Monday, June 06, 2005
WaPo via Romenesko
Media's reputation has sunk like a stone since Watergate
Washington PostOne reason, according to Howard Kurtz, is that some in the next generation of reporters pumped up many modest flaps into scandals ending in "gate," sometimes using less than reliable anonymous sources. "Journalism became a more confrontational, even prosecutorial business, with some of its practitioners automatically assuming that politicians in the post-Nixon era must be lying, dissembling or covering up," he writes.
He left out "or disseminating self-serving crap". ¶ 6/06/2005 04:31:00 PM
Washington PostOne reason, according to Howard Kurtz, is that some in the next generation of reporters pumped up many modest flaps into scandals ending in "gate," sometimes using less than reliable anonymous sources. "Journalism became a more confrontational, even prosecutorial business, with some of its practitioners automatically assuming that politicians in the post-Nixon era must be lying, dissembling or covering up," he writes.
He left out "or disseminating self-serving crap". ¶ 6/06/2005 04:31:00 PM
