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This installment of The American Enterprise is all about poor reporting. Unfortunately, there is enough of it out there that the issue was depressingly easy to put together.
I'm not talking about media lies like those generated by Jayson Blair, the New York Times reporter who was recently discovered to have simply fabricated dozens and dozens of stories, quotes, and facts--without the folks at his august employer ever figuring out that they had a pathological liar writing on their front pages. I'm talking about a much more endemic problem, a more permanent and serious trauma. I'm referring to the mistakes, manipulations, and misimpressions fomented by journalists ...