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5:36 PM
by Gene
'New York Times' Reviews Howell Raines's Memoir, Finds It LackingAnd that's more than
its WISHY-WASHY POWERLESS OMBUDSPOOP would have done.
But what Espen calls "the most frustrating omission in Raines's apologia is the lack of anything specific and useful about how the craft of journalism and editorial management can be practiced in a manner that intercepts and corrects or eliminates the feckless errors and fabulist concoctions of bad reporters...."Alas, like the poor, the feckless errors and fabulist concotions of reporters will always be with us.