The Future vs. the Past

Susanna Cornett from Cut on the Bias sends a letter to columnist Ed Wasserman who writes on the “dead tree” Philadelphia Inquirer (and doesn’t think very much about non-journalists expressing their opinions and having them widely disseminated).

I just read your column, printed in the Philadelphia Inquirer, about pressure on the mainstream media to cover the news in a certain way. As a former journalist with a degree in journalism, I have some sympathy for your position. Certainly news media have a responsibility to report the news honestly and fairly without bowing to outside pressures to skew it.

But what happens when the news media get it wrong? What redress does the average citizen have when it happens repeatedly, and there's no genuine effort on the part of the mainstream media to correct either their approach or their obvious mistakes?

Read the whole thing HERE.