Eugene David
...The One-Minute Pundit

Tuesday, May 27, 2003


WELL! Judging from today's Romenesko, the news biz is in a TIZ. A food writer gets fired for plagiarism in two columns that never ran, the Washington Post is kicking itself over anonymous sources, yadayadayada, but of course, it's the wrong kind of tiz. So long they reduce the industry's woes to mere factual errors or copying or sourcing or byline stealing -- the strictly mechanical stuff -- news hacks don't have to face the real problems that threaten to destroy them: bias, salesmanship, and of course, their ever-lovin' ATTITUDE.

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