"http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/30/arts/television/30media.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
Reflection and Red Faces After the Ramsey Storm"
I'll bet when this is over, that the ame NYT doesn't print anything about "red faces after the Duke storm".
Probably all of the media will cover for themselves--never explain, never apologize, just keep moving right along. . .
"There is no true moral responsibility (in the press) for distortion or disporportion. . . If they (the journalists) have misled public opinion by inaccurate information or wrong conclusions. . . do we know of any case of open regret voiced by the same journalist or the same newspaper?. . . A nation may be the worse for such a mistake, but the journalist always gets away with it. It is most likely that he will start writing the exact opposite to his previous statement with renewed aplomb. . ."
Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Harvard, 1978