My question was: And what's this with Clark making that crack to the journalists and then backing Kerry?
The American Prospect: Tapped's Nick Confessore reports:
WHAT CLARK NEVER SAID. It's been taken for granted that Wesley Clark helped set off certain now-debunked rumors about John Kerry. Clark was "reported" by Matt Drudge to have told a group of reporters that "Kerry will implode over an intern issue" during an off-the-record conversation. But The New Republic's Ryan Lizza was among those reporters, and says Clark never made any such statement. Lizza says he's checked with the others who were there, and they concur. Which makes sense; the whole thing was out of character for Clark in the first place. Lizza's post deserves wide attention, lest this particular mythlet live on.
I've been reading up on the media blackout and lie-fest that characterized the failed coup d'etat in Venezuela two years ago, and it simply drives home the reality brought to you in the Tapped post: too many "journalists" have lost their credibility, and certainly their integrity. Of course there are still some who haven't - Al Giordano calls them "authentic journalists" - but there are way too many who have. Like everything else in this country that began as a public service, journalism has become just another business.
....but hey, do what you want....you will anyway.
Friday, February 20, 2004
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