Sometimes the right goes too far


Just because Newsweek made a mistake is no reason to go after everyone else in the press. John Cole takes on Hugh Hewitt
Radly Balko at TheAgitator.com tipped his readers off to this one.

John Cole writes :

"Reporting on abuses that have been committed by our troops, in our name, is not anti-military. While I am not arrogant enough to attempt to divine the motives of every journalist who reports on such abuses, Hugh appears to be up to the challenge. I find his attack on the reporting of the outrageous abuses detailed at length in the NY Times to be both disturbing and disingenuous.

"Apparently in the myopic worldview of Mr. Hewitt, reading and reporting the just-released documents the Army itself created is both 'anti-military' and 're-hashing' an old story. Let's not focus on the fact that few, if any, have been punished for these transgressions. Let's not focus on credible reports that these incidents continue to occur. Instead, if Hewitt is to have his way, we should all focus on the 'anti-military' stance of the media."

I couldn't agree more.

Each story should be considered on it's own merits and according to the standards of journalism. The Newsweek story was a f***up, but the NY Times story doesn't look like anything except honest (if biased) reporting. I believe that advocacy journalism is good, as long as it doesn't pretend to be anything else.

Here's an article showing conservative bias that you won't find Hewitt talking about. It shows absolutely horrible abuse, especially by clergy. But somehow between the original reports and the Fox story, the church became Satanic. There is a pretty good discussion of that at Wren's Nest.

— NeoWayland

Posted: Mon - May 23, 2005 at 10:42 PM  Tag


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