The Press: Time for a New Era?

WSL.com ^ | Monday, July 28, 2003 12:01 a.m. EDT | ROBERT L. BARTLEY

[swilhelm73]

With the New York Times and the British Broadcasting Corp. both in the soup, something big must be going on in journalism.

Let me give you one view of what that is, based on watching my craft evolve over 30 years as a senior editor. I think we're coming to the end of the era of "objectivity" that has dominated journalism over this time. We need to define a new ethic that lends legitimacy to opinion, honestly disclosed and disciplined by some sense of propriety.

[swilhelm73]

Looks like the leftist media really is on the ropes...finally. We conservatives cannot afford to let them recover and go back to their normal bias.

[Semper Paratus]

But it develops that an earlier Gilligan report from Baghdad suggested that U.S. troops had not taken the airport when in fact they had.

Bet I guess the name of the source for that gem.

[itsahoot]

This happened 50 years ago, he is just now figured it out....Har, har, har.

[Malesherbes]

I take pleasure in the current difficulties of both the Times and the BBC, but I am not a great fan of Bartley whose editorials in the WSJ supported both globalism and open borders. He, like A.M. Rosenthal, is an economic conservative, not a social one, and one without the other will not stand.

[Radix]

The left wing media is so out of control with their bias that they need to be put away. No problem, they are taking care of it themselves. They consistantly prove themselves to be irrelevant. The one thing that will end their irresponsible practices is and always has been the market.

They constantly insult the intelligence of the very people who make up their market. They are destroyng their own industry, and as far as I am concerned, it cannot be completed soon enough.

The numbers will indicate that circulation of the biggest papers, and viewership of the networks news programs is down. There is a reason. The very persons who are interested in news are no longer willing to accept their contaminated product.

[LexBaird]

But it develops that an earlier Gilligan report from Baghdad suggested that U.S. troops had not taken the airport when in fact they had.

Bet I guess the name of the source for that gem.

A coconut fell on Gilligan's head and he dreamed the whole thing up?