Reporting Lies
by TChris
Dan Froomkin makes an important point today about the inability of the traditional news media to call a lie "a lie" -- at least when it's spoken by President Bush.
Lying is probably the one word mainstream journalists are the most averse to using when recounting what the president said -- even when they know he's not telling the truth.
Why can't reporters brand a known falsehood as a lie?
It just won't get by the editors.
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