Commentary magazine, an influential American monthly, has published an excellent article by the Anglo-American journalist Jonathan Foreman on the humiliations suffered by the British media.
Until this year, Anglophile Americans managed somehow to excuse our tabloid excesses as "enthusiastic" coverage, and press intrusion as a "celebrity craze". But the two scandals that broke out in 2011 – Hackgate and Harigate – have exposed Britain's media as mendacious and deeply biased. Interestingly, Foreman maintains that it is not Hackgate that strikes Americans as the most outrageous flouting of media ethics; they simply can't get over the Hari whitewash.
Johann Hari's rise and fall could have happened in America, too. Janet Cooke, Stephen Glass, Jayson Blair: these young journalists were all similarly exposed as plagiarists....read more
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/cristinaodone/100121232/us-magazine-argues-johann-hari-is-getting-away-with-it-because-he-is-anti-israel-and-anti-usa/
Until this year, Anglophile Americans managed somehow to excuse our tabloid excesses as "enthusiastic" coverage, and press intrusion as a "celebrity craze". But the two scandals that broke out in 2011 – Hackgate and Harigate – have exposed Britain's media as mendacious and deeply biased. Interestingly, Foreman maintains that it is not Hackgate that strikes Americans as the most outrageous flouting of media ethics; they simply can't get over the Hari whitewash.
Johann Hari's rise and fall could have happened in America, too. Janet Cooke, Stephen Glass, Jayson Blair: these young journalists were all similarly exposed as plagiarists....read more
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/cristinaodone/100121232/us-magazine-argues-johann-hari-is-getting-away-with-it-because-he-is-anti-israel-and-anti-usa/
