Mark Steyn: According to Script

National Review Online ^ | April 11, 2005 issue | Mark Steyn

[Constitution Day]

Ping!

[Pokey78]

Thanks CD!

Steyn ping!

[oh8eleven]

Excellent post.
Mark Steyn bttt ...

[Bar-Face]

I am sorry but I really don't see that much difference between AP's "straight" reporting and the "enhanced" version. A couple more flowery words but overall, it's same $h**, different day.

[Dog Gone]

The press has truly been shameful from the start. We were in a "quagmire" two days before Baghdad fell.

[COUNTrecount]

Thanks.

[JennysCool]

$h**, different day.

Different day of tears.

[Slip18]

Thanks for bring in Mark Steyn's article, CD!

[tioga]

of the 45 dead, 29 were “insurgents” themselves.

Ah, progress.......

[Red Badger]

They offer two versions of the truth? One is real, the other is a painted lady........

[GraceCoolidge]

You know, I thought the same thing. At first, I thought this piece was some kind of satire. It seemed too bizarre to be real. Mark Steyn had another column once (it's in his book, that's where I read it) about the preference of reporters to "ponder" rather than report the facts. I recall him ascribing a lot of shoddy journalism to the reluctance of reporters to "get their shoes a little dirty" and actually seek out facts; they'd rather have a little bit of facts and then endlessly ponder their "meaning." He actually came out in a somewhat spirited defense of tabloid journalism. It's a very good column. I think he really has a solid take on the failings of mainstream journalism today.

[An Old Marine]

Yet another example why the MSM simply does not mean anything anymore. This kind of nonsense makes you wonder exactly how much of their audisnce they have to lose before they make some effort to save themselves from total irrelevance. Or perhaps the economics of no viewers will do it for them as CBS News is learning.

[LeGrande]

Mark is good :)

Just a ping. I am going to use this against a guy who worships the AP.

[Atlas Sneezed]

I'd like to see three versions. A liberal one, a conservative one, and a neutral one.

Let them squirm trying to make the one they claim is neutral different from the liberal one.

Would make a good journalism school assignment, huh?

[hopespringseternal]

I tuned out the Iraq coverage a long time ago. I figured about one out of a hundred stories made any attempt to be accurate, the rest were just contrived background for the New York Times editorial page.

[Waco]

Ap "Propagrandizement"?

[metesky]

Steyn slices and dices.

[aculeus]

One day in the future, we’ll dig out the yellowing clips and wonder how America managed to lose every daily battle and yet still win the war.