Poynter Online – Forums If you want to read some good probing material in the form of letters written by journalists about journalism, then go here. I found the one below to be worth citing.

From FRED VULTEE: So Tim Graham thinks an editorial calling for a special prosecutor in the Plame case is actually “a crusading editorial for eventually putting Miller in jail”? Let’s see if we can follow his reasoning here:

Editorial calls for X
Undesirable event Y follows X
Therefore editorial called for Y

So, anybody who editorialized in favor of the war in Iraq was actually crusading for the use of roadside bombs against American troops? Just wondering what the party line is over at the Media Research Center these days.

Most of the chit-chat is about the White House/Novak/Miller/Rove leak. It’s at a good simmer. Let’s see if it boils over.



  1. Bill Lockwood says:

    didn’t we use to call this ‘post hoc, ergo propter hoc…’ ?

  2. Bill Lockwood says:

    hey! didn’t we use to call this Post hoc ergo propter hoc ? Thank Gawd for the wonders of modern journalists; may they ,someday, re-discover Journalism.

  3. site admin says:

    Post hoc ergo propter hoc? Man, those days are over.


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