Shoddy Left-Wing Journo Duo: "Two Finest Investigative Reporters In the Land"
Posted by: Clay Waters
6/20/2006 10:17:07 AM
In his "What's Online" tour of the business end of the blogsphere, Dan Mitchell on Saturday rages against the perfidy of Time magazine for firing two reporters "often cited as two of the finest investigative reporters in the land." (One of whose names he even manages to spell correctly.)
Under the headline “Baby, Meet Bathwater,” Mitchell huffs:
“For a nutshell explanation of what is wrought by corporate control of the news business, look no further than the short item posted this week by Steve Lovelady on The Columbia Journalism Review's blog, CJR Daily. Time Inc. paid $4 million for photographs of a baby (yes, that baby). A few weeks earlier, Time magazine, crying poverty, fired Donald Bartlett [sic] and James Steele -- often cited as two of the finest investigative reporters in the land.”
The MRC’s Brent Baker had a slightly different take on the journalistic acumen of Barlett and Steele. Responding to an earlier homage to the dynamic duo by CJR’s Lovelady, Baker rips into their shoddy left-wing reporting, calling their most notorious anti-Reagan, anti-tax-cut work at the Philadelphia Inquirer (later turned into a book called "America: What Went Wrong?") “ideologically-driven left-wing ‘journalism’ which should have embarrassed any journalist with pride in their profession.”
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