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Salon: All the News Stuff That's Fit to Print (2/17/06) by Farhad Manjoo
Newspapers under financial strain from profit-driven corporate owners are increasingly producing "something of a Hail Mary pass" in free spin-off publications, which are also remarkably free of in-depth content and "are no longer serving as a vehicle to hold leaders accountable." (Ad-viewing required.)
Plus Salon: Dick Cheney, Responsibility Acceptor (2/16/06) by Tim Grieve. The New York Times' David Sanger and Anne Kornblut, reporting on Dick Cheney's Fox interview about his shooting his hunting partner, claim that Cheney's "approach to the interview was to deal with the accident as he might deal with a policy decision that turned out badly and to accept responsibility as a way of moving on."
Hello? Maybe we've missed something over the last five years, but we're having a hard time conjuring up memories of Dick Cheney even acknowledging that any "policy decisions" have "turned out badly," let alone "accepting responsibility" for them. This is, after all, the man who said... "What we did in Iraq was exactly the right thing to do. If I had it to recommend all over again, I would recommend exactly the same course of action."... That same "I'd do it the same way again today" approach prevailed in Cheney's interview Wednesday [when asked if] it was a good idea to put the shooting story out—slowly—through hunting host Katharine Armstrong rather than through the White House Press Office, Cheney said: "I still do."
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