Tuesday, November 22, 2005

Lazy Journalism.....on the Right

Many of you have by now heard stories of the imfamous X superimposed over VP Cheney's face during his live speech yesterday on CNN.

Don't be too quick to jump on this one. CNN and the rest of the liberal media may be bias agenda driven jerks, but stupid they are not. For you to believe this was intentional you must also believe that CNN did this knowing it would be picked up and lambasted by the right. There is no way a rogue employee is going to risk his job for such a stupid stunt and obviously the management wouldn't risk the inevitable blowback that would ensue.

I think Evan Maloney says it best: "never ascribe to malice that which can be explained by incompetence". If we wish to expose bias against the right from the liberal press we must do our homework and not try and cherry pick something as obvious and sophomoric as this. To believe this is to underestimate the opposition, a naive and intellectually dangerous vantage to defend. Let us not forget, that position is reserved for the left.

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