POLITICO criticized for media bias story
llegations such as this led to a wave of criticism from outlets ranging from Talking Points Memo to GQ to the Washington Post’s media blog, as well as stern rebuttals from editors at both the Post and the Times.
“It’s effectively an unsigned house editorial. And it levied a change of journalistic malpractice at two of Politico’s biggest rivals,” Devin Gordon, a senior editor at GQ, wrote. “The house position of Politico, as evidenced by this piece, is that they are fair and their chief competition is not. It’s a thinly disguised, fundamentally craven argument for Politico’s superiority in the world of political coverage. Let’s call this article for what it was. It wasn’t journalism. It was business.”
Josh Marshall, the editor of Talking Points Memo, called it “an astonishingly bad piece of reporting/analysis” and accused POLITICO of being “a bit notorious for using its news pages to attack key rivals, whether that’s in pieces like this or pieces nominally slotted as ‘media’ coverage.” (Via Twitter, Marshall explained that that was “not an aspersion” on this blog.)
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5/31/12
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