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Politics : Bill Clinton Scandal - SANITY CHECK -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Johnathan C. Doe who wrote (36512)	3/3/1999 3:20:00 AM
From: Dwight E. Karlsen	Respond to of 67261

>But surely that role calls for a greater exercise in news judgment than was evident in the "Jane Doe No. 5" episode.< this is getting too easy: I'll just copy my response to the other story: "but boy, when we're going after a Clarence Thomas or a Bob Packwood, by golly that's different! We'll cover the first sniffs in the wind. We'll cover the feminist comments on the sniffs in the wind. We'll cover the calls made by the feminists for all who have been "harassed" by Packwood, to please make yourself known and come forward, altar-call style, and have your justice. Take your time, or be speedy! We don't care, we'll cover it from beginning to end! We'll cover every Packwood diary entry in intimate detail, dissecting every line on at least page 3. Twenty years ago, you say it was? No problem! We'll print it! We'll have the public gnashing their teeth over the evilness of it all! And oh! Will we cover a Senate grilling of an Anita Hill! We'll stop the weather report, we'll stop the traffic report. We'll stop the music. We'll cover it for every hour, for every minute that anyone in Congress is speaking on these weighty matters. At least, we used to do it that way. Now, we're more judicious. After all, that's OUR MAN up there! You've just got to understand our plight. We had no idea he was like that. Really. We wish someone had warned us. But alas, it's just a little late in the game for woulda coulda shouldas, isn't it? So now, we're just a little more judicious in our (sniff) "Journalistic Standards". That's it. We'll really pound the table on our "heavy responsibilities". The "need to be cautious". To "check out all the facts" before "jumping in". We go slowww. We put him in there, and now we're in a pickle.