Good last point: What is the difference between contemplated solutions to difficult problems and actual behavior [Hot Type, March 4]? Too bad there wasn’t a good answer.
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If the test tells us something valid, then we have to accept the fact that journalists are incompetent. Either they lie or they screw up. Whichever it is, they do it a lot. And this article tells us they don’t make stuff up, don’t out spies or witnesses in mob trials, don’t frame stories to make the liberals’ villains look bad (military, conservatives, conservative Christians, Republicans) on purpose. It’s just an accident. Over and over and over.
PBS and others have chin pullers with journalists thinking deep thoughts about this question. The answer is always the same. The general public suffers from fetal alcohol syndrome.
Little things like that.
