First of all - Eason Jordon brought about his own undoing by lying through his teeth. And .. I do believe it was a bonefide journalist who first reported what Jordan said, albeit on the internet.
Secondly, "the middle step was all but skipped." Yes it was .. because the MSM has become irrelevant - just like the democrats.
Thirdly, "we used to control the speed" - loosely translated - WE USED TO BE ABLE TO HIDE THIS STUFF BETTER!
"Reporters seem to think they've done an adequate job just because they give both sides a chance to state their case," Lovelady says. "But if that's all you do, you may have satisfied the imagined constraints of objectivity, but often you haven't told the reader anything.
"It's the most common and infuriating flaw in the press today. Reporters just don't measure what each side said against the known facts. It shouldn't just be he said/she said. It should be he said/she said/we say -- and here's why we say it."
September 7, 2004