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Let’s say you have a journalistic choice to make. You can promote one of two types of people: editors who think your paper’s credulous coverage of non-existent weapons that set off a disastrous war is a big deal; and those who don’t. Read Jason Linkins and learn which way the Washington Post chose to go.
But That’s Just Common Sense |
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| By: Spencer Ackerman Wednesday January 21, 2009 5:30 pm | |
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Up to this point, one must make the determination that whatever journalism has become in this foul millennium, it is most certainly not a meritocracy.
Being right, particularly repeatedly, and on very large issues of the day, will get you nothing but a long-delayed grudging acknowledgment that in spite of not being wrong, you are shrill and uncivil and should therefore be banished to a place where you never have the option of making them look bad by being right again.
Nope, the key to advancement is to carry the water, no matter how often and how dreadfully you are wrong. And it’s critical to never acknowledge your overarching wrongness, even as you “refine” your positions repeatedly.
It is as if the selection criterea was for serial failure…
mikey