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Have you complained directly to the news organizations? Someone should. I'd like to know how they respond.

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Peter Fallow--
The First Amendment does not excuse you from having ethics. A lie of omission is still a lie.
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'but once you're quoted "on the record," we can use those quotes any way we please.'

True enough, but you can't do it and keep your reputation for honesty.
 

Just thank heavens it wasn't a gay terrorist wedding.
 

Peter, sure an individual can use quotes any way that individual wants to. But to do so under the guise of journalistic accuracy and objectivity....?? Nope, my good man, sorry.
 

"Jason, please my good man first." -- Peter Fallow, quoted according to the Peter Fallow rules.
 

Sorry, Mr. Fallow, but you're incorrect. Please review Journalism's Code of Ethics and try again: http://www.spj.org/ethics_code.asp

Real professionals keep all quotes in context. To do anything else is to violate the Code and become a writer of fiction.

Good day.
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I'm from Canada and I'm disgusted with what the Globe and Mail reported. I've just fired a letter to the editor about this and also alerted their competitor as well in the hopes that the Globe and Mail will answer these charges.
 

I think Mr Fallow is having you all on. A visit to his website demonstrates what I can only surmise he thinks is elevated irony. Perhaps the fact that we didn't see it right away is more attributable to the pervasiveness of the phenomenon of bias in the fourth estate

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Wow. I have comments! I've never seen them before. (I almost never go to the homepage, much less the archive links.)

Thanks a bunch for writing. Especially the journalists.

I have to say the "Jason please my good man first comment" really cracked me up.

All the best,

Jason

P.S., The public editor's office at the New York Times just dropped me a note saying they're looking into it, so stay tuned.
 

Peter Fallow is the callow 'scribe' in Bonfire of the Vanities.
 

but does this suprise anyone? we've all known for many many months now that the media doesn't care about reporting the truth. they only want to make Bush and his people look bad. it goes along with the lines of Bushes plans for Iraq, although he clearly stated them yesterday, there are those in the media that still insist that he doesn't have a plan. the Librials are the death of the nation.

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Great eye Jason, keep up the good work.
 

To "jeff" the journalist - you must be terribly naive. Surely you don't believe in the "objectivity" and "accuracy" of the media? There are so many clear examples of stories being passed around as "true" because "reporters" don't bother to do their own fact checking any more. One of the clearest examples is the story about sublimal messages in the smoke in "Lion King", a story that went worldwide but was found, over a year later, to be fabricated based upon the opinion of one woman in Tennessee.

There is not such thing any more as journalists. Nowadays what we have is repeating terminals. Someone writes something partly based on fact but slanted to portray their particular view of events, and then all the other media outlets simply regurgitate the story.

"Journalists" now routinely interview other "journalists" to "get the story", rather than interviewing eye witnesses or actually visiting the scene of an event and getting the facts about what took place. Or they interview and "expert", who lives half way around the world and is basing their entire opinion upon the "facts" that were "reported. And it's all supposed to be "fair and objective".

The Internet may be the death of journalism, because now interested readers can get their "news" directly from the people involved - not filtered through the prism of a "reporter".
 

Jason - great work.

"A rose by any other name would smell."
- W. Shakespeare
 

Have you listened to the actual source tape? With so many outlets reporting the same quote that's not in the transcript, I would question the transcript's accuracy. Transcriptionists do make mistakes, especially rushed ones, and the National Review is not necessarily any more trustworthy than other media outlets.
 

mattis : forget it . this guy is not even alive ........
a real soldier , so to say . well mercenary would be too much of a compliment .

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Excellent work, Jason. I live in the U.K, and the Independent and Guardian are two of the four national broadsheets available over here. Both are total rubbish as far as I'm concerned. I knew this probably decades before you did. The London Times though is pretty good and has to rival the Washington Post for accuracy and objectivity. Check it out some time.

Cheers, Phil. London.
 

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25 Mind-Numbingly Stupid Quotes About Hurricane Katrina And Its Aftermath
1) "I don't think anybody anticipated the breach of the levees." –President Bush, on "Good Morning America," Sept. 1, 2005, six days after repeated warnings from experts about the scope of damage expected from Hurricane Katrina (Source)

2) "What I'm hearing which is sort of scary is that they all want to stay in Texas. Everybody is so overwhelmed by the hospitality. And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway so this (chuckle) – this is working very well for them." –Former First Lady Barbara Bush, on the Hurricane flood evacuees in the Houston Astrodome, Sept. 5, 2005 (Source)

3) "It makes no sense to spend billions of dollars to rebuild a city that's seven feet under sea level....It looks like a lot of that place could be bulldozed." –House Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.), Aug. 31, 2005 (Source)

4) "We've got a lot of rebuilding to do ... The good news is — and it's hard for some to see it now — that out of this chaos is going to come a fantastic Gulf Coast, like it was before. Out of the rubbles of Trent Lott's house — he's lost his entire house — there's going to be a fantastic house. And I'm looking forward to sitting on the porch." (Laughter) —President Bush, touring hurricane damage, Mobile, Ala., Sept. 2, 2005 (Source)

5) "Considering the dire circumstances that we have in New Orleans, virtually a city that has been destroyed, things are going relatively well." –FEMA Director Michael Brown, Sept. 1, 2005 (Source)

6) "Brownie, you're doing a heck of a job." –President Bush, to FEMA director Michael Brown, while touring Hurricane-ravaged Mississippi, Sept. 2, 2005 (Source)

7) "I have not heard a report of thousands of people in the convention center who don't have food and water." –Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff, on NPR's "All Things Considered," Sept. 1, 2005 (Source)

8) "Well, I think if you look at what actually happened, I remember on Tuesday morning picking up newspapers and I saw headlines, 'New Orleans Dodged the Bullet.' Because if you recall, the storm moved to the east and then continued on and appeared to pass with considerable damage but nothing worse." –Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff, blaming media coverage for his failings, "Meet the Press," Sept. 4, 2005 (Source)

9) "I mean, you have people who don't heed those warnings and then put people at risk as a result of not heeding those warnings. There may be a need to look at tougher penalties on those who decide to ride it out and understand that there are consequences to not leaving.” –Sen. Rick Santorum (R-PA), Sept. 6, 2005 (Source)

10) "You simply get chills every time you see these poor individuals...many of these people, almost all of them that we see are so poor and they are so black, and this is going to raise lots of questions for people who are watching this story unfold." –CNN's Wolf Blitzer, on New Orleans' hurricane evacuees, Sept. 1, 2005 (Source)

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25 Mind-Numbingly Dumb Quotes About Hurricane Katrina And Its Aftermath
11) "What didn't go right?'" –President Bush, as quoted by House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), after she urged him to fire FEMA Director Michael Brown "because of all that went wrong, of all that didn't go right" in the Hurricane Katrina relief effort (Source)

12) "Now tell me the truth boys, is this kind of fun?" –House Majority Leader Tom Delay (R-TX), to three young hurricane evacuees from New Orleans at the Astrodome in Houston (Source)

13) "We finally cleaned up public housing in New Orleans. We couldn't do it, but God did." –Rep. Richard Baker (R-LA) to lobbyists, as quoted in the Wall Street Journal (Source)

14) "Louisiana is a city that is largely under water." –Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff, news conference, Sept. 3, 2005 (Source)

15) "I also want to encourage anybody who was affected by Hurricane Corina to make sure their children are in school." –First Lady Laura Bush, twice referring to a "Hurricane Corina" while speaking to children and parents in South Haven, Mississippi, Sept. 8, 2005 (Source)

16) "It's totally wiped out. ... It's devastating, it's got to be doubly devastating on the ground." –President Bush, turning to his aides while surveying Hurricane Katrina flood damage from Air Force One, Aug. 31, 2005 (Source)

17) "I believe the town where I used to come – from Houston, Texas, to enjoy myself, occasionally too much – will be that very same town, that it will be a better place to come to." –President Bush, on the tarmac at the New Orleans airport, Sept. 2, 2005 (Source)

18) "Last night, we showed you the full force of a superpower government going to the rescue." –MSNBC's Chris Matthews, Sept. 1, 2005 (Source)

19) "You know I talked to Haley Barbour, the governor of Mississippi yesterday because some people were saying, 'Well, if you hadn't sent your National Guard to Iraq, we here in Mississippi would be better off.' He told me 'I've been out in the field every single day, hour, for four days and no one, not one single mention of the word Iraq.' Now where does that come from? Where does that story come from if the governor is not picking up one word about it? I don't know. I can use my imagination." –Former President George Bush, who can give his imagination a rest, interview with CNN’s Larry King, Sept. 5, 2005 (Source)

20) "We just learned of the convention center – we being the federal government – today." –FEMA Director Michael Brown, to ABC's Ted Koppel, Sept. 1, 2005, to which Koppel responded " Don't you guys watch television? Don't you guys listen to the radio? Our reporters have been reporting on it for more than just today." (Source)

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25 Mind-Numbingly Stupid Quotations About Hurricane Katrina And Its Aftermath
21) "I don't want to alarm everybody that, you know, New Orleans is filling up like a bowl. That's just not happening." -Bill Lokey, FEMA's New Orleans coordinator, in a press briefing from Baton Rouge, Aug. 30, 2005 (Source)

22) "FEMA is not going to hesitate at all in this storm. We are not going to sit back and make this a bureaucratic process. We are going to move fast, we are going to move quick, and we are going to do whatever it takes to help disaster victims." --FEMA Director Michael Brown, Aug. 28, 2005 (Source)

23) "I don't make judgments about why people chose not to leave but, you know, there was a mandatory evacuation of New Orleans." –FEMA Director Michael Brown, arguing that the victims bear some responsibility, CNN interview, Sept. 1, 2005 (Source)

24) "I understand there are 10,000 people dead. It's terrible. It's tragic. But in a democracy of 300 million people, over years and years and years, these things happen." --GOP strategist Jack Burkman, on MSNBC's "Connected," Sept. 7, 2005 (Source)

25) "Thank President Clinton and former President Bush for their strong statements of support and comfort today. I thank all the leaders that are coming to Louisiana, and Mississippi and Alabama to our help and rescue. We are grateful for the military assets that are being brought to bear. I want to thank Senator Frist and Senator Reid for their extraordinary efforts. Anderson, tonight, I don't know if you've heard – maybe you all have announced it -- but Congress is going to an unprecedented session to pass a $10 billion supplemental bill tonight to keep FEMA and the Red Cross up and operating." –Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-LA), to CNN's Anderson Cooper, Aug. 31, 2005, to which Cooper responded:

"I haven't heard that, because, for the last four days, I've been seeing dead bodies in the streets here in Mississippi. And to listen to politicians thanking each other and complimenting each other, you know, I got to tell you, there are a lot of people here who are very upset, and very angry, and very frustrated. And when they hear politicians slap – you know, thanking one another, it just, you know, it kind of cuts them the wrong way right now, because literally there was a body on the streets of this town yesterday being eaten by rats because this woman had been laying in the street for 48 hours. And there's not enough facilities to take her up. Do you get the anger that is out here?" (Source)

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Quotes That Didn't Make the Top 25
"This is the largest disaster in the history of the United States, over an area twice the size of Europe. People have to understand this is a big, big problem.'' –Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska), Sept. 6, 2005 (Source)

"A young [black] man walks through chest deep floodwater after looting a grocery store in New Orleans..."
"Two [white] residents wade through chest-deep water after finding bread and soda from a local grocery store after Hurricane Katrina came through the area in New Orleans..." –captions at Yahoo News, Aug. 30, 2005 (Source)

"But I really didn't hear that at all today. People came up to me all day long and said 'God bless your son,' people of different races and it was very, very moving and touching, and they felt like when he flew over that it made all the difference in their lives, so I just don't hear that." –Former First Lady Barbara Bush to CNN's Larry King, after King asked her how she felt when people said that her son "doesn't care" about race, Sept. 5, 2005 (Source)

"I'm going to go home and walk my dog and hug my wife, and maybe get a good Mexican meal and a stiff margarita and a full night's sleep." –FEMA Director Michael Brown, on his plans after being relieved from his role managing Hurricane Katrina relief efforts, Sept. 9, 2005 (Source)

"Bureaucracy is not going to stand in the way of getting the job done for the people." –President Bush, Sept. 6, 2005 (Source)

"Louisiana's Senator Landrieu announced on network television, 'I might likely have to punch him, literally.' And my question, since 'him' is the President, and both punching and threatening to punch the President is a felony, has her qualifying words 'might likely' saved her from arrest and prosecution?" -unknown reporter to White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan, Sept. 6, 2005 (Source)

"As of Saturday (Sept. 3), Blanco still had not declared a state of emergency, the senior Bush official said." –Washington Post staff writers Manuel Roig-Franzia and Spencer Hsu, who didn't bother to fact-check the blatant lie peddled by the Bush administration as part of its attempts to pin blame on state and local officials, when, in fact, the emergency declaration had been made on Friday, Aug. 26 (Source)

"Just to get you on the record, where does the buck stop in this administration?" –White House reporter
"The President." –White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan, Sept. 6, 2005 (Source)
 

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