The Old Media is for all practical purposes above the law.
Aside from the relatively new ability of the private citizen to publicly bust them in a demonstrable lie (as we here did in Memogate), they cannot be policed from the outside. This new private ability is of as yet uncertain potency. For the time being, the Old Media continues able to escape serious financial and legal ruination as consequence of misdeeds of scale and import sufficient to land anyone else in jail or in the morgue.
Unless and until that changes, or they are given compelling motive to honestly and effectively police themselves from the inside, they will continue to do as Newsweek and CBS have done.
It is not sloppiness: It is the ARROGANCE of the Untouchably Safe, playing power games without risk of consequences to themselves.
is it bump my thread day? seems everywhere I look I see you. hehe.
Don't dismiss sheer incompetence just yet. I was forced to dump Newsweek in 1964 (thereabouts). The trend was there and the last straw was a story on how people living on social security were "starving" because they could only spare $26 per week on food. I felt sorry for a few minutes. Then I realized my wife and I were spending less than half that rate on food and eating very "high on the hog": Filet Mignon cookouts at least once a week, and lots of other (relatively) expensive foods. Had we needed to scrimp by we could have gotten by on $5 per week. So Newsweek's story was completely bogus and meant only to propagandize about Social Security.
I claim they are biased because they are both poorly educated and poorly informed.