So it was really our fault for unfairly criticizing CNN and Drew Griffin (if he even read Byron York’s piece but just yanked a juicy Palin-bashing quote from a conservative source) as we should have known what they were trying to say, and that CNN would have caught and corrected the false impression without the prodding and meddling of untrained internet pests.
Byron York wrote, “Watching press coverage of the Republican candidate for vice president, it’s sometimes hard to decide whether Sarah Palin is incompetent, stupid, unqualified, corrupt, backward, or — or, well, all of the above.” Ironically, he was talking about nincompoops like Griffin and CNN.
Under normal circumstances, it would be the responsibility of the reporter to read a quote correctly and provide proper attribution, but to present someone’s criticism to another and not be able to tell that person where the quote came from is either lazy or got’cha journalism. We cannot ascertain which is the case here.
Not much of a correction here. More like a redirection of blame to we unwashed who had the nerve to question CNN and their professionalism in the first place.
“…either lazy or got’cha journalism.”
All of the above.
Quit givin’ them the benefit of the doubt, by now it should be quite obvious that the only logical conclusion would be the “gotcha journalism” — something which we used to call, “lying”.