A lot of people, really. And the week isn’t even half finished. But here are some folks who’ve had it especially rough so far.
Shirley Sherrod. The former employee of the US Department of Agriculture was forced to resign after a misleading video of her was posted on a rather ironically-named website, and later picked up [...]
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Has objective news become an anachronism?
This morning I came across the story of Jonathan Springston, former senior staff writer for Atlanta Progressive News, an online news outlet. Springston was cut loose from APN for, as editor Matthew Cardinale told Creative Loafing, “[holding] on to the notion that there was an objective reality that could be reported objectively, despite the fact [...]
"Basically, the atheists are just stupid."
When you read an incisive, erudite piece of analysis like the above quote, you just know it’s from a highly-informed and respectable source, someone with the pedigree of a, say, Bill O’Reilly or Ann Coulter. Sure enough, it comes from O’Reilly talking to Coulter yesterday on Fox News, that echo chamber of disingenuous hillbilly claptrap. [...]