Jonah's Wail [1]
Submitted by Sheldon Rampton [2] on
"What happens when media monitors mangle journalism in ways far more severe than the work they're supposed to be appraising?" asks Eric Boehlert, analyzing a supposed critique of liberal media bias [3] by conservative pundit Jonah Goldberg [4]. Boehlert catches Goldberg in numerous distortions and outright falsehoods. In one example, Goldberg falsely claims that Barack Obama [5] walked into a window in the Oval Office, and then criticizes the media for failing to report it. "Poorly sourced and constructed around lazy, clichéd writing -- and in a couple of cases, outright falsehoods -- Goldberg's piece simply illustrated how, rather than illuminating shortfalls of the press, conservatives often just create more work for the rest of us," Boehlert writes.