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Right wing news and talk radio were gleeful when reports circulated that Paul Krugman had declared bankruptcy.
Except it wasn't true.
Paul Krugman thought the whole incident was pretty funny.
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Date: 2013-03-12 10:00 pm (UTC)Pfft
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Date: 2013-03-13 05:37 am (UTC)http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Journalism/2013/02/12/Washington-Post-Falls-For-Hoax-Palin-Story-Palin-Hits-Back-on-Twitter
Brietbart.com's author criticized the Washington Post for being weaselly in its correction. Notice that Brietbart.com has posted no correction, they simply removed the article, even though their own search still tries to point to it.
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Date: 2013-03-13 02:27 pm (UTC)I wouldn't hold one author on LiveJournal responsible for the mistakes of the other.
But I would expect that at an organization like a newspaper, there would be an overarching quality control and editorial voice, such that when the paper in general does what it criticizes in others, one is valid in calling out its hypocrisy.
So, is Brietbart.com more like a newspaper? Or is it more like LiveJournal?
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Date: 2013-03-13 02:31 pm (UTC)I don't think it's especially damning to quote the Boston Globe, and then remove the post when you learn that the Globe got hoodwinked. The problem with this post is the missing context - the assumption that it was Breitbart who got hoodwinked by the false source while leaving unspoken the Globe's error.
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Date: 2013-03-13 02:51 pm (UTC)> that the Globe got hoodwinked.
It isn't JUST the Globe that got hoodwinked.
The reason why this kind of behavior is frustrating, and why we should hold the Globe, Brietbart.com, and the Washington Post (in the previous instance) up to ridicule and derision, is that such events demonstrate how little journalistic 'work' they can get by on. A news organization is supposed to check the facts, not simply re-transmit. The reason we are extra suspicious of 'partisan media' is partly our suspicion that they will check less carefully that which matches their narrative. That's why the criticisms here of Brietbart.com, as well as Nolte's of the Washington Post, are so apt. The players are revealed as Repeaters Of Tidbits, and they don't even bother to check very carefully what they are repeating.
That kind of thing is fine for individuals talking on a blog. We expect something more from news organizations. The only question is, does Brietbart.com, as an entity, put on airs of being a news organization?
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Date: 2013-03-13 04:57 pm (UTC)I agree completely. This piece at HuffPo (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/steven-greenhut/media-bias_b_2859610.html) made a lot of sense anyway, doubly so in the context of this post. \
The reason we are extra suspicious of 'partisan media' is partly our suspicion that they will check less carefully that which matches their narrative.
Well, the problem is that, with some exceptions, people are merely more suspicious of media that doesn't match their narrative when it comes to partisan sources. The same people who will ridicule Breitbart love quoting Media Matters, the same people who deride ThinkProgress will then link to WorldNetDaily. It's better to be skeptical of all media, blatantly partisan media moreso than the others. That doesn't happen enough.
The only question is, does Brietbart.com, as an entity, put on airs of being a news organization?
Not any more so than, say, Huffington or Salon.
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Date: 2013-03-13 10:22 am (UTC)Also, can you draft up a list of prices for Armed Robbery, Fraud, and Murder? I'm going to Vegas this spring and want to sock away enough cash.
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Date: 2013-03-12 10:05 pm (UTC)That's why it's called Macro-Economics. Unless someone comes up with a unified economic theory, it will always be like that.
Gotta love Breitbart's copy-pasta
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Date: 2013-03-13 06:04 pm (UTC)Also, I fail to see how that website is satirical. Not everything on The Onion is funny in my opinion but you can usually see the punchline. I fail to see the joke here other than that the author seems not to understand how personal debt differs from national debt and how national debt can be stimulative while personal debt cannot.