WaPo is having a deserved moment of schadenfreude:
A woman who falsely claimed to The Washington Post that Roy Moore, the Republican U.S. Senate candidate in Alabama, impregnated her as a teenager appears to work with an organization that uses deceptive tactics to secretly record conversations in an effort to embarrass its targets.
In a series of interviews over two weeks, the woman shared a dramatic story about an alleged sexual relationship with Moore in 1992 that led to an abortion when she was 15. During the interviews, she repeatedly pressed Post reporters to give their opinions on the effects that her claims could have on Moore’s candidacy if she went public.
The Post did not publish an article based on her unsubstantiated account. When Post reporters confronted her with inconsistencies in her story and an Internet posting that raised doubts about her motivations, she insisted that she was not working with any organization that targets journalists.
But on Monday morning, Post reporters saw her walking into the New York offices of Project Veritas, an organization that targets the mainstream news media and left-leaning groups. The organization sets up undercover “stings” that involve using false cover stories and covert video recordings meant to expose what the group says is media bias.
For those who think the media just makes up stories, this is either another bit of fake news, or, if they take life a little more seriously than most, a counter-example of just how far the mainstream media goes to substantiate its stories.
In other words, they don’t just make shit up.
But there’s a deeper point here. One of the phenomenon associated with the Internet has been the diminishment and demise of traditional newspapers – that is, mainstream media. Staffs are down, coverage is shallower, and overall, we find that we may have more information, but its quality is far poorer than it used to be. For instance, if you get your news from Fox News or, referencing back to here, WorldNetDaily, you’re getting awfully thin gruel.
But this is a demonstration of how a good paper works on stories, getting details, worrying away at inconsistencies, until it has something – or nothing. Does this strike you as good, honest journalism? It had better – the vapid crap at Fox, et al, is often slanted to get an emotional reaction that it can work with to manipulate your actions.
Your votes.
And do you pay for your access to a reputable news source? Yes, I pay for the digital edition of WaPo – started a month or two ago as I began to realize how much I used it.
And, yes, I too am amused by the idea that Project Veritas, which means Truth, resorts to lies and subterfuge as it searches for its hated “bias”. Boys, maybe you should consider just what media bias really means.
