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TODAY?S MEDIA lead where no one follows. ?And this is hardly an isolated incident. It?s understan?

By Glenn Reynolds

TODAY’S MEDIA lead where no one follows. “And this is hardly an isolated incident. It?s understandable that journalists would want to set the national agenda by providing new information. That?s their job. But sometimes the press just won?t take no for an answer, when the public refuses to see events the same way. . . . Obviously, even The New York Times eventually got the story right, and the facts eventually won out (though apologies have yet to materialize). But it is also abundantly clear that many of the people and institutions piously speechifying about the desperate need to moderate the political discourse had no problem falsely indicting others in a horrendous murder, not because they knew the charge was true but solely because they desperately wanted it to be.”

UPDATE: How the Obama Campaign Created the ?Palin Incites Violence? Meme.

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on January 16, 2011 (boomark / email).