(From the diaries. Congrats to the folks at Greater Boston, including Boston University's John Carroll and Emily Rooney for becoming national poster children for everything that is wrong with the traditional media -- arrogance, non-accountability, and lack of fealty to things like "truth" -- kos.)
Here's the mea culpa: qt video
This has already been diaried once, but the author came to the exact opposite conclusion that I did, so I thought I'd offer my analysis of the "mea culpa" show.
Short version of the show:
"We're sorry for the factual error we made, even though it's not our fault because the "satirical" post was neither satirical nor funny (with Emily Rooney even calling it "stupid".) As for quoting out of context, we're kinda disagree about whether or not we even did that. And the story itself? We still stand by it whole-heartedly, and if the NY Times got the story wrong, it's hardly our job to criticize the NY Times, even though we are a show about criticizing the media."
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