Brad DeLong often rages at the poor quality of our national press corps but even the people he criticizes seem to have quite high standards, compared to the technology press. Legitimate newsmedia don’t have the problem of articles that quote blogs and pretend they’ve conducted an interview or journalists who do no research whatsoever and just write down any criticism they can find, no matter how blatant the lie.
Well, maybe the mainstream and political press do have problems with the blatant lying part. But I haven’t seen the mainstream press use such sloppy attribution that it quotes a website and implies it’s actually spoken with the writer.
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