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(Unverified)Oct 1st 2009 3:56PM
Grant,
I accept everything you are saying - but you focused on my first sentence (which I should have omitted anyway) and ignored everything else.
We have a problem with accuracy and accountability in ALL media, and Huffington Post is not better or worse than the rest of our mainstream news sources. It's just different. While the NYTs probably wouldn't mistakenly post a 5 year old youtube video, it certainly has done more than its fair share to distort information to fit is own privileged worldview. As have most other for-profit corporate news sources.
It's almost unavoidable.
(Unverified)Oct 1st 2009 4:20PM
Sure, true neutral point of view is probably unattainable. A pure form of anything is rarely attainable, such is the curse of being human.
What's completely avoidable however, is failing to publish a correction. That's the chief issue here, the penultimate issue being the avoidance of a factually incorrect post altogether. I think it's a straw man argument to point at other instances of journalistic failure as a justification for continuing disintegration.
With the exponentially increased speed in which information spreads, the effort required to unearth a falsehood has declined as well. A minute or two of vetting -- likely without leaving YouTube, and consuming less time than it took to copy and paste the embed markup -- HuffPo could have avoided the error altogether. I don't understand -- and I don't think I ever will -- any argument which supports that brand of indolence as excusable.