Friday, June 30, 2006

Why Do They Get Themselves Into These Situations? USA TODAY Backs Away From Wiretap Report

USA TODAY appears to be the latest newspaper to make extravagant pronouncements about gloom and doom government actions in the war on terror, then retracts part or all of the story when they can't back up their original reports with hard facts upon closer examination.

One would have thought that they would have learned their lesson from works of fiction from CBS News and Time magazine among others.

They really need to go back to Journalism 101 with regards to sourcing and not relying too much on speculation or rumor as hard fact.

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