State Dept Supported Press Freedom

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Rick Moran writes about

… the horrible job done by reporters who wrote about the statement yesterday by the US State Department regarding the Danish cartoons. The official statement on the matter came from spokesman Sean McCormick at the daily press briefing. Here, the Department issues a ringing defense of freedom of the press:

Rick points out the the thoughtful, several paragraph official State Department comment on the matter did not back off from supporting freedom of the press. Unfortunately, the press (whose freedom is being defended) chose to pcik out unrepresentative snippets from lower-level State Department officers, comments which were made off-the-cuff, an answers to questions.

As always, Rick gets it right. Read the whole thing.

Comments

  1. The Sanity Inspector wrote:

    P. J. O’Rourke called this kind of lazy reporting “writing the lede on the way to the ballpark.”

    Posted 05 Feb 2006 at 6:13 pm

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