David Catron
William Tecumseh Sherman famously said, “If I had my choice I would kill every reporter in the world, but I am sure we would be getting reports from Hell before breakfast.” Sherman’s boss, Ulysses S. Grant, was more diplomatic in his memoirs: “Correspondents of the press were… not always disposed to report correctly what did not confirm their preconceived notions.” Sherman’s hyperbole and Grant’s understatement remind us that journalistic malpractice is nothing new, while providing helpful insight for anyone struggling to reconcile years of “news” stories claiming that Obamacare was working with today’s portentous reports that it is collapsing......To Read More.....
William Tecumseh Sherman famously said, “If I had my choice I would kill every reporter in the world, but I am sure we would be getting reports from Hell before breakfast.” Sherman’s boss, Ulysses S. Grant, was more diplomatic in his memoirs: “Correspondents of the press were… not always disposed to report correctly what did not confirm their preconceived notions.” Sherman’s hyperbole and Grant’s understatement remind us that journalistic malpractice is nothing new, while providing helpful insight for anyone struggling to reconcile years of “news” stories claiming that Obamacare was working with today’s portentous reports that it is collapsing......To Read More.....
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