Almost the entire blogosphere, including the Dish, is mocking Arthur Brisbane for his post on whether the NYT should be interested in the truth. Jack Shafer is an exception:
I think [Brisbane] was asking how fully reporters must tweeze every utterance spoken by newsmakers. Politics teems with gray areas and half-truths. If a reporter were to investigate every assertion of fact — assuming that that’s possible on deadline — the story he was supposed to be working on would dissolve into pixel dust.
Infinite skepticism is swell, but it requires infinite fact-checking, and who has time for that? There’s a longstanding joke among journalists about what an infinitely vetted wedding announcement would look like: "A couple representing itself as Mr. and Mrs. John Smith say they hosted a reception Saturday, to commemorate what they claimed was the marriage of their son, in an apartment on Park Avenue that they assert they own." As Edgar Allan Poe once put it, we crave "journalism in lieu of dissertation."
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