Rocky Mountain News editor targets Editor & Publisher as leftist rant:
[E&P editor] Mitchell is mistaking standard opinion journalism for media criticism. There are plenty of places to debate the right approach to Iraq or to the current Mideast Crisis, but what he's doing is not media criticism.
Even if he's going to wear his politics on his sleeve, he should be taking on the quality of the reporting, not recounting his unhappiness with the editorial positions of journalists or newspapers. At a minimum, he should have his Web site provide an opposing view. But what he should really do to make his publication relevant is critique journalism, not tell us what he thinks newspapers should be saying on their editorial pages or in their columns.
Now. In this presumed media-critique blog, do you find positionism leaking in? That’s entirely possible, but this editor’s slam at the E&P man serves as a good reminder not to let it do so. (Hat tip to Romenesko)
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