Fake But Accurate, Part Deux?
ABC and the Washington Post learned a valuable lesson from CBS: when reporting a politically charged memo that may well be false, just report the text of the memo, don’t produce a copy of the memo itself for some blogger to verify. Powerline (whatever the hell that is) is on the story.
March 22nd, 2005 at 10:48 am
The daily show made a similar comment: Their mistake was reporting facts. Use inflexion.