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From: LindyBill1/7/2006 12:39:51 PM
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Instapundit - STEPHEN SPRUIELL at the National Review Media blog wonders if Bill Roggio's mistreatment by the Washington Post wasn't part of a trend:

The theme here, if you haven't already picked up on it, is that two major papers have used recent news reports about U.S. military information operations to try to discredit a pro-U.S. analyst and a pro-U.S. blogger. Both Rubin and Roggio write from a standpoint that is generally supportive of the U.S. mission in Iraq, and the NY Times and the Washington Post have attempted to portray their writings as untrustworthy and potentially motivated by financial considerations.

I think this has something to do with the fear and contempt some newspaper reporters feel towards online analysts and bloggers who don't buy into the objective model of journalism and are nevertheless taking a growing share of the news and analysis market. Writers like Rubin and Roggio, who have both traveled to Iraq and used the Internet to report their findings, are challenging the traditional gatekeeper role of papers like the Times and the Post, and some at those institutions don't like it. As true believers in the old school of objective reporting, they're seeking to discredit this new school of journalism - which has a clear point of view about its subject matter - as nothing but pro-U.S. propaganda.

But accuracy, fairness and honesty should count for a lot more than "objectivity," to the extent that the latter is even possible.

I'm glad that the folks at the Times and the Post are "true believers" in objective reporting.

Now if they'd just become true practitioners thereof. . . . But the shabby misrepresentations we've seen suggest that they're not even up to the "accuracy, fairness and honesty" part. Which is why, of course, they're losing readers to people like Roggio.
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