much of the "mainstream" news media stands out in high relief. From CNN breathlessly - and incorrectly - announcing that an arrest had been made, to a bunch of MSNBC talking heads yowling about suicide bombers in Boston despite a total lack of suicides among the suspects, it was an uncommonly bad week for an uncommonly unreliable industry.
It has never been more important for those of us in the independent news media to be good at our jobs; to paraphrase Winston Churchill, bad news reports get halfway around the world before the facts can get their pants on. It is our job to stand against the failures of the corporate media, to be better than that, and that is a responsibility Truthout is proud to bear.
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<b>Of all the things I will remember from this past week, the abject failure of much of the "mainstream" news media stands out in high relief. </b>From CNN breathlessly - and incorrectly - announcing that an arrest had been made, to a bunch of MSNBC talking heads yowling about suicide bombers in Boston despite a total lack of suicides among the suspects, it was an uncommonly bad week for an uncommonly unreliable industry.<br />
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It has never been more important for those of us in the independent news media to be good at our jobs; to paraphrase Winston Churchill, bad news reports get halfway around the world before the facts can get their pants on. It is our job to stand against the failures of the corporate media, to be better than that, and that is a responsibility Truthout is proud to bear.<br />
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