Posted on 05/19/2005 6:44:24 AM PDT by Nick Thimmesch
With all the controversy surrounding Newsweek’s retraction of it’s Koran flushing story, it’s interesting that there is a book by Congressional Quarterly columnist & MSNBC analyst Craig Crawford (you can read his column via a link on The Drudge Report) that addresses the issue of media credibility called “Attack The Messenger”. National Journal’s Hotline has a free link to the book in its morning publication, “Wake Up Call” under “Hair of the Dog”: http://nationaljournal.com/avantgo/wakeup.htm
AMAZON SMACKDOWN (a sampling of rankings as of 6:35 am): "Attack The Messenger, How Politicians Turn You Against The Media" by Craig Crawford: 879; "Big Russ & Me" by Tim Russert (new paperback): 940; "Taking Heat" by Ari Fleischer: 11,128; "Dog Days" by Ana Marie Cox: 232,056.
Crawford's a crybaby. Don't publish bogus stories, don't interpret news in a biased manner and no one will attack you. The media acts like it' such a glorious and important thing until someone calls it on its problems then its just a messenger.
ping
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