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September 17, 2005

Another MSM screw-up

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The blogosphere is continually lectured by MSM elites that we are unreliable and inferior because we lack the infrastructure of editors and supposed fact—checkers to vet what we publish and ensure accuracy. All that we have instead is a connection to our audience, who cheerfully inform us of any mistakes, and the ability to go back and correct our posts, with a hat tip to the well—informed reader, when he or she is willing to be identified.

Everyone, of course, makes mistakes from time to time. But the vaunted talents of the editors and fact—checkers in the MSM appear to be a bit overstated. The latest example is the Chicago Tribune which has twice in recent days printed a picture of the wrong men identifying them