I think is pretty self-explanatory. Here are some links:
http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=tom+delay+ethics&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/ 2005/03/27/politics/main683332.shtml
Sunday, May 08, 2005
Wednesday, March 23, 2005
Unfair and Unbalanced
In the ever futile attempt to maintain objectivity and provide balance in the media C-SPAN has bested all other media outlets combined.
A professor had been sued for libel by a rival historian and successfully defended the suit. She then went onto to write a book about the experience. A lecture in support of the book was going to be taped for airing on C-SPAN. In order to show balance and give the "other side" of the story., C-SPAN was going to give the rival who felt libeled a chance to support his side of the story.
Well, one may say, that seems fair. We all know how fickle courts can be. Maybe there was a real controversy? We should be open to hear all sides and decide for ourselves -- they report, we decide. Sounds nice.
Turns out, the "rival" is a Holocaust denier, that a British judge labeled an anti-Semite and a bigot in throwing out his case for libel. The work of this so-called historian is riddled with errors and falsehoods such as no one was killed at Auschwitz, let alone in gas chamber. Needless to say, this person, David Irving, does not deserve any airtime to espouse falsehoods. Conversely, Deborah Lipstadt, is a noted Holocaust scholar.
Maybe C-SPAN could show WEB DuBois debate someone from the KKK about whether there was actually slavery in the US (I know WEB Dubois is dead, but it is a good analogy); they can run something on Neil Armstrong and then have those guys on that deny the moon landing; and so on and so on.
C-SPAN is confusing journalism with stupidity.
http://mediamatters.org/items/200503180002
A professor had been sued for libel by a rival historian and successfully defended the suit. She then went onto to write a book about the experience. A lecture in support of the book was going to be taped for airing on C-SPAN. In order to show balance and give the "other side" of the story., C-SPAN was going to give the rival who felt libeled a chance to support his side of the story.
Well, one may say, that seems fair. We all know how fickle courts can be. Maybe there was a real controversy? We should be open to hear all sides and decide for ourselves -- they report, we decide. Sounds nice.
Turns out, the "rival" is a Holocaust denier, that a British judge labeled an anti-Semite and a bigot in throwing out his case for libel. The work of this so-called historian is riddled with errors and falsehoods such as no one was killed at Auschwitz, let alone in gas chamber. Needless to say, this person, David Irving, does not deserve any airtime to espouse falsehoods. Conversely, Deborah Lipstadt, is a noted Holocaust scholar.
Maybe C-SPAN could show WEB DuBois debate someone from the KKK about whether there was actually slavery in the US (I know WEB Dubois is dead, but it is a good analogy); they can run something on Neil Armstrong and then have those guys on that deny the moon landing; and so on and so on.
C-SPAN is confusing journalism with stupidity.
http://mediamatters.org/items/200503180002
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